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Source: Infant Mental Health Journal - September 1, 2017 Category: Child Development Tags: Issue Information – TOC Source Type: research
Family conflict moderates early parent –child behavioral transactions
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The reciprocal transactions that shape early parent–child relationships are influenced by contextual stress, such as family conflict. Although family conflict is a salient stressor to the family system, few studies have considered how parent–child transactions vary according to exposure to family conflict. The present study examined how family conflict alters early parent–child behavioral transactions. We utilized three waves of data from a multisite longitudinal study of low‐income families (N = 2, 876), child age 14 months, 24 months, and 36 months, to identify behavioral transactions of positive and neg...
Source: Infant Mental Health Journal - August 26, 2017 Category: Child Development Authors: KATHERINE W. PASCHALL, MELISSA A. BARNETT, ANN M. MASTERGEORGE, JENNIFER A. MORTENSEN Tags: ARTICLE Source Type: research
Expanding infant mental health treatment services to at ‐risk preschoolers and their families through the integration of relational play therapy
This article will examine the RPT literature and explore the similarities and differences between IMH and RPT. In addition, two case studies will highlight a five‐phase, integrative clinical‐treatment process and provide insight into how IMH clinicians are integrating RPT models and maintaining adherence to the IMH treatment approach. (Source: Infant Mental Health Journal)
Source: Infant Mental Health Journal - August 21, 2017 Category: Child Development Authors: Jennifer L. Farley, Ellen E. Whipple Tags: ARTICLE Source Type: research
Maternal trauma affects prenatal mental health and infant stress regulation among palestinian dyads
We examined how diverse and cumulated traumatic experiences predicted maternal prenatal mental health and infant stress regulation in war conditions and whether maternal mental health mediated the association between trauma and infant stress regulation. Participants were 511 Palestinian mothers from the Gaza Strip who reported exposure to current war trauma (WT), past childhood emotional (CEA) and physical abuse, socioeconomic status (SES), prenatal mental health problems (posttraumatic stress disorder and depression symptoms), and perceived stress during their secondtrimester of pregnancy as well as infant stress regulati...
Source: Infant Mental Health Journal - August 21, 2017 Category: Child Development Authors: Sanna Isos ävi, Safwat Y. Diab, Samuli Kangaslampi, Samir Qouta, Saija Kankaanpää, Kaija Puura, Raija‐Leena Punamäki Tags: ARTICLE Source Type: research
Feasibility and effectiveness of dyadic prolonged exposure intervention for preventing posttraumatic grief in young children: a case report of two siblings
This article highlights the feasibility of a dyadic prolonged exposure (DPE) intervention (L. Rachamim, I. Mirochnik, L. Helpman, N. Nacasch, & E. Yadin, ) in a 3‐year‐old preschooler and in a 6‐year‐old kindergartener immediately following the traumatic death of their younger sibling. It presents a detailed case description of the DPE treatment addressing traumatic grief and includes transcribed treatment dialogue. At the time of treatment termination, both children and caregivers resumed normal functioning. The results suggest that DPE intervention may ameliorate posttraumatic grief symptoms in young children...
Source: Infant Mental Health Journal - August 14, 2017 Category: Child Development Authors: Lilach Rachamim Tags: CLINICAL PERSPECTIVES Source Type: research
PROVIDING A MIRROR OF “PRIMAL SYMPATHY:” BEING PRESENT FOR YOUR NURSERY AGE CHILD: REVIEWED JEANNE MAGAGNA AND PATRIZIA PASQUINI (EDS.) Karnac 2014, pp 292, ISBN 978 1782201410
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Source: Infant Mental Health Journal - July 10, 2017 Category: Child Development Authors: Brad Freeman Tags: BOOK REVIEW Source Type: research
Maternal interaction quality moderates effects of prenatal maternal emotional symptoms on girls ’ internalizing problems
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The role of mother–infant interaction quality is studied in the relation between prenatal maternal emotional symptoms and child behavioral problems. Healthy pregnant, Dutch women (N = 96, M = 31.6, SD = 3.3) were allocated to the “exposed group” (n = 46), consisting of mothers with high levels of prenatal feelings of anxiety and depression, or the “low‐exposed group” (n = 50), consisting of mothers with normal levels of depressive or anxious symptoms during pregnancy. When the children (49 girls, 47 boys) were 23 to 60 months of age (M = 39.0, SD = 9.6), parents completed the Child Behavior Checklist (...
Source: Infant Mental Health Journal - July 1, 2017 Category: Child Development Authors: JOYCE J. ENDENDIJK, Anouk T.C.E. Bruijn, Hedwig J.A. Bakel, Hennie A.A. Wijnen, Victor J.M. Pop, Anneloes L. Baar Tags: ARTICLE Source Type: research
Early head start families ’ experiences with stress: understanding variations within a high‐risk, low‐income sample
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The federal Early Head Start program provides a relevant context to examine families’ experiences with stress since participants qualify on the basis of poverty and risk. Building on previous research that has shown variations in demographic and economic risks even among qualifying families, we examined possible variations in families’ perceptions of stress. Family, parent, and child data were collected to measure stressors and risk across a variety of domains in families’ everyday lives, primarily from self‐report measures, but also including assay results from child cortisol samples. A cluster analysis w...
