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Infant Mental Health Journal,Volume 39, Issue 2, Page 123-133, March/April 2018. (Source: Infant Mental Health Journal)
Source: Infant Mental Health Journal - February 20, 2018 Category: Child Development Source Type: research
Early parenting support and information: a consumer perspective
Infant Mental Health Journal,Volume 39, Issue 2, Page 145-152, March/April 2018. (Source: Infant Mental Health Journal)
Source: Infant Mental Health Journal - January 27, 2018 Category: Child Development Source Type: research
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Infant Mental Health Journal,Volume 39, Issue 2, Page 145-152, March/April 2018. (Source: Infant Mental Health Journal)
Source: Infant Mental Health Journal - January 27, 2018 Category: Child Development Source Type: research
Ignoring children's bedtime crying: the power of western ‐oriented beliefs
ABSTRACT
Ignoring children's bedtime crying (ICBC) is an issue that polarizes parents as well as pediatricians. While most studies have focused on the effectiveness of sleep interventions, no study has yet questioned which parents use ICBC. Parents often find children's sleep difficulties to be very challenging, but factors such as the influence of Western approaches to infant care, stress, and sensitivity have not been analyzed in terms of ICBC. A sample of 586 parents completed a questionnaire to investigate the relationships between parental factors and the method of ICBC. Data were analyzed using structural equation mo...
Source: Infant Mental Health Journal - January 1, 2018 Category: Child Development Authors: MONIQUE MAUTE, SONJA PERREN Tags: ARTICLE Source Type: research
Development of the parent ‐child play scale for use in children with feeding disorders
ABSTRACT
The Parent‐Child Play Scale was developed as a scale that complements the Parent‐Child Feeding Scale, created by I. Chatoor et al. (1997), to evaluate mother–infant/toddler interactions in two different caregiving contexts of a young child's everyday life, specifically play and feeding. This Play Scale can be used with infants and toddlers ranging in age from 1 month to 3 years and provides reliable global ratings of mother–child interactions during 10 min of videotaped free‐play in a laboratory setting. The scale consists of 32 mother and infant/toddler interactive behaviors which are rated by train...
Source: Infant Mental Health Journal - January 1, 2018 Category: Child Development Authors: IRENE CHATOOR, SUSANNE HOMMEL, CRISTINA SECHI, LOREDANA LUCARELLI Tags: ARTICLE Source Type: research
Temperamental adaptability, persistence, and regularity: parental ratings of norwegian infants aged 6 to 12 months, with some implications for preventive practice
ABSTRACT
There is a need for standardized measures of infant temperament to strengthen current practices in prevention and early intervention. The present study provides Norwegian data on the Cameron‐Rice Infant Temperament Questionnaire (CRITQ; J.R. Cameron & D.C. Rice, 1986a), which comprises 46 items and is used within a U.S. health maintenance organization. The CRITQ was filled out by mothers and fathers at 6 and again at 12 months as part of a longitudinal study of mental health during the first years of life (the “Little in Norway” study, N = 1,041 families enrolled; V. Moe & L. Smith, 2010). Results ...
Source: Infant Mental Health Journal - January 1, 2018 Category: Child Development Authors: K ÅRE S. OLAFSEN, Stein Erik Ulvund, Anne Mari Torgersen, Tore Wentzel‐Larsen, Lars Smith, Vibeke Moe Tags: ARTICLE Source Type: research
Food neglect and infant development
ABSTRACT
The impact of food insecurity on child development in the general U.S. population is well‐established, yet little is known about the harm of food neglect relative to other types of maltreatment. Due to the harmful physiological impact of inadequate nutrients and the social impact of food‐related stress, it was hypothesized that food neglect would be more likely to impair infant cognitive and language development than physical abuse, sexual abuse, and other forms of neglect. Families of infants (N = 1,951) investigated by Child Protective Services were studied using the second cohort of the National Survey of C...
Source: Infant Mental Health Journal - January 1, 2018 Category: Child Development Authors: JESSE J. HELTON, THEODORE P. CROSS, MICHAEL G. VAUGHN, TATIANA GOCHEZ ‐KERR Tags: ARTICLE Source Type: research
Predictors of self ‐reported gains in a relationship‐based home‐visiting project for mothers after childbirth
ABSTRACT
We assessed mothers’ self‐reported gains from a postpartum home‐visiting (HV) project in which home visitors are volunteer mothers from the community. Hypotheses were that gains are positively related to (a) mothers’ felt‐closeness with their home visitor, (b) mothers’ level of sociodemographic risk, and (c) the home visitors’ preproject training in support services for families or children (Professionalism). One hundred sixty‐four clients returned written evaluations of the HV project. Items assessing gains were reduced to two factors: Improved Well‐Being (“Self”) and Improved Infant Care (...
