Infant Mental Health Archives - Page 5 of 6

Accuracy of the Whooley questions and the Edinburgh Postnatal Depression Scale in identifying depression and other mental disorders in early pregnancy

Feb 13, 2018

Howard L, Ryan E, Trevillion K, et al. British Journal of Psychiatry 212(1): 50-56. Published online January 2018. doi 10.1192/bjp.2017.9 As the link between perinatal depression and later childhood conduct problems becomes clearer, this study d...

Understanding the connection between attachment trauma and maternal self-efficacy in depressed mothers

Jan 13, 2018

Brazeau, N., Reisz, S., Jacobvitz, D. and George, C. Infant Ment. Health J 2018; 39: 30–43. doi:10.1002/imhj.21692 This study demonstrates that the connection between previous maternal trauma and later self-efficacy is mediated by postpartum dep...

Top-down and bottom-up: The role of social information processing and mindfulness as predictors in maternal-infant interaction

Jan 13, 2018

Pickard, J. A., Townsend, M. L., Caputi, P. and Grenyer, B. F.S. Infant Ment. Health J. 2018; 39: 44–54. doi:10.1002/imhj.21687 This longitudinal study found that prenatal maternal language use predicted later ability to respond to infant distre...

The magic of play: Low income mothers’ and fathers’ playfulness and children’s emotion regulation and vocabulary skills

Dec 14, 2017

Cabrera, N. J., Karberg, E., Malin, J. L. and Aldoney, D. (2017). Infant Ment. Health J., 38: 757–771. doi:10.1002/imhj.21682 Although play is important for children’s development, the way in which mothers’ and fathers’ play affect their c...

Child-care quality moderates the association between maternal depression and children’s behavioural outcome

Nov 12, 2017

Charrois, J., Côté, S. M., Japel, C., et al. J Child Psychol Psychiatr. 2017; 58: 1210–1218. doi:10.1111/jcpp.12764 Maternal depression during the early years of a child’s life (prenatal/postnatal) has long been associated with long-term emo...

Infant Mental and Emotional Disorder: Report of the Task Force of the World Association for Infant Mental Health

Nov 12, 2017

Lyons-Ruth, K., Todd Manly, J., Von Klitzing, et al. Infant Ment. Health J. Published online October 2017. doi:10.1002/imhj.21674 This summary of current knowledge about infant mental health disorders by some of the leading researchers in the fi...

Paternal and Maternal Reflective Functioning in the Western Australian Peel Child Health Study

Oct 2, 2017

Cooke, D., Priddis, L., Luyten, P., Kendall, G. and Cavanagh, R. Infant Ment. Health J. 2017; 38: 561–574. doi:10.1002/imhj.21664 This study of 120 sets of Australian parents is important because it is one of the few studies that examines both m...

Post-Up Study: Postpartum Depression Screening in Well-Child Care and Maternal Outcomes

Oct 2, 2017

van der Zee-van den Berg AI, et al. Pediatrics. 2017 Sep 07. This study of 3000 new mothers screened for postnatal depression ad 1,3 and 6 months post-delivery showed that significantly fewer mothers in the intervention group were depressed or a...

Grandmaternal Stress During Pregnancy and DNA Methylation of the Third Generation: An Epigenome-Wide Association Study

Sep 5, 2017

F Serpeloni et al. Transl Psychiatry 7 (8), e1202. 2017 Aug 15. Changes in DNA methylation are postulated to underlie the transmission of stress-related effects from one generation to another. This Brazilian study of 121 families found that infan...

Association between maternal childhood trauma and offspring childhood psychopathology: mediation analysis from the ALSPAC cohort