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

Slade, Arietta; Holland, Margaret L.; Ordway, Monica Roosa; Carlson, Elizabeth A.; Jeon, Sangchoon; Close, Nancy; Mayes, Linda C.; Sadler, Lois S.

doi:10.1017/s0954579418001463

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“…Research findings clearly indicate that infants' attachment security is enhanced when parents participate in these short-term programs, especially when parents themselves show improved post-intervention responsiveness [45]. Similar positive effects have been obtained in studies of more intensive and longer (20 weeks to 1 year) intervention programs [46][47][48]. Most of these interventions include psychotherapy aimed at correcting parents' attachment-related fears and defenses that interfere with care provision.…”

Section: Enhancing Security In Real-life Social-relational Contextsmentioning

confidence: 56%

Enhancing the “Broaden and Build” Cycle of Attachment Security in Adulthood: From the Laboratory to Relational Contexts and Societal Systems

Mikulincer

Shaver

2020

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Attachment theory emphasizes both the importance of the availability of caring, supportive relationship partners, beginning in infancy, for developing a sense of safety and security, and the beneficial effects of this sense of security on psychosocial functioning and physical and mental health. In this article, we briefly review basic concepts of attachment theory, focusing on the core construct of attachment security and present evidence concerning the ways in which this sense can be enhanced in adulthood. Specifically, we review findings from laboratory experiments that have momentarily enhanced the sense of attachment security and examined its effects on emotion regulation, psychological functioning, and prosocial behavior. We then review empirical findings and ideas concerning security enhancement by actual relationship partners, non-human symbolic figures, and societal systems in a wide variety of life domains, such as marital relationships, psychotherapy, education, health and medicine, leadership and management, group interactions, religion, law, and government.

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Section: Enhancing Security In Real-life Social-relational Contextsmentioning

confidence: 56%

Enhancing the “Broaden and Build” Cycle of Attachment Security in Adulthood: From the Laboratory to Relational Contexts and Societal Systems

Mikulincer

Shaver

2020

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“…Content was structured around client-identified needs using the Beginnings Guides for Pregnancy and Parenting [ 28 ]. RNCMs stimulated problem solving skills using reflective function [ 29 ]. They monitored physical, psycho-social, and environmental status.…”

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Conditions and Dynamics That Impact Maternal Health Literacy among High Risk Prenatal-Interconceptional Women

Thomas¹,

Mobley

Hudgins

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The purpose of the study was to describe conditions and dynamics in the lives of high-risk, low-income, Southern United States prenatal-interconceptional women (n = 37) in a home visiting program that promoted maternal health literacy progression. In the Life Course Health Development (LCHD) Model, conditions were risk and protective factors that impacted health. Dynamics drove the complex, epigenetic relationships between risk and protective factors. Maternal health literacy promotion helped participants address conditions and dynamics to create positive life changes. This research was a retrospective, mixed methods study of women’s service records documenting care from prenatal admission to 24 months post-delivery. The Life Skills Progression Instrument (LSP) was scored to measure maternal health literacy progression. Ethnographic content analysis of visit notes triangulated with quantitative data enabled specificity of critical data elements. Subsequently, a complementary focus group was conducted with the Registered Nurse Case Managers (RNCM). Severe social conditions included devastating poverty, low educational achievement, transient housing, unstable relationships, incarceration, lack of continuous health insurance, and shortage of health care providers. Dynamics included severe psycho-social stressors, domestic violence, lack of employment, low income, low self-esteem and self-expectations, and social/family restraints upon women’s intended positive changes. An important protective factor was the consistent, stable, evidence-informed relationship with the RNCM. Findings from the focus group discussion supported content analysis results.

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“…The objective of this review is therefore to systematically review the effects of parenting interventions on the parent-child relationship and child development outcomes when offered to pregnant women or mothers with depressive symptoms who have infants aged 0-12 months. We included randomised controlled trials (RCTs) of interventions that aimed at improving parenting in a broad sense (such as Circle of Security 46 or Minding the Baby 47 ) and that reported on the parent-child relationship (for example attachment or parent-child relationship) or child development (for example socioemotional or cognitive development) outcomes at post-intervention or follow-up.…”

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Effects of parenting interventions for mothers with depressive symptoms and an infant: systematic review and meta-analysis

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Background Postpartum depression is common in the perinatal period and poses a risk for the development of the infant and the mother–infant relationship. Infancy is a critical developmental period of life and supportive parenting is crucial for healthy development, however, the effects of interventions aimed at improving parenting among mothers with depression are uncertain. Aims To assess the effects of parenting interventions on parent–child relationship and child development among mothers with depressive symptoms with 0–12-month-old infants. Method We conducted a systematic review with the inclusion criteria: (a) randomised controlled trials of structured psychosocial parenting interventions for women with depressive symptoms and a child aged 0–12 months in Western Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development countries, (b) minimum three sessions with at least half of these delivered postnatally and (c) outcomes relating to the parent–child-relationship and/or child development. Publications were extracted from 10 databases in September 2018 and supplemented with grey search and hand search. We assessed risk of bias, calculated effect sizes and conducted meta-analysis. Results Eight papers representing seven trials were included. We conducted meta-analysis on the post-intervention parent–child relationship. The analysis included six studies and showed no significant effect. For individual study outcomes, no significant effects on the majority of both the parent–child relationship and child development outcomes were reported. Conclusions No evidence of the effect of parenting interventions for mothers with depressive symptoms was found on the parent–child relationship and child development. Larger studies with follow-up assessments are needed, and future reviews should examine the effects in non-Western countries.

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

Cited by 132 publications

References 84 publications

Enhancing the “Broaden and Build” Cycle of Attachment Security in Adulthood: From the Laboratory to Relational Contexts and Societal Systems

Enhancing the “Broaden and Build” Cycle of Attachment Security in Adulthood: From the Laboratory to Relational Contexts and Societal Systems

Conditions and Dynamics That Impact Maternal Health Literacy among High Risk Prenatal-Interconceptional Women

Effects of parenting interventions for mothers with depressive symptoms and an infant: systematic review and meta-analysis

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