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Looking back to light the path forward: Ghosts in the Nursery revisited 回望光明前行之路:《托儿所的幽灵》重访。
IF 2.4 3区 心理学
Infant Mental Health Journal Pub Date : 2023-10-23 DOI: 10.1002/imhj.22089
Arietta Slade
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Preterm infant mental health in the neonatal intensive care unit: A review of research on NICU parent-infant interactions and maternal sensitivity 新生儿重症监护室的早产儿心理健康:新生儿重症监护病房母婴互动和母亲敏感性研究综述。
IF 2.4 3区 心理学
Infant Mental Health Journal Pub Date : 2023-10-10 DOI: 10.1002/imhj.22086
Georgina Hartzell, Richard J. Shaw, Soudabeh Givrad
{"title":"Preterm infant mental health in the neonatal intensive care unit: A review of research on NICU parent-infant interactions and maternal sensitivity","authors":"Georgina Hartzell,&nbsp;Richard J. Shaw,&nbsp;Soudabeh Givrad","doi":"10.1002/imhj.22086","DOIUrl":"10.1002/imhj.22086","url":null,"abstract":"<p>Caregiving relationships in the postnatal period are critical to an infant's development. Preterm infants and their parents face unique challenges in this regard, with infants experiencing separation from parents, uncomfortable procedures, and increased biologic vulnerability, and parents facing difficulties assuming caregiver roles and increased risk for psychological distress. To better understand the NICU parent-infant relationship, we conducted a review of the literature and identified 52 studies comparing observed maternal, infant, and dyadic interaction behavior in preterm dyads with full-term dyads. Eighteen of 40 studies on maternal behavior found less favorable behavior, including decreased sensitivity and more intrusiveness in mothers of preterm infants, seven studies found the opposite, four studies found mixed results, and 11 studies found no differences. Seventeen of 25 studies on infant behavior found less responsiveness in preterm infants, two studies found the opposite, and the remainder found no difference. Eighteen out of 14 studies on dyad-specific behavior reported less synchrony in preterm dyads and the remainder found no differences. We identify confounding factors that may explain variations in results, present an approach to interpret existing data by framing differences in maternal behavior as potentially adaptive in the context of prematurity, and suggest future areas for exploration.</p>","PeriodicalId":48026,"journal":{"name":"Infant Mental Health Journal","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":2.4,"publicationDate":"2023-10-10","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"41183908","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"心理学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
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Childhood maltreatment history and trauma-specific predictors of parenting stress in new fathers 初为人父的儿童虐待史和创伤特定的育儿压力预测因素。
IF 2.4 3区 心理学
Infant Mental Health Journal Pub Date : 2023-09-02 DOI: 10.1002/imhj.22084
Josephine R. Granner, Shawna J. Lee, Jade Burns, Todd I. Herrenkohl, Allison L. Miller, Julia S. Seng
{"title":"Childhood maltreatment history and trauma-specific predictors of parenting stress in new fathers","authors":"Josephine R. Granner,&nbsp;Shawna J. Lee,&nbsp;Jade Burns,&nbsp;Todd I. Herrenkohl,&nbsp;Allison L. Miller,&nbsp;Julia S. Seng","doi":"10.1002/imhj.22084","DOIUrl":"10.1002/imhj.22084","url":null,"abstract":"<p>For new fathers, parenting stress is a risk factor for impaired early parenting and child maltreatment perpetration. Predictors of parenting stress, including fathers’ own experiences of trauma, could be useful intervention targets to support new fathers. We aim to examine associations between new fathers’ own histories of child maltreatment, and their perinatal mental health, relationships, and parenting stress. We recruited 298 first-time fathers for a survey that measured child maltreatment history, trauma sequelae including posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD), major depressive disorder (MDD), interpersonal reactivity, substance use, anger expression, coparenting quality, and parenting stress. On the Parenting Stress Index (PSI) (from 36 to 180), bivariate analysis demonstrated that new fathers who experienced child maltreatment (n = 94) had significantly higher parenting stress (x̅ = 85.3, σ = 18.7) than those who did not (n = 204; x̅ = 76.0, σ = 16.6; <i>P</i> &lt; .000). Hierarchical linear regression modeling indicated that a child maltreatment history, PTSD, and MDD were significantly associated with parenting stress. The strongest predictors of parenting stress were coparenting quality and complex trauma sequelae—interpersonal reactivity and anger expression. Interventions to reduce fathers’ parenting stress by targeting known mental health and relationship sequelae of maltreatment are promising avenues to breaking intergenerational transmission of child maltreatment and psychiatric vulnerability.</p>","PeriodicalId":48026,"journal":{"name":"Infant Mental Health Journal","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":2.4,"publicationDate":"2023-09-02","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.1002/imhj.22084","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"10143531","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"心理学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
