Early moral conscience: the development of a moral short played stories procedure
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We set up a cross‐sectional study to investigate how moral core self's mental representations develop from age 3 to 6 years. An ad hoc instrument (Moral Short Played Stories Procedure; MSPSP) was developed to tap into how moral emotions, conducts, and cognitions referred to moral and nonmoral characters. A total of 143 preschoolers completed the MSPSP and moral dilemmas procedures, together with attachment and behavioral inhibition assessment. The main results confirm the hypothesis of a mild developmental trend characterized by the prominence of moral conduct over moral emotion and cognition. In addition, our r...
Source: Infant Mental Health Journal - March 1, 2017 Category: Child Development Authors: Giampaolo Nicolais, Sara Fazeli ‐Fariz Hendi, Camilla Modesti, Fabio Presaghi Tags: ARTICLE Source Type: research
HANDBOOK OF INFANT BIOPSYCHOSOCIAL DEVELOPMENT SUSAN D. CALKINS New York: Guilford Press, 2015, 480 pp., ISBN: 978 ‐1‐4625‐2212‐5
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Source: Infant Mental Health Journal - March 1, 2017 Category: Child Development Authors: Mary G. Warren Tags: BOOK REVIEW Source Type: research
Observing the influence of mindfulness and attachment styles through mother and infant interaction: a longitudinal study
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The cross‐generational influence of attachment security or insecurity on caregiving is well‐established. Recently, research has focused on mindfulness as a potential variable to interrupt the transmission of insecure attachment and disrupt its effect across generations. Thirty‐six pregnant female participants completed the Five Facets Mindfulness Questionnaire and Relationship Questionnaire‐Clinical Version at 30 weeks’ gestation. Following the infant's birth, mothers and their babies participated in a video‐recorded feeding session at 7 to 10 weeks’ postpartum. It was predicted that a secure attachm...
Source: Infant Mental Health Journal - March 1, 2017 Category: Child Development Authors: Judy A. Pickard, Michelle Townsend, Peter Caputi, Brin F. S. Grenyer Tags: ARTICLE Source Type: research
A preliminary evaluation of the managing youth trauma effectively program for substance ‐abusing women and their children
This article provides a description of the development, implementation, and preliminary evaluation of feasibility and acceptability of the Managing Youth Trauma Effectively (MYTE) program and highlights perceptions of changes in mothers’ trauma‐informed parenting practices. The program consists of a training and consultation program for staff of the U.S. State of Arkansas’ Specialized Women's Programs (SWS), and an 8‐week, group psychoeducational program designed to help mothers with substance‐abuse problems learn how traumatic experiences may affect their children and how they may help support their children by ...
Source: Infant Mental Health Journal - March 1, 2017 Category: Child Development Authors: KARIN L. Vanderzee, Sufna G. John, Nicola Edge, Joy R. Pemberton, Teresa L. Kramer Tags: ARTICLE Source Type: research
Antenatal determinants of parental attachment and parenting alliance: how do mothers and fathers differ?
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Source: Infant Mental Health Journal - March 1, 2017 Category: Child Development Authors: Rita Luz, Astrid George, Rachel Vieux, Elisabeth Spitz Tags: ERRATUM Source Type: research
Reflective functioning and personality organization: associations with negative maternal behaviors
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The aim of this study was to examine whether mothers who manifest insensitive and disconnected behaviors in interaction with their infants differ in terms of maternal reflective functioning (RF), personality organization, and histories of abuse. A total of 86 mother–infant dyads, 28 of them with histories of abuse, participated in the study. RF was assessed with the Adult Attachment Interview (C. George, N. Kaplan, & M. Main, 1985), and personality organization was assessed with the self‐report Inventory of Personality Organization (M.F. Lenzenweger, J.F. Clarkin, O.F. Kernberg, & P.A. Foelsh, 2001; L....
Source: Infant Mental Health Journal - March 1, 2017 Category: Child Development Authors: Karin Ensink, Marie ‐eve Rousseau, Marko Biberdzic, Michaël Bégin, Lina Normandin Tags: ARTICLE Source Type: research
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Source: Infant Mental Health Journal - February 28, 2017 Category: Child Development Tags: Issue Information – TOC Source Type: research
Unpacking the burden of care for infants in the nicu
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Infants who begin early life in the medicalized environment of the neonatal intensive care unit (NICU) experience disruption to numerous fundamental expectancies. In the NICU, infants are exposed to chronic, extreme stressors that include painful medical procedures and parental separation. Due to their preverbal stage of development, infants are unable to fully express these experiences, and linking these experiences to long‐term outcomes has been difficult. This clinical article proposes the terminology Infant Medical Trauma in the NICU (IMTN) to describe the infant experience. Following a discussion of the NIC...
