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{"title":"Examining Beliefs, Behaviors, and Provider Counseling on Physical Activity During Pregnancy: A Cross-Sectional Study in the Southern United States","authors":"Christiana Rebelle, Shannon Jette, John Michael Mills, Rachel Tinius","doi":"10.62858/apphz6ir1amf","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.62858/apphz6ir1amf","url":null,"abstract":"Physical inactivity, obesity, and chronic disease rates are high among pregnant women in the Southern United States. This study aimed to understand the beliefs and behaviors of women in the South regarding physical activity (PA) during pregnancy and whether provider counseling was associated with these beliefs and behaviors. The study included 292 women from the South who completed an online survey, providing sociodemographic data and recalling their health beliefs and PA during pregnancy. Descriptive statistics and correlation analyses were used to describe and assess the relationships between variables. The study found that feeling tired and lacking motivation were common barriers to PA, while improved health was the main benefit. The participants felt most susceptible to anxiety and depression. Providers were the primary source of support for PA, but provider counseling was not significantly correlated with increased PA. Participants engaged mostly in light household and caregiving activities. Sociodemographic factors had a stronger association with beliefs and behaviors than provider counseling. The study suggests that provider counseling should be enhanced with established techniques such as motivational interviewing to support PA.","PeriodicalId":207385,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Prenatal and Perinatal Psychology and Health","volume":"208 ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2024-04-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"140768809","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Love, Pregnancy, Conflict, and Solution: On the Way to an Understanding of Conflicted Pregnancy","authors":"R. Linder","doi":"10.1007/978-3-030-41716-1_20","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-41716-1_20","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":207385,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Prenatal and Perinatal Psychology and Health","volume":"42 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2016-12-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"117129913","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"On the Psychodynamics of Preeclampsia and HELLP Syndrome","authors":"R. Linder","doi":"10.1007/978-3-030-41716-1_17","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-41716-1_17","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":207385,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Prenatal and Perinatal Psychology and Health","volume":"74 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2014-12-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"121438816","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"The Body Bears the Burden: Trauma, Dissociation and Disease","authors":"Michael Trout","doi":"10.5860/choice.39-6115","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.5860/choice.39-6115","url":null,"abstract":"The Body Bears the Burden: Trauma, Dissociation and Disease by Robert C. Scaer, MD. (2001). Binghamton, New York: The Haworth Medical Press. 250 pp. ISBN: 0-7890-1245-6. I have focused my attentions, during the last year of reading, on the neurobiology of trauma. Robert Scaer's remarkable treatise has particularly grabbed my attention for its innocence, its profundity, its empiricism, its clear-headed medical suggestion that pain-and long-term response to sudden physical trauma-may be linked to earlier, emotional trauma. A simple example: the length of time whiplash symptoms persist after a motor vehicle accident may have less to do with the particulars of the accident itself than with whether or not the victim had been-even decades before-abused. We have intuited many of the things that Dr. Scaer demonstrates, from empirical research, in his book. But what an experience it is to sit with this now-retired physician and pain specialist-initially naive to the psychology of accidents-and have him teach us about the physiology of being harmed when we were very little. He proposes, for example, that \"... adults with a history of child abuse typically experience a greater tendency to freeze at the moment of subsequent trauma and to develop dissociative symptoms.\" (p. 108). But he goes on to teach us about the vulnerability that such early victims of abuse may then have to seemingly unrelated events: It is this very tendency to freeze, to dissociate (born in our earlier struggle to cope with abuse, for example), that sets us up to respond to a minor car accident not merely by being angry, or having a sore muscle for a few days, but by developing PTSD symptoms-including difficulty in focusing, difficulty in remembering, headaches, irritability, sexual dysfunction, pain in a variety of regions (orofacial, bladder, pelvic, low back), fibromyalgia, and irritable bowel syndrome. And we may well make a connection, in our bodies, between the earlier emotional hurt and the present physical hurt: a childhood sexual abuse victim, for example, may not only have a delayed recovery to a vehicle accident, but have specific, abuse-related symptoms that persist for years after the accident-such as low back and pelvic pain, or piriformis syndrome (a form of sciatica due to spasm of one of the deep muscles of the buttock). Dr. Scaer even takes the huge risk, as a physician, of mentioning birth traumas-and their possible relationship to dissociation and increased morbidity in an adult experiencing whiplash syndrome after a motor vehicle accident. For example: \"Intrauterine needling of the fetus has been shown to elicit a full-blown stress-related increase in plasma cortisol and B-endorphin level ....