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Risk factors associated with higher scores in internalizing and externalizing behaviors in Chilean preschoolers 智利学龄前儿童内化和外化行为得分较高的相关危险因素
IF 2.4 3区 心理学
Infant Mental Health Journal Pub Date : 2023-08-22 DOI: 10.1002/imhj.22082
Paula Bedregal, Victoria Lermanda, Rodrigo Sierra, Paola Viviani
{"title":"Risk factors associated with higher scores in internalizing and externalizing behaviors in Chilean preschoolers","authors":"Paula Bedregal,&nbsp;Victoria Lermanda,&nbsp;Rodrigo Sierra,&nbsp;Paola Viviani","doi":"10.1002/imhj.22082","DOIUrl":"10.1002/imhj.22082","url":null,"abstract":"<p>Early detection of behavioral disorders in children is necessary for intervention. Available data show a high prevalence of child and adolescent psychiatric disorders in Chile (22.5%), but behavioral problems in younger children have not been evaluated. This work assesses behavioral disorders in preschoolers and their association with sociodemographic variables of the family and the child. The data was collected during the impact assessment of the Biopsychosocial Development Support Program <i>“Chile Crece Contigo”</i>, using a multistage and representative random sample of 1377 preschoolers, aged between 30 and 48 months, who attended public health services. Homes were visited to apply a questionnaire and the Child Behavior Checklist (CBCL, 1.5–5 years). Results: Multivariable regression model for total raw scores shows that child's age, the number of chronic diseases in the child, and history of exposure to mother's alcohol consumption in pregnancy, remain significant when adjusted for all variables included (<i>R</i><sup>2</sup> of 17.8% and <i>η</i><sup>2</sup> of .19 (95% CI: .14–.22)). In externalizing and internalizing explanatory models, child's chronic diseases and a higher score of authoritarian beliefs about parenting show the two largest effect sizes. These results add to the evidence of urgent problems in preschool mental health.</p>","PeriodicalId":48026,"journal":{"name":"Infant Mental Health Journal","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":2.4,"publicationDate":"2023-08-22","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.1002/imhj.22082","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"10303331","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"心理学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
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Parental sensitivity, family alliance and infants’ vagal tone: Influences of early family interactions on physiological emotion regulation 父母敏感性、家庭联盟和婴儿迷走神经张力:早期家庭互动对生理情绪调节的影响。
IF 2.4 3区 心理学
Infant Mental Health Journal Pub Date : 2023-08-22 DOI: 10.1002/imhj.22085
Valentine Rattaz, Hervé Tissot, Nilo Puglisi, Chantal Razurel, Manuella Epiney, Nicolas Favez
{"title":"Parental sensitivity, family alliance and infants’ vagal tone: Influences of early family interactions on physiological emotion regulation","authors":"Valentine Rattaz,&nbsp;Hervé Tissot,&nbsp;Nilo Puglisi,&nbsp;Chantal Razurel,&nbsp;Manuella Epiney,&nbsp;Nicolas Favez","doi":"10.1002/imhj.22085","DOIUrl":"10.1002/imhj.22085","url":null,"abstract":"<p>In this study, we investigated the influence of parental sensitivity and family alliance on infants’ vagal tone, considered as a physiological indicator of emotion regulation. Studies on mother–infant interactions have shown that vagal tone can be influenced by the quality of the interaction, such as interacting with a sensitive mother. To date, no study has investigated the influence of paternal sensitivity or family alliance on infants’ vagal tone. We hypothesized that maternal sensitivity, paternal sensitivity, and family alliance would be associated with infants’ vagal tone during dyadic and triadic interactions. We also explored if family alliance would act as a moderator on the association between parental sensitivity and vagal tone and if the sensitivity of both parents would act as a moderator on the association between family alliance and vagal tone. This study took place in Switzerland and included 82 families with their 3–4-month-old infants. Results showed that maternal sensitivity and family alliance were associated with infants’ vagal tone, but paternal sensitivity was not. We found no significant moderation effect. However, result tendencies suggested that the contribution of paternal sensitivity to infants’ emotion regulation could be influenced by family alliance, whereas maternal sensitivity and family alliance have a unique contribution.