Source: Infant Mental Health Journal - February 24, 2017 Category: Child Development Authors: Amy L. D'Agata, Marilyn R. Sanders, Damion J. Grasso, Erin E. Young, Xiaomei Cong, Jacqueline M. Mcgrath Tags: CLINICAL PERSPECTIVES Source Type: research
Psychometric properties of the alabama parenting questionnaire adapted to families of chilean preschoolers
This study evaluates the psychometric properties of an adapted version of the APQ for its use with parents of children between 2 and 6 years of age in Chile. The participants were 557 parents of children aged 2 to 6 years. A confirmatory factor analysis showed that the best fit was obtained by a four‐factor model (positive reinforcement, parental involvement, inconsistency of disciplinary practices, and punitive practices). The invariance analysis for this model by sex and social composition was positive. Disciplinary inconsistency and punitive practices were correlated with externalized and internalized behaviors in chi...
Source: Infant Mental Health Journal - February 24, 2017 Category: Child Development Authors: F élix Cova, Claudio Bustos, Paulina Rincón, David L. Streiner, Pamela Grandón, Sandra Saldivia, Carolina Inostroza, Gisela Contreras Tags: ARTICLE Source Type: research
Best practice in individual supervision of psychologists working in the french capedp preventive perinatal home ‐visiting program: results of a delphi consensus process
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Individual supervision of home‐visiting professionals has proved to be a key element for perinatal home‐visiting programs. Although studies have been published concerning quality criteria for supervision in North American contexts, little is known about this subject in other national settings. In the context of the CAPEDP program (Compétences parentales et Attachement dans la Petite Enfance: Diminution des risques liés aux troubles de santé mentale et Promotion de la résilience; Parental Skills and Attachment in Early Childhood: Reducing Mental Health Risks and Promoting Resilience), the first randomized c...
Source: Infant Mental Health Journal - February 24, 2017 Category: Child Development Authors: Tim Greacen, Bertrand Welniarz, Diane Purper ‐ouakil, Jaqueline Wendland, Romain Dugravier, Thomas Saïas, Susana Tereno, Florence Tubach, Alain Haddad, Antoine Guedeney, Tags: ARTICLE Source Type: research
Impact of a support group for the caregivers at an orphanage in turkey
This study examined the effectiveness of a 20‐session training and supervision support group for caregivers working at an orphanage in Istanbul. The support group's goals were to promote sensitive and responsive caregiving in an institutional setting, to decrease the stress level of the caregivers, and to increase the quality of the relationship between caregivers and children. Thirty‐six children (15–37 months) and 24 caregivers participated in this study. Comparison of the pre‐ and posttest measures of the caregiver intervention and control groups indicated that the intervention yielded successful outcomes. Careg...
Source: Infant Mental Health Journal - February 24, 2017 Category: Child Development Authors: Zeynep Çatay, Dilşad Koloğlugil Tags: ARTICLE Source Type: research
Secure base script content explains the association between attachment avoidance and emotion ‐related constructs in parents of young children
This study examines the associations between attachment avoidance and SBS content when parents recall a positive moment of connection between themselves and their children (relational savoring) as well as their association with parental emotion and reflective functioning (RF). Using a sample of parents (N = 155, 92% female) of young children (53% boys, Mage = 12.76 months), we found that parental attachment avoidance is inversely associated with SBS content during relational savoring, and that SBS content is an indirect effect explaining the association between attachment avoidance and postsavoring (positive and negative) ...
Source: Infant Mental Health Journal - February 14, 2017 Category: Child Development Authors: Jessica L. Borelli, Margaret L. Burkhart, Hannah F. Rasmussen, Robin Brody, David A. Sbarra Tags: ARTICLE Source Type: research
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Source: Infant Mental Health Journal - January 1, 2017 Category: Child Development Tags: ERRATUM Source Type: research
Associations between early maternal depressive symptom trajectories and toddlers ’ felt security at 18 months: are boys and girls at differential risk?
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The goal of this study was to evaluate whether there are sex differences in children's vulnerability to caregiving risk, as indexed by trajectories of maternal depressive symptoms assessed from 2 to 18 months’ postpartum, and children's rated attachment security in toddlerhood, adjusting for maternal social support and demographic risk. Analyses utilized longitudinal data collected for 182 African American mother–child dyads from economically diverse backgrounds. Participants were recruited at the time of the child's birth and followed to 18 months’ postpartum. Results of conditional latent growth models ind...
Source: Infant Mental Health Journal - January 1, 2017 Category: Child Development Authors: Marjorie Beeghly, Ty Partridge, Ed Tronick, Maria Muzik, Mahya Rahimian Mashhadi, Jordan L. Boeve, Jessica L. Irwin Tags: ARTICLE Source Type: research
Beyond the dyad: the relationship between preschoolers ’ attachment representations and family triadic interactions
This study examines the relationship between triadic family interactions and preschoolers’ attachment representations, or internal working models (IWMs), from a qualitative and dimensional perspective. Individual, relational, and sociocultural variables were evaluated using two different samples. The results showed that triadic family interactions were linked to preschoolers’ attachment security levels in both groups, indicating the reliability of the proposed model. (Source: Infant Mental Health Journal)
Source: Infant Mental Health Journal - December 31, 2016 Category: Child Development Authors: Francisca P érez C., Markus Moessner, María Pía Santelices A. Tags: ARTICLE Source Type: research
