Disorganization, fear and attachment: working towards clarification
ABSTRACT
In 1990, M. Main and J. Solomon introduced the procedures for coding a new “disorganized” infant attachment classification for the Ainsworth Strange Situation procedure (M.D.S. Ainsworth, M. Blehar, E. Waters, & S. Wall, 1978). This classification has received a high degree of interest, both from researchers and from child welfare and clinical practitioners. Disorganized attachment has primarily been understood through the lens of E. Hesse and M. Main's concept of “fright without solution,” taken to mean that an infant experiences a conflict between a desire to approach and flee from a frightening pare...
Source: Infant Mental Health Journal - November 1, 2017 Category: Child Development Authors: ROBBIE DUSCHINSKY Tags: ARTICLE Source Type: research
Strong military families intervention enhances parenting reflectivity and representations in families with young children
ABSTRACT
Military families face many challenges due to deployment and parental separation, and this can be especially difficult for families with young children. The Strong Military Families (SMF) intervention is for military families with young children, and consists of two versions: the Multifamily Group, and a Home‐based psychoeducational written materials program. The Multifamily Group was designed to enhance positive parenting through both educational components and in vivo feedback and support during separations and reunions between parents and children (n = 78 parents). In the present study, we examine parenting r...
Source: Infant Mental Health Journal - November 1, 2017 Category: Child Development Authors: M.M. JULIAN, M. MUZIK, M. KEES, M. VALENSTEIN, K. L. ROSENBLUM Tags: ARTICLE Source Type: research
Implementation of an evidenced ‐based parenting program in a community mental health setting
ABSTRACT
The process of mental health intervention implementation with vulnerable populations is not well‐described in the literature. The authors worked as a community‐partnered team to adapt and pilot an empirically supported intervention program for mothers of infants and toddlers in an outpatient mental health clinic that primarily serves a low‐income community. We used qualitative ethnographic methods to document the adaption of an evidence‐based intervention, Mothering from the Inside Out, and the pilot implementation in a community mental health clinic. Seventeen mothers and their identified 0‐ to 84‐mon...
Source: Infant Mental Health Journal - November 1, 2017 Category: Child Development Authors: Monica Roosa Ordway, Thomas J. Mcmahon, Lourdes De Las Heras Kuhn, Nancy E. Suchman Tags: ARTICLE Source Type: research
Therapists ’ experiences of mother–infant psychoanalytic treatment: a qualitative study
ABSTRACT
As part of a larger research project in Sweden, a qualitative study investigated psychotherapists’ experiences of mother–infant psychoanalysis (MIP). A randomized controlled trial compared two groups of mother–infant dyads with psychological problems. One had received Child Health Center care, and the other received MIP. Previous articles on long‐term effects have found that mothers who had received MIP were less depressed throughout a posttreatment period of 3½ years, and their children showed better global functioning and psychological well‐being. The present study's objectives were to describe the th...
Source: Infant Mental Health Journal - November 1, 2017 Category: Child Development Authors: Majlis Winberg Salomonsson, Mia Barimani Tags: ARTICLE Source Type: research
A longitudinal, person ‐centered analysis of early head start mothers’ parenting
This study used a person‐centered approach to examine stability and change in parenting typologies across early childhood. Profiles were associated within and across time with contextual covariates, including demographic characteristics, risk factors, and Early Head Start participation. Participants were drawn from the Early Head Start Research and Evaluation Project (N = 2, 876). Parenting profiles were identified based on observed parenting dimensions at 14, 24, and 36 months, and pre‐Kindergarten (pre‐K). Results suggested a four‐profile solution at each time point: Supportive, Lukewarm (14 & 24 months)/Suff...
Source: Infant Mental Health Journal - November 1, 2017 Category: Child Development Authors: KATHERINE W. PASCHALL, ANN M. MASTERGEORGE Tags: ARTICLE Source Type: research
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Source: Infant Mental Health Journal - November 1, 2017 Category: Child Development Tags: Issue Information – TOC Source Type: research
The worldwide burden of infant mental and emotional disorder: report of the task force of the world association for infant mental health
ABSTRACT
Children worldwide experience mental and emotional disorders. Mental disorders occurring among young children, especially infants (birth –3 years), often go unrecognized. Prevalence rates are difficult to determine because of lack of awareness and difficulty assessing and diagnosing young children. Existing data, however, suggest that rates of disorders in young children are comparable to those of older children and adolescents (von Klitzing, Dohnert, Kroll, & Grube, ). The lack of widespread recognition of disorders of infancy is particularly concerning due to the unique positioning of infancy as foundatio...
Source: Infant Mental Health Journal - October 31, 2017 Category: Child Development Authors: Karlen Lyons ‐Ruth, Jody Todd Manly, Kai Von Klitzing, Tuula Tamminen, Robert Emde, Hiram Fitzgerald, Campbell Paul, Miri Keren, Astrid Berg, Maree Foley, Hisako Watanabe Tags: EDITORIAL Source Type: research
The worldwide burden of infant mental and emotional disorder report of the task force of the world association for infant mental health
ABSTRACT
Children worldwide experience mental and emotional disorders. Mental disorders occurring among young children, especially infants (birth –3 years), often go unrecognized. Prevalence rates are difficult to determine because of lack of awareness and difficulty assessing and diagnosing young children. Existing data, however, suggest that rates of disorders in young children are comparable to those of older children and adolescents (von Klitzing, Dohnert, Kroll, & Grube, ). The lack of widespread recognition of disorders of infancy is particularly concerning due to the unique positioning of infancy as foundatio...
