Parent-infant interactions in families with women diagnosed with postnatal depression: a longitudinal study on the effects of a psychodynamic treatment

Tambelli, Renata; Cerniglia, Luca; Cimino, Silvia; Ballarotto, Giulia

doi:10.3389/fpsyg.2015.01210

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“…Moreover, it has been found that the interaction of maternal depression and early maternal experiences of neglect and emotional abuse, predicted maladaptive scores on mothers' SVIA subscale affective state of the dyad. This result underlined the role of maternal psychological functioning on the quality of mother-infant and father-infant interactions (Tambelli, Cimino, Cerniglia & Ballarotto, 2015). As regard to fathers, data analyses found that paternal anxiety influenced child's food refusal during feeding, coherent with Ramchandani's study (2013).…”

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Parent-Child Interactions in Families with Mothers who had Experienced Early Relational Traumas

Ballarotto

2016

European Proceedings of Social &Amp; Behavioural Sciences

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Early maternal relational traumas can have an impact on mothers' psychopathological risk and mother-infant interactions. Research has suggested the importance of fathers' role as protection or risk factors for child's development. Few studies had considered fathers in the assessment of the quality of parent-infants interactions during daily routines (e.g. feeding) and there is a lack of research on non-referred samples. This paper aims to assess the quality of parent-infant interactions during feeding in families with mothers who have experienced early relational traumas, such as emotional abuse and neglect or sexual/physical abuse, considering parental psychopathological risks. N= 98 families were recruited and divided into three groups: families with mothers who lived through early sexual/physical abuse (Group A); families with mothers who lived through early emotional abuse or neglect (Group B); healthy controls (Group C). Families were assessed at 6 months of the children with a protocol that included an observation of parent-infant interactions during feeding and a self-report assessing psychopathological risk. Group B showed more maladaptive mother-infants and father-infant interactions with their children. Results show that the interaction of maternal depression and early traumatic experiences of neglect and emotional abuse predicted more maladaptive scores on the affective state of the dyad subscale. Furthermore, paternal anxiety predicted higher scores of child's food refusal subscales. These results are very important for the planning of prevention and / or treatment , which take into account of the whole family.

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Parent-Child Interactions in Families with Mothers who had Experienced Early Relational Traumas

Ballarotto

2016

European Proceedings of Social &Amp; Behavioural Sciences

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“…The current findings add to this body of literature and suggest that parental empathy may be a key target for parenting interventions. Parenting behavior in parents with depression can be positively impacted by appropriate intervention [77,78]. Emphasizing empathy for one's own child may be particularly impactful for parents at risk for more negative parenting behaviors such as those with depression or postpartum depression, and might also be beneficial if incorporated into broader programs of treatment.…”

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Depressive symptoms in parents are associated with reduced empathy toward their young children

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Background While depression is typically associated with reduced levels of empathy, this association differs depending on how empathy is measured. Given the importance of empathy in the parent-child relationship, we sought to examine whether the associations between depression and dispositional empathy would also extend to empathy towards one's own child. Methods Within a non-clinical sample of 150 parents of young children, we examined the associations between self-reported depressive symptoms, dispositional empathic tendencies, and empathy specifically toward their own children, and how these associations might differ based on parent gender. Results Depressive symptoms were related to lower levels of cognitive and affective empathy, and higher levels of empathic distress. Over and above the association with dispositional empathy, depressive symptoms were associated with reduced levels of parents' affective empathy toward their own child. The associations between depressive symptoms and both dispositional and own-child specific empathy varied by parent gender. For fathers, depressive symptoms predicted own-child specific affective empathy, over and above dispositional affective empathy, while for mothers, depressive symptoms predicted own-child specific empathic distress, over and above dispositional empathic distress. Conclusions The current findings provide further indication that caregivers with elevated depression may engage in patterns of thoughts and behaviors that have implications for their interactions with their children. Parents' experienced empathy toward their own child may be one mechanism by which depression impacts the early caregiving environment, and thus may be an important target for intervention in improving the early caregiving experiences for children at PLOS ONE

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“…In total, the study contacted 3,812 families with the general aim of an assessment of need, with the possibility of intervention offered to all families only after that. The intervention program was offered to all families in need and was designed to include Home Visiting (Lyons‐Ruth et al., 2006; Olds et al., ; Tambelli, Cerniglia, Cimino, & Ballarotto, ); Parent Counselling (Holden et al., ; Murray et al., ); and Psychological Support with Video‐feedback Intervention (Downing, ; Stein, Woolley, Cooper, et al, ). One session of video‐feedback regarding the parent–infant interaction during feeding (with trained psychologists) was guaranteed to all families.…”

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Impact of Parental Binge Eating Disorder: Exploring Children's Emotional/Behavioral Problems and the Quality of Parent–child Feeding Interactions

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Porreca

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Infant Mental Health Journal

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This study examines psychopathological problems in children of parents with binge eating disorder (BED), particularly the effect of parental diagnosis on their offspring's psychopathology and the mediating power of the quality of parent-infant feeding interactions. Two hundred parents and their offspring were administered a questionnaire for the assessment of their children's psychopathology at 18 (T1) and 36 (T2) months of age. An observational measure to evaluate feeding interactions was administered at T1. Children with both parents with BED showed the highest affective, anxiety, oppositional/defiant, and autism spectrum problems, but no influence of paternal diagnosis was found on the offspring's psychopathology. Maternal BED had an influence on children's affective and autism spectrum problems, and diagnosis of BED in both parents had an effect on infants' affective problems. Paternal BED had an effect on oppositional/defiant problems through the quality of father-infant interactions, and maternal BED had an effect on the offspring's affective and anxiety problems through the mediation of mother-infant interactions. These results suggest the importance of intervention programs focusing both on parental psychopathology and on mother-child and father-child feeding interactions in families with parents with BED.

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Parent-infant interactions in families with women diagnosed with postnatal depression: a longitudinal study on the effects of a psychodynamic treatment

Cited by 38 publications

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Parent-Child Interactions in Families with Mothers who had Experienced Early Relational Traumas

Parent-Child Interactions in Families with Mothers who had Experienced Early Relational Traumas

Depressive symptoms in parents are associated with reduced empathy toward their young children

Impact of Parental Binge Eating Disorder: Exploring Children's Emotional/Behavioral Problems and the Quality of Parent–child Feeding Interactions

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