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Why do children need containment? What is containment?

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Challenges

Differianting own feelings from those absorbed by the young person

Counter transference

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The 'container'  is a key person in a childs life who is able to acknowledge and accept a childs distress.
The child's thoughts and feelings are 'contained' by the adult

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Containment is a very simple but powerful concept in child development, which gives rise to a way of offering practical support to children through an awareness of their emotional distress.

There are two basic elements:

The 'container' - this is an adult - usually a key person in the child's life - who is able to acknowledge and accept a child's distress and makes experiences safe for them by offering a way, temporarily, to relieve the child of their anxieties, until they are able to understand and control them themselves.

All the thoughts and feelings that give rise to fears and anxieties and which prevent a child from understanding and managing their own feelings are 'contained' by the adult.

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Containment theory developed by Wilfred Bion – Bion’s theory (1959, 1962) explains how a mother receives unwanted and/or overwhelming projections from an infant, processes them and then returns the experience to the infant in a modified, palatable form. This process also allows a child to express emotion while keeping them safe. It also refers to the way the mother handles infant’s projection of painful, angry, unbearable feelings, returning them to the child in a modified, contained way. The therapist provides a similar function helping the client work through their emotions with a reflective, ‘Adult’ therapist. In this way the client learns to think through and understand their emotional experience and to contain their own feelings. 

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Containment theory developed by Wilfred Bion – Bion’s theory (1959, 1962) explains how a mother receives unwanted and/or overwhelming projections from an infant, processes them and then returns the experience to the infant in a modified, palatable form. This process also allows a child to express emotion while keeping them safe. It also refers to the way the mother handles infant’s projection of painful, angry, unbearable feelings, returning them to the child in a modified, contained way. The therapist provides a similar function helping the client work through their emotions with a reflective, ‘Adult’ therapist. In this way the client learns to think through and understand their emotional experience and to contain their own feelings. 

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http://relational-integrative-psychotherapy.uk/wp-content/uploads/2015/02/Chapter-5-Therapeutic-Holding-and-Containing-handout.pdf#

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Purpose of containment is turning a situation from an overwhelming one to one that is manageable and keeps people safe

It offers practical support to children by giving them an understanding of their emptipnal distress.