Interventions with depressed mothers and their infants: Modifying interactive behaviours

Jung, Vivienne; Short, Robert H.; Létourneau, Nicole; Andrews, Debbi

doi:10.1016/j.jad.2006.07.014

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“…The NCAST is a widely-used, standardized, 73 binary-item tool used to observe and rate quality of caregiver-child interactions with children ages birth to 36 months. (Use of the NCAST with substance abusing and psychiatrically at-risk populations has been reported by Huebner (2002) and Jung, Short, Letourneau, & Andrews, 2007). Mothers are asked to choose one task to teach the child (e.g., stringing beads, drawing shapes, grouping blocks by color, etc.)…”

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Reflective functioning in mothers with drug use disorders: Implications for dyadic interactions with infants and toddlers

Suchman

DeCoste

Leigh³

et al. 2010

Attachment & Human Development

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In this study, we examined maternal reflective functioning as a bi-dimensional construct in a sample of 47 mothers with drug use disorders and caring for infants and toddlers. We first tested a two-factor solution with scale items from the Parent Development Interview and confirmed the presence of two related but distinct dimensions – self-mentalization and child-mentalization. We then tested predictions that (a) self-mentalization would be associated with overall quality of maternal caregiving and that (b) child-mentalization would be associated with (i) maternal contingent behavior and (ii) child communication. Results partially supported hypotheses (a) and (bii). Unexpectedly, self-mentalization alone was associated with maternal contingent behavior. Findings suggest that self-mentalization may be a critical first step in improving mother-child relations involving mothers with drug use disorders. Implications for theory and practice are discussed.

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Reflective functioning in mothers with drug use disorders: Implications for dyadic interactions with infants and toddlers

Suchman

DeCoste

Leigh³

et al. 2010

Attachment & Human Development

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216

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“…Depressed parents seem to provide inadequate care to their offspring, which in turn impairs emotional and cognitive development [104]. Parents with depression are less emotionally attached to their infants, display less affection and interact less overall [3,105], qualities that infants seem to be able to detect.…”

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Parenting and plasticity

Leuner

Glasper

Gould

2010

Trends in Neurosciences

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As any new parent knows, having a baby provides opportunities for enrichment, learning and stress -experiences known to change the adult brain. Yet surprisingly little is known about the effects of maternal experience, and even less about the effects of paternal experience, on neural circuitry not directly involved in parenting. Here we discuss how caregiving and the accompanying experiential and hormonal changes influence the hippocampus and prefrontal cortex, brain regions involved in cognition and mood regulation. A better understanding of how parenting impacts the brain is likely to help in devising strategies for treating parental depression, a condition that can have serious cognitive and mental health consequences for children.

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“…An association could be due to cause or effect [84] or both. Depression and impaired ‘bonding' often have a different severity and timing, and a different response to treatment [85,86,87,88,89]. Listing impaired bonding under the features of postpartum depression unfairly stigmatizes depressed mothers, many of whom have normal relationships with their infants [90].…”

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Emotional Rejection of the Infant: Status of the Concept

Brockington

2016

Psychopathology

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Emotional rejection of the infant is a morbid, clinical phenomenon, central to mother-infant psychiatry. It occurs in about 1% of births in the general population, but much more often in mothers referred to specialist services. It has severe consequences for children, but responds well to treatment. It is now better recognized, but research is required, especially cohort studies and neuroscientific investigations.

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Interventions with depressed mothers and their infants: Modifying interactive behaviours

Cited by 40 publications

References 16 publications

Reflective functioning in mothers with drug use disorders: Implications for dyadic interactions with infants and toddlers

Reflective functioning in mothers with drug use disorders: Implications for dyadic interactions with infants and toddlers

Parenting and plasticity

Emotional Rejection of the Infant: Status of the Concept

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