Source: Infant Mental Health Journal - July 1, 2017 Category: Child Development Authors: JASON T. HUSTEDT, JENNIFER A. VU, KAITLIN N. BARGREEN, RENA A. HALLAM, MYAE HAN Tags: ARTICLE Source Type: research
Does training in the circle of security framework increase relational understanding in infant/child and family workers?
This article evaluated whether attendance at Circle of Security training workshops resulted in attendees showing greater empathy and attachment‐related knowledge and understanding, and fewer judgmental responses to viewing a stressful parent–child interaction. Participants were 202 practitioners who attended and completed a 2‐day (n = 70), 4‐day (n = 105), or 10‐day (n = 27) COS training workshop in Australia or New Zealand in 2015. In a pre/post design, participant reactions to a video clip of a challenging parent–child interaction were coded for empathic, judgmental, or attachment‐focused language. Attachme...
Source: Infant Mental Health Journal - July 1, 2017 Category: Child Development Authors: CATHERINE MCMAHON, ANNA HUBER, JANE KOHLHOFF, ANNA ‐LISA CAMBERIS Tags: ARTICLE Source Type: research
Paternal and maternal reflective functioning in the western australian peel child health study
This study examined differences between mother and father parental reflective functioning (PRF) or parental mentalizing; that is, the parental capacity to reason about their own and their children's behaviors by taking into consideration intentional mental states. Data were collected from 120 couples with a 1‐year‐old child who were participants in the West Australian Peel Child Health Study. Parental mentalizing was assessed using the Parental Reflective Functioning Questionnaire (PRFQ; Luyten, Mayes, Nijssens, & Fonagy, ). Results showed that mother and father mentalizing with their children was independent and t...
Source: Infant Mental Health Journal - July 1, 2017 Category: Child Development Authors: Dawson Cooke, Lynn Priddis, Patrick Luyten, Garth Kendall, Robert Cavanagh Tags: ARTICLE Source Type: research
Caregiver –child interaction, caregiver transitions, and group size as mediators between intervention condition and attachment and physical growth outcomes in institutionalized children
This report describes a secondary analysis of data from a comprehensive intervention project which included training and structural changes in three Baby Homes in St. Petersburg, Russian Federation. Multiple mediator models were tested according to the R.M. Baron and D.A. Kenny () causal‐steps approach to examine whether caregiver–child interaction quality, number of caregiver transitions, and group size mediated the effects of the intervention on children's attachment behaviors and physical growth. The study utilized a subsample of 163 children from the original Russian Baby Home project, who were between 11 and 19 mo...
Source: Infant Mental Health Journal - July 1, 2017 Category: Child Development Authors: HILARY A. WARNER, ROBERT B. MCCALL, CHRISTINA J. GROARK, KEVIN H. KIM, RIFKAT J. MUHAMEDRAHIMOV, OLEG I. PALMOV, NATALIA V. NIKIFOROVA Tags: ARTICLE Source Type: research
Impact of joint attention on social ‐communication skills in internationally adopted children
This study examined the association between IA children's joint attention (JA) soon after arrival and later cognitive, communicative, and socioemotional competency 6 months’ postadoption. We expected a child's initial JA would positively predict later cognitive, communication, and social ability. IA children (n = 63) adopted from Eastern Europe were seen soon after their arrival into the United States to assess their JA. Their socioemotional competency, social communication, and cognitive abilities were measured at a follow‐up session 6 months’ postadoption. We found that higher order JA was positively associated wit...
Source: Infant Mental Health Journal - July 1, 2017 Category: Child Development Authors: Stephanie A. Moberg, Rowena Ng, Dana E. Johnson, Maria G. Kroupina Tags: ARTICLE Source Type: research
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Source: Infant Mental Health Journal - July 1, 2017 Category: Child Development Tags: Issue Information – TOC Source Type: research
Mixed ‐methods evaluation of participant recruitment and retention in the mom power parenting intervention program
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Parenting group success begins with attendance. Using archival pilot data from 99 mothers who enrolled in the Mom Power (MP) parenting intervention, this study sought to understand the factors that influenced participant engagement and retention. MP is a group‐based, early intervention program grounded in attachment theory that utilizes motivational interviewing as a core component to enhance program engagement. Study aims were to qualitatively describe the reasons why mothers were interested in participating in the program, including what they hoped to gain from the experience, and to quantitatively examine the...
Source: Infant Mental Health Journal - June 30, 2017 Category: Child Development Authors: Lilia E. Mucka, Carolyn J. Dayton, Jamie Lawler, Rosalind Kirk, Emily Alfafara, Melisa m. Schuster, Nicole Miller, Julie Ribaudo, Katherine Lisa Rosenblum, Maria Muzik Tags: ARTICLE Source Type: research
Recognizing infants ’ emotional expressions: are adolescents less sensitive to infants’ cues?
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Previous studies have shown that adolescent mothers interact less sensitively with their infants than do adult mothers. This difference might be due to developmental difficulties in the recognition of infants’ emotional states in adolescents. Therefore, the aim of the current study was to explore differences in the recognition of infant signals between nonparous adolescent girls and boys as compared to female and male adults. To this end, we examined 54 childless adolescents and 54 childless adults (50% female). Participants were shown a series of 20 short videos of infants aged 3 to 6 months presenting differen...
Source: Infant Mental Health Journal - June 30, 2017 Category: Child Development Authors: Anke Niessen, Kerstin Konrad, Brigitte Dahmen, Beate Herpertz ‐Dahlmann, Christine Firk Tags: ARTICLE Source Type: research
