Experience plays an essential role in building brain architecture after birth. The question we
address in this paper is what happens to brain and behavior when a young child is deprived …

Reflective functioning refers to the essential human capacity to understand behavior in light
of underlying mental states and intentions. The construct, introduced by Fonagy, Steele …

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Objective. Early mother–infant relationships in preterm populations were evaluated in the
context of a systematic review of the literature. Design and setting. A systematic search of …

Early interactions between infants and their caregivers are fundamental to child
development, and the parent–infant relationship is believed to provide the foundation for …

“An 8-month-old infant clambers on… a fallen tree while its mother sits about 7 feet below.
The infant slips and hangs by two hands.[His mother] looks up, stands on two legs, and …

This paper describes the clinical and research evidence for the importance of the relational
context of posttraumatic stress disorder in young children. We review 17 studies that …

Study of attachment in the 1970s and 1980s focused on operationalizing and validating
many of the tenets of attachment theory articulated in Bowlby's landmark trilogy, Attachment …

First published in 2000. Attachment Theory is the current dominant theory of parent-child
relationships and their influence on development. The theory has generated an ever …

Maternal traumatization has been proposed as a risk factor for child development, but the
mechanisms involved are poorly understood. This study analyzed the interrelations among …