</p>","PeriodicalId":48026,"journal":{"name":"Infant Mental Health Journal","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":2.4,"publicationDate":"2023-08-22","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.1002/imhj.22085","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"10107587","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"心理学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
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Framing the work: A coparenting model for guiding infant mental health engagement with families 构建工作框架:指导婴儿心理健康与家庭接触的亲子模式
IF 2.4 3区 心理学
Infant Mental Health Journal Pub Date : 2023-08-22 DOI: 10.1002/imhj.22083
James McHale, Herve Tissot, Silvia Mazzoni, Monica Hedenbro, Selin Salman-Engin, Diane A. Philipp, Joëlle Darwiche, Miri Keren, Russia Collins, Erica Coates, Martina Mensi, Antoinette Corboz-Warnery, Elisabeth Fivaz-Depeursinge
{"title":"Framing the work: A coparenting model for guiding infant mental health engagement with families","authors":"James McHale,&nbsp;Herve Tissot,&nbsp;Silvia Mazzoni,&nbsp;Monica Hedenbro,&nbsp;Selin Salman-Engin,&nbsp;Diane A. Philipp,&nbsp;Joëlle Darwiche,&nbsp;Miri Keren,&nbsp;Russia Collins,&nbsp;Erica Coates,&nbsp;Martina Mensi,&nbsp;Antoinette Corboz-Warnery,&nbsp;Elisabeth Fivaz-Depeursinge","doi":"10.1002/imhj.22083","DOIUrl":"10.1002/imhj.22083","url":null,"abstract":"<p>When working with families of infants and toddlers, intentionally looking beyond dyadic child-parent relationship functioning to conceptualize the child's socioemotional adaptation within their broader family collective can enhance the likelihood that clinical gains will be supported and sustained. However, there has been little expert guidance regarding how best to frame infant-family mental health therapeutic encounters for the adults responsible for the child's care and upbringing in a manner that elevates their mindfulness about and their resolve to strengthen the impact of their coparenting collective. This article describes a new collaborative initiative organized by family-oriented infant mental health professionals across several different countries, all of whom bring expansive expertise assessing and working with coparenting and triangular family dynamics. The Collaborative's aims are to identify a means for framing initial infant mental health encounters and intakes with families with the goal of assessing and raising family consciousness about the relevance of coparenting. Initial points of convergence and growing points identified by the Collaborative for subsequent field study are addressed.</p>","PeriodicalId":48026,"journal":{"name":"Infant Mental Health Journal","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":2.4,"publicationDate":"2023-08-22","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"10295857","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"心理学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
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Art at the Start: A controlled trial and close observation of parent-infant art therapy intervention 艺术在起点:亲子艺术治疗干预的对照试验与密切观察
IF 2.4 3区 心理学
Infant Mental Health Journal Pub Date : 2023-08-08 DOI: 10.1002/imhj.22078
Victoria Gray Armstrong, Josephine Ross
{"title":"Art at the Start: A controlled trial and close observation of parent-infant art therapy intervention","authors":"Victoria Gray Armstrong,&nbsp;Josephine Ross","doi":"10.1002/imhj.22078","DOIUrl":"10.1002/imhj.22078","url":null,"abstract":"<p>This two-part study seeks to evidence art therapy intervention for parent-infant attachment relationships, looking at improvements to wellbeing and relationships. Study one was a controlled trial with 105 participating parent/caregivers and their infants (0–3-years), identified due to concerns about their relationship. They were quasi-randomized to attend a 12-week art therapy group or treatment as usual. Measures focused on parents’ wellbeing and their perceptions of their relationship with their infant. In study 2 we analyzed video footage from the first and penultimate sessions