“Having a Baby Changes Everything” Reflective Functioning in Pregnant Adolescents

Sadler, Lois S.; Novick, Gina; Meadows‐Oliver, Mikki

doi:10.1016/j.pedn.2015.11.011

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“…This result is similar to findings that individuals capable of perceiving themselves as parents and their relationships with their child will seek out social support [22]. In addition, PM had a positive relationship with satisfaction and perceived stress.…”

Section: Intercorrelations Among Measuressupporting

confidence: 85%

“…The development of the RF neurological function is noteworthy as it provides individuals with the ability to predict behaviour, distinguish between manifestation and reality, and enhance interpersonal communications, self-organization [3], impulse control and affect regulation [7]. relationships with their child; therefore, seeking out social support [22] and enhancing parental coping abilities [23].…”

Section: Introductionmentioning

confidence: 99%

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Advancing Optimal Development in Children: Examining the Construct Validity of a Parent Reflective Functioning Questionnaire (Preprint)

Roo¹,

Wong²,

Rempel³

et al. 2018

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Objective: We sought to examine the factor structure and select psychometric properties of the PRFQ in a sample of Canadian parents. Methods:We examined the factor structure and discriminant and construct validity of the PRFQ-18 among 308 parents (Males=120; Females=186) across Canada who also completed online measures of perceived stress, parental coping Scale, parenting competence social support.Results: A confirmatory factor analysis (CFA) confirmed the hypothesized 3-factor structure of the PRFQ-18 providing evidence that the PRFQ-18 may be a useful and practical measure of PRF in Canadian adults and showed minor revisions may improve the suitability of the PRFQ-18 for assessing PRF. Conclusions IntroductionDecades of research unequivocally demonstrate that reflective processes enhance parental insight and sensitivity toward children's emotions [1]. Reflective functioning (RF), first introduced by Fonagy and colleagues in 1991 describes an individual's cognitive capacity to recognize and interpret one's own mental state as well as the mental state of others to identify and comprehend meaning behind behaviour [2,3]. In the literature, RF is akin to mentalizating, which is a fundamental and intrinsic human capacity to regulate affect and attune to interpersonal relationships [4]. Likewise, maternal mind-mindedness is described as a mother's ability to recognize her child as a separate agent with independent thoughts, experiences, and emotions [5], and parental insightfulness is defined as a parent's representation of their child's intentions and mental states [6].Rather than a natural ability, RF is believed to develop through the internal organization of an individual's understanding of one's own and other's feelings and behaviours through experiences, social and emotional information, meaning making [2,3] and interactions with primary caregivers [7,2,3]. In addition, social interactions, family structure, family size, parenting quality [7] and environmental responses [8] influence the development of RF. The development of the RF neurological function is noteworthy as it provides individuals with the ability to predict behaviour, distinguish between manifestation and reality, and enhance interpersonal communications, self-organization [3], impulse control and affect regulation [7].Understanding the development of RF is crucial given the relationship between how a parent chooses to respond to their child's needs, which affects the child's attachment status [2,9,10] as PARENT REFLECTIVE FUNCTIONING 4 well as the child's development and capacity to mentalize [1]; and circumscribes the health of the parent-child relationship overall [11,12].Parental reflective functioning (PRF) pertains to a parent's proclivity to understand and comprehend mental states influencing their child's behaviour [13]; playing a crucial role in how parents respond to their child`s needs and feelings [9,14], and behaviors [3]. Parent reflective functioning is a core cognitive capacity that connects parents to their child's emotions and a...

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Section: Intercorrelations Among Measuressupporting

confidence: 85%

Section: Introductionmentioning

confidence: 99%

Advancing Optimal Development in Children: Examining the Construct Validity of a Parent Reflective Functioning Questionnaire (Preprint)

Roo¹,

Wong²,

Rempel³

et al. 2018

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“…Their stories showed how they need social support in order to face the challenges of pregnancy and motherhood. Similarly to our findings, some authors have pointed out how young mothers felt being neglected by parents and other adults or how they lack social support [44,47,48].…”

Section: Discussionsupporting

confidence: 90%

Experiences of pregnancy in adolescence of internally displaced women in Bogotá: an ethnographic approach

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Background: Pregnancy in adolescence is higher among internally displaced women in Colombia than nondisplaced women. It is defined as a problem with significant negative outcomes by both biomedical and epidemiological approaches. However, little is known about pregnancy during adolescence from the perspective of women who experienced this in the specific context of armed conflict and displacement. Aim: This article focuses on how internally displaced women understand their experiences of pregnancy in adolescence in the context of armed conflict through an ethnographic approach in a receptor community of internally displaced women in Bogotá, Colombia. Methods: Based on 10 years of experience in the community, we conducted 1 year of fieldwork, using an ethnographic approach. We collected life stories of 20 internally displaced women through in-depth interviews and ran 8 workshops with them and other women from the community. We used thematic analysis to analyse the responses of internally-displaced women and understand how they made meaning around their experiences of adolescent pregnancy in the context of displacement. Results: The main themes that emerged from participants' experiences include rural violence, early family life (characterized by violence and mistreatment at home), meanings of pregnancy at an early age (including being challenged and feelings of love), and reactions to their pregnancies during adolescence (such as stigmatization) from their families and partners. Conclusion: Our analysis of the in-depth interviews and the workshops suggests that adolescent pregnancy among women who are internally displaced has complex dynamics, characterized by the violent context of the rural areas, but primarily by the violence experienced during their childhood. The experience of pregnancy during adolescence brings feelings of ownership and also challenges, together with the forced displacement. This understanding will provide insights for policy makers and healthcare providers on how to work with this specific population who have experienced pregnancy in adolescence.

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“…The PI is a 22-item clinical interview designed to assess a woman's emotional experience of pregnancy and the nature of her developing relationship with her baby. This interview has been used in a range of samples (Pajulo et al, 2012;Sadler et al, 2016;Smaling et al, 2015Smaling et al, , 2016. Audio-taped responses were transcribed verbatim, and the transcript was scored by coders blind to group status, using the RF scoring system described below, adapted for use with the Monthly or less 6 (7.9%) 6 (7.6%)…”

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Minding the Baby®: Enhancing parental reflective functioning and infant attachment in an attachment-based, interdisciplinary home visiting program

Slade¹,

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In this article, we describe the results of the second phase of a randomized controlled trial of Minding the Baby (MTB), an interdisciplinary reflective parenting intervention for infants and their families. Young first-time mothers living in underserved, poor, urban communities received intensive home visiting services from a nurse and social worker team for 27 months, from pregnancy to the child's second birthday. Results indicate that MTB mothers' levels of reflective functioning was more likely to increase over the course of the intervention than were those of control group mothers. Likewise, infants in the MTB group were significantly more likely to be securely attached, and significantly less likely to be disorganized, than infants in the control group. We discuss our findings in terms of their contribution to understanding the impacts and import of intensive intervention with vulnerable families during the earliest stages of parenthood in preventing the intergenerational transmission of disrupted relationships and insecure attachment.

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“Having a Baby Changes Everything” Reflective Functioning in Pregnant Adolescents

Cited by 23 publications

References 43 publications

Advancing Optimal Development in Children: Examining the Construct Validity of a Parent Reflective Functioning Questionnaire (Preprint)

Advancing Optimal Development in Children: Examining the Construct Validity of a Parent Reflective Functioning Questionnaire (Preprint)

Experiences of pregnancy in adolescence of internally displaced women in Bogotá: an ethnographic approach

Minding the Baby®: Enhancing parental reflective functioning and infant attachment in an attachment-based, interdisciplinary home visiting program

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