The information in this program outline is provided by the program representative and edited by the CEBC staff. The SPIN Video Home Training (SPIN VHT) program has been reviewed by the CEBC in the area of: Parent Training, but lacks the necessary research evidence to be given a Scientific Rating.

• Types of Maltreatment: Physical Abuse, Sexual Abuse, Physical Neglect, Emotional Abuse, Exposure to Domestic Violence
• Target Population: At-risk children and families, families in conflict, foster parents/children, and adoptive families.

SPIN VHT is a home visiting program that targets the relational skills of abusive/neglectful/at-risk parents. It can operate as a stand-alone program, or be integrated into existing parent education/support programs. The model is informed by attachment theory, theories of primary intersubjectivity, learning theory, and adult learning principles.

SPIN VHT was developed in the Netherlands in the early 1980s and disseminated across that country with ten years of government funding. SPIN Institutes, located in approximately ten countries in Europe, Eastern Europe, the Middle East, and North America, including the US, oversee the model’s fidelity and development.

SPIN VHT practitioners videotape parent-child interactions and offer strengths-based self-modeling feedback using carefully edited video samples of parents' successful interactions with their children. Interactions are analyzed, and feedback plans are designed, using a process that focuses on creating sustained patterns of successful interactions to improve relational skills and meet goals jointly developed by parent and practitioner within the context of broader program goals.

Guided by the SPIN VHT practitioner, parents are taught to:

• see their capacity to be ‘good’ parents
• identify and better use their strengths
• build on those strengths to add new skills and accomplish parenting goals
• adopt these patterns of behavior leading to healthy relationships, healthy attachment and good developmental outcomes for their children.