Source: Infant Mental Health Journal - January 1, 2018 Category: Child Development Authors: MARSHA KAITZ, MIRIAM CHRIKI, NAOMI TESSLER, JUDITH LEVY Tags: ARTICLE Source Type: research
Early parenting support and information: a consumer perspective
This study takes a consumer‐focused approach to examine the needs and preferences of parents both prenatally (n = 77) and postnatally (n = 123) for parenting support. The study used a cross‐sectional design with a purpose‐built online survey. Parents were recruited via online forums, Facebook and parenting blogs, childcare centers, and playgroups. In general, all parents were satisfied with their current levels of both formal and informal support, and about one fourth of parents had accessed a parenting intervention. Parents expressed a moderate level of interest in additional parenting information, and parents expec...
Source: Infant Mental Health Journal - January 1, 2018 Category: Child Development Authors: ALINA MORAWSKA, KATE WESTON, COURTNEY BOWD Tags: ARTICLE Source Type: research
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Source: Infant Mental Health Journal - January 1, 2018 Category: Child Development Tags: Issue Information – TOC Source Type: research
Understanding the connection between attachment trauma and maternal self ‐efficacy in depressed mothers
This study proposed a model in which postpartum depression mediates the relation between attachment trauma and maternal self‐efficacy, with emotional support as a moderator. Participants were 278 first‐time mothers of infants under 14 months. Cross‐sectional data were collected online. Mothers completed questionnaires on attachment trauma, maternal self‐efficacy, postpartum depression, and emotional support. A moderated mediation model was tested in a structural equation modeling framework using Mplus’ estimate of indirect effects. Postpartum depression fully mediated the relation between trauma and maternal self...
Source: Infant Mental Health Journal - December 27, 2017 Category: Child Development Authors: NATALIE BRAZEAU, SAMANTHA REISZ, DEBORAH JACOBVITZ, CAROL GEORGE Tags: ARTICLE Source Type: research
Parental childhood adversity, depressive symptoms, and parenting quality: effects on toddler self ‐regulation in child welfare services involved families
ABSTRACT
Parents who are involved with child welfare services (CWSI) often have a history of childhood adversity and depressive symptoms. Both affect parenting quality, which in turn influences child adaptive functioning. We tested a model of the relations between parental depression and child regulatory outcomes first proposed by K. Lyons‐Ruth, R. Wolfe, A. Lyubchik, and R. Steingard (2002). We hypothesized that both parental depression and parenting quality mediate the effects of parental early adversity on offspring regulatory outcomes. Participants were 123 CWSI parents and their toddlers assessed three times over a ...
Source: Infant Mental Health Journal - December 20, 2017 Category: Child Development Authors: Susan J. Spieker, Monica L. Oxford, Charles B. Fleming, Mary Jane Lohr Tags: ARTICLE Source Type: research
Top ‐down and bottom‐up: the role of social information processing and mindfulness as predictors in maternal–infant interaction
ABSTRACT
The cross‐generational transmission of attachment appears to reflect a complex interplay of factors, which have been challenging to identify. The current longitudinal study explored the maternal cognitive model of relationships through language use, maternal mindfulness, and attachment style assessed prenatally, as predictors of maternal response to distress and infant behavior at 6 months’ postpartum. Infant behavior to the mother also was examined to provide an understanding of the evolving relationship. Thirty‐two females were interviewed prenatally regarding social and family experiences. At 6 months...
Source: Infant Mental Health Journal - December 20, 2017 Category: Child Development Authors: Judy A. Pickard, Michelle L. Townsend, Peter Caputi, Brin F.S. Grenyer Tags: ARTICLE Source Type: research
Safe start: an early childhood mental health program in a tertiary healthcare setting —a critical review
ABSTRACT
Early childhood mental health programs are vital for the current and future mental health and brain development of infants, toddlers, and preschoolers. Founded in 2014, Safe Start is the only early childhood mental health program in Beirut, Lebanon. It aims at being the prototype of such services at the national level. A retrospective analysis of the outcomes of the first year of operations has resulted in important findings about the age of the participants, their diagnoses, previous therapies that the participants have undergone, types of referrals recommended, and the number of participants who were lost to fol...
Source: Infant Mental Health Journal - December 20, 2017 Category: Child Development Authors: JULIEN DIRANI, HALA RAAD, LEYLA AKOURY ‐DIRANI Tags: ARTICLE Source Type: research
Father play: is it special?
ABSTRACT
Both mothers and fathers play with their children, but research on parent–child play interactions is conducted with mothers three times more often than it is with fathers. The articles in this special issue address this gap by focusing on the nature and quality of father–child play, across cultural contexts, and considering whether father play offers something unique and special for early human development, in infancy or early childhood. The studies show that fathers can be just as developmentally supportive as are mothers in terms of being playful and engaged with their children in ways that are related to gr...
Source: Infant Mental Health Journal - November 9, 2017 Category: Child Development Authors: Natasha J. Cabrera, Lori Roggman Tags: ARTICLE Source Type: research
