Bonding and visual impairment by Christelle Gosme
Christelle Gosme
2009 Award: Bonding and visual impairment
Clinical psychologist, Christelle Gosme practices part-time in the paedopsychiatric department of Necker Hospital in Paris: consultations, psychological assessments, monitoring children, etc. In addition, she is pursuing work on her thesis for the PILE project initiated by Professors Bernard Golse and Valérie Desjardins, the topic of which is “Bonding and visual impairment”.
She is more specifically interested in the bond between the baby and its blind or visually impaired mother but also in the mother’s own perception of bonding. In the same way, Christelle Gosme seeks to answer the following question: does blindness or visual impairment have an influence on bonding?
The project also attempts to identify processes that are specific to visually impaired mothers and their normal sighted babies in establishing the first stages of bonding between mother and baby. The results of this work will enable enlightening health professionals in how to provide the necessary care for this population and their children.