of a sample of 37 dyads, looking for observable changes in the different channels of communication upon which attachments are predicated. The controlled trial showed intervention participants had significantly improved parental wellbeing, significant increases in attachment warmth and significant decreases in intrusion. This contrasted with the control sample who showed a significant decrease in wellbeing, stable warmth, and significant increases in intrusion. The observation study showed that there was a significant increase in the communicative behaviors from the parents to the infant which would support attachments between the first and penultimate sessions. We conclude that these results make a robust case for the inclusion of art therapy within the range of interventions available for at risk early relationships</p>","PeriodicalId":48026,"journal":{"name":"Infant Mental Health Journal","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":2.4,"publicationDate":"2023-08-08","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.1002/imhj.22078","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"10355274","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"心理学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
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Enhancing early parenting in the community: Preliminary results from a learning collaborative approach to scale up Attachment and Biobehavioral Catch-up 在社区中加强早期育儿:扩大依恋和生物行为追赶的学习合作方法的初步结果。
IF 2.4 3区 心理学
Infant Mental Health Journal Pub Date : 2023-08-08 DOI: 10.1002/imhj.22081
Karen Appleyard Carmody, Kathryn J. Murray, Breanna Williams, Allison Frost, Cheri Coleman, Kelly Sullivan
{"title":"Enhancing early parenting in the community: Preliminary results from a learning collaborative approach to scale up Attachment and Biobehavioral Catch-up","authors":"Karen Appleyard Carmody,&nbsp;Kathryn J. Murray,&nbsp;Breanna Williams,&nbsp;Allison Frost,&nbsp;Cheri Coleman,&nbsp;Kelly Sullivan","doi":"10.1002/imhj.22081","DOIUrl":"10.1002/imhj.22081","url":null,"abstract":"<p>Attachment and Biobehavioral Catch-up (ABC) is a promising home-visiting intervention promoting sensitive caregiving and secure parent–child attachment in families with young children. The goal of this study was to examine a learning collaborative approach to disseminating ABC in a community setting. Training outcomes (e.g., trainee completion, satisfaction, effectiveness of training methods) and intervention outcomes (e.g., parent behavior, parent beliefs, child socioemotional development) were examined. Eighteen practitioners participated in the ABC learning collaborative; 13 completed training. Quantitative and qualitative measures indicated that trainees were satisfied with their experience and valued the unique collaboration opportunities offered by the learning collaborative. In addition, trainees served 67 families in the community, 37 of whom completed all sessions of ABC. The study was conducted in the United States. Racial demographics of the children in the sample included: 56.7% White, 22.4% Black/African–American, 17.9% Bi- or Multi-racial, and 3.0% unknown. Regarding ethnicity, 80.6% were Non-Hispanic/Latino, 10.4% were Hispanic/Latino, and 9.0% were unknown. Caregivers who completed ABC showed more sensitive parenting behavior and reported positive changes in their perceived self-efficacy and their beliefs around infant crying. Children who received ABC showed increased socioemotional functioning. Results demonstrate successful dissemination of ABC in the community using a learning collaborative approach.</p>","PeriodicalId":48026,"journal":{"name":"Infant Mental Health Journal","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":2.4,"publicationDate":"2023-08-08","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"9951078","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"心理学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
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Reflective supervision and consultation and its impact within early childhood-serving programs: A systematic review 反思性监督和咨询及其在幼儿服务项目中的影响:一项系统综述。
IF 2.4 3区 心理学
Infant Mental Health Journal Pub Date : 2023-08-03 DOI: 10.1002/imhj.22079
Lindsay Huffhines, Rachel Herman, Rebecca B. Silver, Christine M. Low, Rebecca Newland, Stephanie H. Parade
