Abstract The Strange Situation Procedure (SSP) was developed five decades ago to assess
infant–parent attachment relationships. Although the procedure itself has remained relatively …

Background Depression is experienced by women most often during their childbearing
years. 1 Over the last several decades, research has revealed that untreated maternal …

Sensitive caregiving behavior, which involves the ability to notice, interpret, and quickly
respond to a child's signals of need and/or interest, is a central determinant of secure child …

Introduction The purpose of this review was to determine the prevalence of anxiety among
fathers during the perinatal (pre-and post-natal) period. Methods A systematic search was …

Attachment security is theorized to shape stress reactivity, but extant work has failed to find
consistent links between attachment security to mothers and infant cortisol reactivity. We …

The purpose of the study was to determine the relationship between men's prenatal and
postnatal depressive symptom (PDS). In a descriptive study, 403 fathers meeting the …

The Handbook of Trauma, Traumatic Loss, and Adversity in Children is a developmentally
oriented book rich with findings related to child development, the impact of trauma on …

Introduction: Father-infant interactions are important for optimal offspring outcomes.
Moreover, paternal perinatal psychopathology is associated with psychological and …

This chapter provides a general overview of the ways in which fathers contribute to
children's early attachment development from infancy to early adolescence. It begins with a …

Few studies have explored the views of fathers in relation to daughters diagnosed with
anorexia nervosa (AN). The aim of this study was to investigate this aspect. This study was …