THE PSYCHOLOGY OF BABIES: HOW RELATIONSHIPS SUPPORT DEVELOPMENT FROM BIRTH TO TWO. LYNNE MURRAY, London: Constable & Robinson, Ltd., 2014, 256 pp, ISBN: 978‐1‐84901‐293‐5
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Source: Infant Mental Health Journal - March 1, 2015 Category: Child Development Authors: Ira Glovinsky Tags: BOOK REVIEW Source Type: research
Emotional attachment and emotional availability tele‐intervention for adoptive families
This study evaluated the new online Emotional Attachment and Emotional Availability (EA2) Intervention for use with adoptive families in enhancing parent–child EA, parental perceptions of EA, child attachment behaviors, parent–child emotional attachment, and reducing parent‐reported child behavioral problems and parenting‐related stress. Participants in this study were adoptive parents and their adopted children ages 1.5 to 5 years old (N = 15 dyads). Participants were placed in an immediate intervention group (IG) or a delayed intervention group (DG) that would receive the 6‐week EA2 Tele‐Intervention after th...
Source: Infant Mental Health Journal - February 20, 2015 Category: Child Development Authors: Megan Baker, Zeynep Biringen, Beatrice Meyer‐Parsons, Abby Schneider Tags: ARTICLE Source Type: research
Six‐month‐old infants’ interaction difficulties are mirrored in their preference for perfect contingencies
We presented 117 6‐month‐olds with real‐time and delayed video feedback of self‐performed leg movements and asked parents about difficulties in various socioemotional domains. It was hypothesized that the more infants prefer real‐time and therefore perfect contingent feedback over 7 s delayed and therefore perceived noncontingent feedback, the more difficulties parents will report in interaction and communication with their child. Preference for real‐time feedback was related to difficulties in interaction, but not to difficulties in communication. Implications of this finding for infants’ socioemotional deve...
Source: Infant Mental Health Journal - February 12, 2015 Category: Child Development Authors: Norbert Zmyj, Sarah Klein‐Radukic Tags: ARTICLE Source Type: research
The alliance in reflective supervision: a commentary on tomlin, weatherston, and pavkov's critical components of reflective supervision
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What are the critical components of reflective supervision? In this commentary, I offer a complementary perspective on A.M. Tomlin, D.J. Weatherston, and T. Pavkov's (2014) seminal study about that very question. I consider their findings within the context of what we now know about the supervisory alliance—a highly robust, heuristic, and eminently practical construct that appears to capture the spirit of reflection, collaboration, and regularity at its best. Matters of alliance theory, practice, and research are briefly addressed, and effort is made to consider the implications of the supervisory alliance as fu...
Source: Infant Mental Health Journal - January 12, 2015 Category: Child Development Authors: C. Edward Watkins Tags: BRIEF COMMENTARY Source Type: research
Shared pleasure in early mother–infant interaction: predicting lower levels of emotional and behavioral problems in the child and protecting against the influence of parental psychopathology
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Shared pleasure (SP) was analyzed in fifty‐eight 2‐month‐old infants and their mothers in face‐to‐face interaction (T1, at 2 months). The association of SP with child's emotional and behavioral outcome at 2 years (T2) was examined. SP as a possible protecting factor in the presence of parental psychopathology also was studied. Mean duration of SP moments (SP‐MD) was related to subsequent socioemotional outcome of the child: Infants of dyads with longer SP‐MD showed fewer internalizing and externalizing problems 2 years later. In hierarchical linear regressions, SP‐MD uniquely and significantly cont...
Source: Infant Mental Health Journal - January 1, 2015 Category: Child Development Authors: Mirjami Mäntymaa, Kaija Puura, Ilona Luoma, Reija Latva, Raili K. Salmelin, Tuula Tamminen Tags: ARTICLE Source Type: research
Parent–infant art psychotherapy: a creative dyadic approach to early intervention
This article explores whether art psychotherapy groups can be an effective intervention for parent–infant dyads who may be involved with social work and health teams due to concerns about their relationship, possibly due to postnatal depression or attachment difficulties. We describe a model of parent–infant art psychotherapy groups and examine some of the key themes in this intervention alongside vignettes of case work and quantitative and qualitative evidence from the evaluations of two such groups. We believe that the Create Together group demonstrates how knowledge from research into infant mental health and attach...
Source: Infant Mental Health Journal - January 1, 2015 Category: Child Development Authors: Victoria Gray Armstrong, Rosie Howatson Tags: ARTICLE Source Type: research
Birth and motherhood: childbirth experience and mothers’ perceptions of themselves and their babies
This study examined the relation between mode of delivery and subjective birth experience (e.g., perception of control, social support during labor and delivery), and mothers’ descriptions of their babies and their maternal self‐esteem, both powerful predictors of maternal caregiving behavior. This study had three questions: (a) Do mode of delivery and subjective birth experience predict mothers’ descriptions of their babies and maternal self‐esteem? (b) Are the effects of mode of delivery on mothers’ descriptions and maternal self‐esteem mediated by subjective birth experience? (c) Does infant age moderate any...
