Mentalizing makes parenting work: A review about parental reflective functioning and clinical interventions to improve it

A Camoirano - Frontiers in psychology, 2017 - frontiersin.org
In the last decade several studies have investigated the role of parental reflective functioning
(RF), defined as the parental ability to understand his/her child's mental states, on the child's …

Perinatal depression, PTSD, and trauma: Impact on mother–infant attachment and interventions to mitigate the transmission of risk

N Erickson, M Julian, M Muzik - International review of psychiatry, 2019 - Taylor & Francis
Early interactions between infants and their caregivers are fundamental to child
development, and the parent–infant relationship is believed to provide the foundation for …

Maternal reflective functioning among mothers with childhood maltreatment histories: Links to sensitive parenting and infant attachment security

AM Stacks, M Muzik, K Wong, M Beeghly… - Attachment & human …, 2014 - Taylor & Francis
This study examined relationships among maternal reflective functioning, parenting, infant
attachment, and demographic risk in a relatively large (N= 83) socioeconomically diverse …

A systematic review of risk and protective factors for externalizing problems in children exposed to intimate partner violence

VC Fong, D Hawes, JL Allen - Trauma, Violence, & Abuse, 2019 - journals.sagepub.com
Intimate partner violence (IPV) is a serious public health issue with innumerable costs to the
victims, children, and families affected as well as society at large. The evidence is conclusive …

Intergenerational pathways from reflective functioning to infant attachment through parenting.

K Ensink, L Normandin, A Plamondon… - Canadian Journal of …, 2016 - psycnet.apa.org
L'objectif de cette étude prospective était d'examiner le cheminement dans le temps des
mères, au moyen de leur fonctionnement réflexif (FR), du parentage et de l'attachement de …

War trauma lingers on: Associations between maternal posttraumatic stress disorder, parent–child interaction, and child development

E Van Ee, RJ Kleber… - Infant mental health journal, 2012 - Wiley Online Library
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 …

Parenting after a history of childhood maltreatment: A scoping review and map of evidence in the perinatal period

C Chamberlain, G Gee, S Harfield, S Campbell… - PloS one, 2019 - journals.plos.org
Background and aims Child maltreatment is a global health priority affecting up to half of all
children worldwide, with profound and ongoing impacts on physical, social and emotional …

Parental reflective functioning and its association with parenting behaviors in infancy and early childhood: A systematic review

LY Stuhrmann, A Göbel, C Bindt, S Mudra - Frontiers in psychology, 2022 - frontiersin.org
Background Parental reflective functioning (PRF) refers to parents' mental capacity to
understand their own and their children's behaviors in terms of envisioned mental states. As …

Relational patterns between caregivers with PTSD and their nonexposed children: A review

E Van Ee, RJ Kleber… - Trauma, Violence, & …, 2016 - journals.sagepub.com
The question as to whether or not children can be affected by the traumatization of their
parents has been the topic of a long-standing debate. This article provides a critical review …

New Beginnings for mothers and babies in prison: A cluster randomized controlled trial

M Sleed, T Baradon, P Fonagy - Attachment & human development, 2013 - Taylor & Francis
Mothers in prison represent a high-risk parenting population. New Beginnings is an
attachment-based group intervention designed specifically for mothers and babies in prison …