Video Interaction Guidance (VIG) is a relationship-based, effective intervention that uses video clips of authentic interactions to enhance communication and strengthen relationships between parents and carers of children across all ages (including babies and unborn babies, children and young people), and with adults. A VIG practitioner films a brief interaction, then selects positive moments and reviews them with the client to highlight their strengths, increase understanding of the other person’s cues, and build skills for more effective and positive communication, relationships and outcomes.
VIG has a strong theoretical base: attachment, co-operative shared understanding, shaping and enriching experiences and positive psychology. VIG is client-centred, moving at the clients’ pace, with their goals in mind.
The evidence base for Video Interaction Guidance is international. VIG is recommended as an evidence-based intervention in the NICE guidelines: high level studies (RCT or QED) show that parents receiving VIG score significantly higher on sensitivity, warmth and parent-infant bonding, have increased confidence and are less anxious and depressed.
Parents are supported by a VIG Practitioner to view and reflect together on strengths-based micro-moments of video. Parents are asked: ‘What is it that you are doing that is making a difference?’
Through this process of active engagement and reflection, parents become aware of, and build on, their skills in attunement.