Source: Infant Mental Health Journal - October 31, 2017 Category: Child Development Authors: Karlen Lyons ‐Ruth, Jody Todd Manly, Kai Von Klitzing, Tuula Tamminen, Robert Emde, Hiram Fitzgerald, Campbell Paul, Miri Keren, Astrid Berg, Maree Foley, Hisako Watanabe Tags: ARTICLE Source Type: research
Commentary on fathers ’ play: measurement, conceptualization, culture, and connections with child development
ABSTRACT
The diverse set of studies in this special issue on fathers' play includes empirical research from several countries, observational measures of play, and multiple children's outcomes, including language, negativity, social competence, aggression and internalizing problems. The chief conclusion across studies is that the role of paternal play is important in various domains of child development. This is encouraging, yet also disturbing given the results of the State of the World's Fathers: Time for Action report 2017, revealing the low amount of care fathers provide to their children worldwide, relative to mothers....
Source: Infant Mental Health Journal - October 31, 2017 Category: Child Development Authors: MIRJANA MAJDAND ŽIĆ Tags: ARTICLE Source Type: research
Measurement of father –child rough‐and‐tumble play and its relations to child behavior
ABSTRACT
Although there is increasing evidence of paternal influence on child outcomes such as language and cognition, researchers are not yet clear on the features of father–child play that are most valuable in terms of child development. Physical play such as rough and tumble play (RTP) is a favored type of father–child play in Western societies that has been linked to children's socioemotional competence. It is important, therefore, to determine the implications of this play for child development. In this review and meta‐analysis, associations between father–child physical play and child behavior were examined. ...
Source: Infant Mental Health Journal - October 31, 2017 Category: Child Development Authors: JENNIFER STGEORGE, EMILY FREEMAN Tags: ARTICLE Source Type: research
A commentary on the importance of father –child play and children's development
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Source: Infant Mental Health Journal - October 31, 2017 Category: Child Development Authors: Jill M. Popp, Bo Stjerne Thomsen Tags: EDITORIAL Source Type: research
Father –child play during the preschool years and child internalizing behaviors: between robustness and vulnerability
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Play observations with a total of 400 toddlers and preschoolers were videotaped and rated for Intensity and Quality of play with their parents. Parents were asked about perceived stress and personality characteristics (Big 5). Child's motor, cognitive skills, temperament, and internalizing behaviors were assessed. Study 1 investigated the robustness of play across child age and gender, and examined differences between fathers and mothers. Study 2 explored the vulnerability of play with fathers of children born preterm (PT‐fathers) and fathers who had experienced adverse childhoods (AC‐fathers). Study 3 investi...
Source: Infant Mental Health Journal - September 1, 2017 Category: Child Development Authors: Lieselotte Ahnert, Lukas Teufl, Nina Ruiz, Bernhard Piskernik, Barbara Supper, Silke Remiorz, Alexander Gesing, Katja Nowacki Tags: ARTICLE Source Type: research
The magic of play: low ‐income mothers’ and fathers’ playfulness and children's emotion regulation and vocabulary skills
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Using data from a diverse sample of low‐income families who participated in the Early Head Start Research Evaluation Project (n = 73), we explored the association between mothers’ and fathers’ playfulness with toddlers, toddler's affect during play, and children's language and emotion regulation at prekindergarten. There were two main findings. First, fathers’ playfulness in toddlerhood was associated with children's vocabulary skills in prekindergarten whereas mothers’ playfulness was related to children's emotion regulation. Cross‐parental effects were found only for mothers. The association between ...
Source: Infant Mental Health Journal - September 1, 2017 Category: Child Development Authors: Natasha J. Cabrera, Elizabeth Karberg, Jenessa L. Malin, Daniela Aldoney Tags: ARTICLE Source Type: research
Mother –child and father–child play interaction: the importance of parental playfulness as a moderator of the links between parental behavior and child negativity
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Based on the premise that father–child play is an important context for children's development and that fathers “specialize” in play, similarities and differences in the role of playfulness in the father–child and mother–child relationship were examined. Participants in this study included 111 families (children's age: 1–3 years). Father–child and mother–child play interactions were videotaped and coded for parental playfulness, sensitivity, structuring, and nonintrusiveness as well as child negativity. Results indicated that mothers and fathers did not differ in playfulness and that mothers and fa...
Source: Infant Mental Health Journal - September 1, 2017 Category: Child Development Authors: ATARA MENASHE ‐GRINBERG, NAAMA ATZABA‐PORIA Tags: ARTICLE Source Type: research
The quality of father –child rough‐and‐tumble play and toddlers’ aggressive behavior in china
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The purpose of this study was to explore the influence of the quality of early father–child rough‐and‐tumble play (RTP) on toddler aggressive behaviors and more fully understand how child, mother, and father characteristics were associated with higher quality father–child RTP among contemporary urban Chinese families. Participants included 42 families in Changsha, China. Play observations of fathers and their children were coded for RTP quality. The specific RTP quality of father–child reciprocity of dominance was associated with fewer toddler aggressive behaviors, as rated by both fathers and mothers. M...
Source: Infant Mental Health Journal - September 1, 2017 Category: Child Development Authors: Sheila Anderson, Wei Qiu, Shanalyn J. Wheeler Tags: ARTICLE Source Type: research
