Assessing angels in the nursery: A pilot study of childhood memories of benevolent caregiving as protective influences
Narayan AJ, Ippen CG, Harris WW, Lieberman AF
Infant Mental Helth Journal 4 July 2017. DOI: 10.1002/imhj.21653
This pilot study provides the first empirical evidence for Selma Fraiberg’s concept of angels in the nursery (i.e. that parents’ memories of feeling loved by their own caregivers moderate parents’ own caring behaviours toward their children and their own symptoms of PTSD) using the Angels in the Nursery interview (Van Horn et al., 2008). ‘Ghost memories’ (i.e. traumatic parental memories) were not found to mediate childhood maltreatment or adult PTSD symptoms.
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