Major developments in attachment research over the past 2 decades have introduced
parental mentalization as a predictor of infant–parent attachment security. Parental …

Mind-mindedness refers to a caregiver's tendency to treat the young child as an individual
with a mind of his or her own. It is assessed in the first year of life by the caregiver's tendency …

Childhood is the time when we forge our first social bonds, first learn how to express and
read basic human emotions, and first make sense of the physical world. In childhood …

Longitudinal research has demonstrated that responsive parental behaviors reliably predict
subsequent language gains in children with autism spectrum disorder. To investigate the …

Negative perceptions about the child and child behavior are implicit in parenting stress, a
construct associated with suboptimal parenting and child outcomes. We examined the extent …

The study focused on qualitative and quantitative differences between maternal and
paternal play interaction behaviours with their preschool children. Home observations of 18 …

Each day approximately three-quarters of a million adults around the world experience the
pleasures and profits as well as the trials and tribulations of becoming a new parent. Each …

Various lines of research suggest that parental mind-mindedness can facilitate children's
cognitive and social growth (eg, executive functions and social cognition) in addition to …

Parental mind-mindedness, the parent's propensity to treat the child as an intentional agent,
has repeatedly shown to promote children's development of social understanding and …

The four studies reported here sought to explore the nature of the construct of mind-
mindedness. In Study 1, involving 37 mothers of 5-to 8-year-old children, mothers' verbal …