\" (p. 152). Does this suggest that an unborn child may be set up for increased reactivity to later events that seem (to an organism intent on surviving) to be similarly threatening? …","PeriodicalId":207385,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Prenatal and Perinatal Psychology and Health","volume":"15 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2005-10-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"114070239","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Attachment and self-understanding: parenting with the brain in mind 1","authors":"D. Siegel","doi":"10.4324/9780429472039-3","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.4324/9780429472039-3","url":null,"abstract":"ABSTRACT: This article is an adaptation of a chapter in a text edited by Marci Green and published by Karnac and is based on the ideas explored in The Developing Mind: How relationships and the brain interact to shape who we are (Guilford, 1999) and Parenting from the Inside Out: How a deeper self-understanding can help you raise children who thrive (with Mary Hartzell [2003]). It has been summarized in part in the article, The Mind, the Brain, and Human Relationships (Gynaelcology Forum International, 2003) and published online under the current title by Enneagram Monthly. KEY WORDS: attachment, neurobiology, parenting, relationships, brain development. INTRODUCTION The word \"attachment\" can evoke a wide range of responses from parents. For some it signifies a positive experience of the relationship between child and parent. For others, a sense of dread may emerge with the idea that somehow what has happened early in life will determine destiny without hope of liberation from patterns of the past. The old notion that our early life experiences somehow determine our fate can give you a sense of hopelessness: What is the point of learning about attachment if it just tells you that you are helpless to make a change as an adult? The fact of the matter is that this fatalistic notion is wrong. Carefully conducted scientific studies have shown us that it is not what happened to you that matters most in determining how you raise your children; instead, it is how you have come to make sense of your early life experiences that is the most robust predictor of how your children will become attached to you. Amazing, but true! In this writing I will invite you to sit down with me and explore the wonderfully intriguing ideas and accessible practical implementations of the science of attachment. In my own journeys through medical school and clinical psychiatry training and then into research in attachment, emotion, memory and narrative, I have come to realize how central attachment relationships are in our lives. What has fascinated me over the past ten years, the \"Decade of the Brain,\" is how our understanding of the role relationships play in our day-to-day subjective lives can be profoundly deepened by integrating the objective findings of an array of sciences. By exploring a wide range of sciences, from anthropology to neuroscience, and seeking the convergence of findings that emerges from their integration, we can arrive at a consilient view of the \"unity of knowledge\" (or \"consilience,\" as E.O. Wilson has used the term [1998]). In the Brittanica Dictionary, consilience is defined as \"the concurrence of generalizations from separate classes of facts in logical inductions so that one set of inductive laws is found to be in accord with another set of distinct derivation.\" In other words, as in the old Indian tale of the blind men and the elephant, there is a \"larger reality\" that exists, though any single perspective can only begin to describe one view oftha","PeriodicalId":207385,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Prenatal and Perinatal Psychology and Health","volume":"30 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2004-07-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"124994045","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"The Biology of Love","authors":"Stephen Khamsi","doi":"10.5860/choice.38-0616","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.5860/choice.38-0616","url":null,"abstract":"The Biology of Love by Arthur Janov (2000). Amherst, NY: Prometheus. 364 pages. ISBN: 1573928291. Love, argues Janov in The Biology of Love, is a neurochemical event. Love consists of specific hormones and is embodied in specific brain structures. Love begins in the womb, literally shapes our brains, and determines how we think, feel and act throughout life. Love determines the state of our health and the length of our lives. Womblife, for Janov, is critical to the development of personality, mental health and illness, and sexual orientation. Love and affection during this early critical period help the nervous system to develop properly, and to produce serotonin and other repressive brain hormones. The \"love imprint\" allows for proper development in utero, which radiates positively throughout our lives. While acknowledging that there are genetic and environmental factors, Janov focuses on the negative biological factors that are imprinted upon the fetus. The absence of love adversely affects the nervous and hormonal systems, leaving a \"toxic brain environment\" that is less able to effect repression (those familiar with Janov's earlier writings may be surprised at this late praise for the biology of repression). Janov insists that homosexuality, schizophrenia, and Alzheimer's are among the myriad of afflictions that originate in the womb. Maternal stress, intrauterine trauma, alcohol and tranquilizers act as teratogens that alter fetal biology-due in part to the intrauterine levels of serotonin and dopamine-and to predispose to later mental illness. So what are the particular biological structures and mechanisms of love? The right cerebral hemisphere, insists Janov, is \"the hemisphere of love.