{"title":"Reflective supervision and consultation and its impact within early childhood-serving programs: A systematic review","authors":"Lindsay Huffhines,&nbsp;Rachel Herman,&nbsp;Rebecca B. Silver,&nbsp;Christine M. Low,&nbsp;Rebecca Newland,&nbsp;Stephanie H. Parade","doi":"10.1002/imhj.22079","DOIUrl":"10.1002/imhj.22079","url":null,"abstract":"<p>Reflective supervision and consultation (RS/C) is regarded as best practice within the infant/early childhood mental health field. Benefits of RS/C on the early childhood workforce and children and families have been demonstrated through case studies, conceptual pieces, and individual research studies. However, findings across studies have not been summarized using gold-standard methodology, thus the state of existing empirical support for RS/C is unclear. This systematic review examined the collective evidence for RS/C across diverse early childhood-serving programs. Electronic databases were searched to identify studies investigating associations between RS/C and professionals’ reflective capacity and well-being, child/family outcomes, and implementation factors. Twenty-eight papers were identified. Studies showed positive associations between RS/C and early childhood-serving professionals’ reflective capacity and well-being, with qualitative studies reporting more consistent results than studies using quantitative methods. Many methodological limitations were identified, including incomplete reporting of study designs and participant characteristics, variability in outcome measures, and lack of randomization and comparison groups. Furthermore, few studies examined child and family outcomes. Therefore, while RS/C shows great promise, it was difficult to ascertain its overall effectiveness from an empirical standpoint. Establishing RS/C as an empirically supported approach will be possible with more rigorous research.</p>","PeriodicalId":48026,"journal":{"name":"Infant Mental Health Journal","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":2.4,"publicationDate":"2023-08-03","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"9934538","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"心理学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
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Relationship focused mother–infant groups: Preliminary evaluation of improvements in maternal mental health, parenting confidence, and parental reflective functioning 以关系为中心的母婴组:对改善产妇心理健康、养育子女信心和父母反思功能的初步评价
IF 2.4 3区 心理学
Infant Mental Health Journal Pub Date : 2023-08-01 DOI: 10.1002/imhj.22080
Sharon Cooke, Dawson Campbell Cooke, Yvonne Hauck
{"title":"Relationship focused mother–infant groups: Preliminary evaluation of improvements in maternal mental health, parenting confidence, and parental reflective functioning","authors":"Sharon Cooke,&nbsp;Dawson Campbell Cooke,&nbsp;Yvonne Hauck","doi":"10.1002/imhj.22080","DOIUrl":"10.1002/imhj.22080","url":null,"abstract":"<p>We report on two preliminary evaluations of a group intervention, targeting vulnerable infants and their mothers within the first 6-months postpartum. The Mother–Baby Nurture<sup>®</sup> program aims to strengthen the developing infant–mother attachment relationship by increasing maternal mentalizing. These studies were undertaken with pre-post evaluations with the mothers of infants under 10-months of age. The mother–infant dyads participated in ten 2-h group sessions. Study one (<i>N</i> = 69 dyads) included self-reported maternal depression, anxiety, and parenting confidence. In study two (<i>N</i> = 27 dyads), parenting stress and reflective functioning were measured by self-report, and reflective functioning coded on the 5 min speech sample (completed by <i>N</i> = 22). Results from study one confirmed a decrease in depression (<i>p </i>&lt; .001, <i>d </i>= .79) and anxiety (<i>p </i>&lt; .001, <i>d </i>= .72) symptoms, and an increase in mothers’ scores for parenting confidence (<i>p </i>&lt; .001, <i>d </i>= −.98). Results from Study Two demonstrated a significant decrease in parenting stress (<i>p </i>&lt; .001, <i>d</i> = .94) and significant improvement in measures of self-report reflective functioning (<i>p </i>= .007, .024; <i>d </i>= .56, .61). These findings are preliminary yet promising indications that this program could be effective in alleviating parenting stress, depression, and anxiety, and improving mother's reflective functioning and parenting confidence. Further research is needed, with a control group and long-term follow-up assessments.</p>","PeriodicalId":48026,"journal":{"name":"Infant Mental Health Journal","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":2.4,"publicationDate":"2023-08-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.1002/imhj.22080","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"10302472","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"心理学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
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