Source: Infant Mental Health Journal - January 1, 2015 Category: Child Development Authors: Samantha Reisz, Deborah Jacobvitz, Carol George Tags: ARTICLE Source Type: research
Intergenerational transmission of attachment in abused and neglected mothers: the role of trauma‐specific reflective functioning
This study examined the contributions of reflective function concerning general attachment relationships, and specifically concerning trauma, as well as those of maternal attachment states of mind to the prediction of infant attachment disorganization in a sample of mothers with CA&N and their infants, using a 20‐month follow‐up design. Attachment and reflective functioning were assessed during pregnancy with the Adult Attachment Interview. Infant attachment was evaluated with the Strange Situation Procedure. The majority (83%) of infants of abused and neglected mothers were classified as insecure, and a significan...
Source: Infant Mental Health Journal - January 1, 2015 Category: Child Development Authors: Nicolas Berthelot, Karin Ensink, Odette Bernazzani, Lina Normandin, Patrick Luyten, Peter Fonagy Tags: ARTICLE Source Type: research
Emotional readiness: how early experience and mental health predict school success
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Source: Infant Mental Health Journal - January 1, 2015 Category: Child Development Authors: Terrie Rose Tags: BOOK REVIEW Source Type: research
Collaborative consultation with parents and infants in the perinatal period
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Source: Infant Mental Health Journal - January 1, 2015 Category: Child Development Authors: Zack Boukydis Tags: BOOK REVIEW Source Type: research
Maternal abuse history, postpartum depression, and parenting: links with preschoolers’ internalizing problems
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The current study examined a temporal cascade linking mothers’ history of abuse with their children's internalizing difficulties through proximal processes such as maternal postnatal depressive symptoms and responsive parenting. Participants consisted of 490 mother–child dyads assessed at three time points when children were, on average, 2 months old at Time 1 (T1), 18 months at Time 2 (T2), and 36 months at Time 3 (T3). Maternal abuse history and depressive symptoms were assessed via questionnaires at T1. Observations of responsive parenting were collected at T2 and were coded using a validated coding scheme....
Source: Infant Mental Health Journal - January 1, 2015 Category: Child Development Authors: Sheri Madigan, Mark Wade, Andre Plamondon, Jennifer Jenkins Tags: ARTICLE Source Type: research
Influence of mother's depression on her reports of father involvement and child behavioral problems: a latent state‐trait approach
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Research on father involvement has shown positive effects on child development. Because fathers in high social risk samples may be hard to recruit or retain in studies, the literature often has relied on maternal report of father involvement. A major limitation of this approach is that unobserved traits of the reporting mothers may distort the real associations between father involvement and children's development. Using maternal data from a large, longitudinal sample (N = 704) of low‐income, young mothers, we evaluated the degree to which a stable depressive trait affected the link between mother‐reported mea...
Source: Infant Mental Health Journal - December 13, 2014 Category: Child Development Authors: Maryna Raskin, Nathan E. Fosse, M. Ann Easterbrooks Tags: ARTICLE Source Type: research
Through the eyes of a new dad: experiences of first‐time fathers of late‐preterm infants
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Fathers of late‐preterm (34–36 weeks’ gestation) infants may experience challenges in parenting. Late‐preterm infants are more irritable and less responsive in interactions. The unexpected early birth of an infant may negatively affect fathers’ cognitive and emotional experiences. The Father–Infant Interaction Program (FIIP) is a video‐modeled play intervention that aims to increase fathers’ sensitivity and responsiveness to infant cues. Using data from a larger randomized controlled trial (RCT) to evaluate FIIP, the purpose of the present study was to explore the experiences of first‐time father...
Source: Infant Mental Health Journal - December 12, 2014 Category: Child Development Authors: Karen M. Benzies, Joyce Magill‐Evans Tags: ARTICLE Source Type: research
Prospective fathers’ adverse childhood experiences, pregnancy‐related anxiety, and depression during pregnancy
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There is a growing knowledge of the predictors of depressive or anxious feelings during pregnancy among prospective fathers, and the present study investigates how paternal adverse childhood experiences relate to anxious and depressive feelings during pregnancy. Participants were recruited to “The Little in Norway Study (LIN‐study)” (2010) at different well‐baby clinics in Norway; 976 fathers consented to participate in the study, of which 881 had valid data for adverse childhood experiences. The study reports on the relationship between the Adverse Childhood Experience Scale (ACE Scale; R.F. Anda, A. Butc...
Source: Infant Mental Health Journal - December 1, 2014 Category: Child Development Authors: Thomas Skjothaug, Lars Smith, Tore Wentzel‐Larsen, Vibeke Moe Tags: ARTICLE Source Type: research
Enhancing maternal sensitivity and infant attachment security with video feedback: an exploratory study in italy
This study aims to explore whether a short‐term and attachment‐based video‐feedback intervention, the Video‐Feedback Intervention to Promote Positive Parenting With Discussions on the Representational Level (VIPP‐R; F. Juffer, M.J. Bakermans‐Kranenburg, & M.H. van IJzendoorn, 2008), might be effective in enhancing maternal sensitivity and in promoting infants’ attachment security in an Italian sample of dyads with primiparous mothers. Moreover, we explore whether the effectiveness of VIPP‐R might be different for parents with insecure attachment representations who might be most in need of preventive in...
Source: Infant Mental Health Journal - December 1, 2014 Category: Child Development Authors: Rosalinda Cassibba, Germana Castoro, Elisabetta Costantino, Giovanna Sette, Marinus H. Van Ijzendoorn Tags: ARTICLE Source Type: research