\" The limbic system is responsible for processing and organizing emotion; the hippocampus contains the history of feeling while the amygdala, the focal point of raw emotion, allows us to process and feel feelings. And what about the \"hormones of love?\" Oxytocin is the main ingredient in maternal behavior, attachment and bonding; it calms, helps repress pain and anxiety, and allows men to sustain long-term monogamous relationships. Vasopressin, involved in arousal and aggression, promotes paternal feelings and social bonding. Serotonin, a blocking agent, aids in the inhibition of anxiety and the repression of pain; it produces comfort and satisfaction, and helps keep imprinted impulses in check. Dopamine, an excitatory \"feel good\" chemical, is said to rise in response to physical affection; it makes us alert, keeps us vigilant, and produces pleasure. Prolactin contributes to maternal feelings. Not surprisingly, The Biology of Love is also about primal therapy. The goal of the therapy is \"pleasure, contentment, and a good life,\" all of which result from making the unconscious conscious. Janov still uses darkened, padded therapy offices. But he refuses to describe his techniques, claiming that they take six years to learn and that \"making them public runs the r","PeriodicalId":207385,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Prenatal and Perinatal Psychology and Health","volume":"138 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2001-12-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"128468242","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Born unwanted : developmental effects of denied abortion","authors":"H. David, Z. Dytrych, Z. Matějček, V. Schüller","doi":"10.2307/1966579","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.2307/1966579","url":null,"abstract":"A Tenth Anniversary Review Born Unwanted: Developmental Effects of Denied Abortion by David, H. P., Dytrych, Z., Matejcek, Z., and Schuller, V. (Editors). Avicenum: Prague, 1988. On the tenth anniversary of this extraordinary publication about unwanted pregnancies, many people are still not familiar with the definitive scientific information it contains. Surely the most comprehensive longitudinal study ever made of the effects of being born unwanted, the findings by collaborators in three countries may be unique. Research on such an ambitious scale is unlikely to be repeated anywhere, making it all the more urgent to acquire in depth understanding the evidence. As few other works can do, this study goes beyond opinion and speculation to illuminate the formative realities of the prenatal period. Psychologists thoroughly analyzed cohorts in Goteborg, Sweden for 25 years in Prague (now the capital of The Czech Republic) from birth to early adulthood, and in Northern Finland to the age of sixteen. Then* findings reveal the pervasive consequences of rejection starting long before birth. The children, conceived and born under this cloud, found themselves on a Trail of Sorrows. In Goteborg, 120 unwanted children were matched with 120 controls of the same sex. Individuals unwanted at conception, unwanted during gestation, and delivered after refusal of applications for abortion were at greater risk than control subjects for psychosocial problems. The unwanted children received more psychiatric attention, were more often delinquent, and did more poorly in school. In northern Finland (Oulu and Lapland), where 12% of almost 12,000 women said the pregnancy \"should not have occurred at all,\" many comparisons were made over time with the children of mothers who had accepted the pregnancy. At 28 days after birth, measurements revealed that unwanted babies were smaller in weight and length, and a greater proportion of them had been born prematurely. These children had a significantly higher infant mortality rate (24 deaths per 1000 births) and had higher incidences of all types of handicaps including cerebral palsy and mental retardation. At age eight, the researchers initiated a matched-pair study to compare the wanted and unwanted babies after the first year of school, and again at age 14 and 16, the last year of compulsory education in Finland. From the start, unwanted babies had a harder time in school, needed more help from teachers, and were rated poorer in verbal performance. Follow-up at age fourteen showed the unwanted children had more than double the number of low IQ scores (under 86) as their matched pairs. Physical growth was poorer and school performance significantly lower. Finally, at sixteen years of age, unwanted children were more often reluctant to go to school, wanted to leave at the earliest possible age, and found little purpose in continuing their education. Relationships with teachers and fellow classmates were more troubled. At home, th","PeriodicalId":207385,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Prenatal and Perinatal Psychology and Health","volume":"49 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1989-05-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"130180056","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"The Pre- and Perinatal Origins of Childhood and Adult Diseases and Personality Disorders","authors":"T. Verny","doi":"10.1007/978-3-030-41716-1_5","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-41716-1_5","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":207385,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Prenatal and Perinatal Psychology and Health","volume":"182 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1900-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"122758311","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}