Mindfulness and acceptance and commitment therapy in the treatment of trauma.

Laifer, Alexandra L.; Wirth, Kristie A.; Lang, Ariel J.

doi:10.1037/0000020-012

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“…It highlights the possibility that the child plays an evocative role in their own psychopathology via influences on their caregivers, and also points to cognitive interventions and mindfulness strategies for caregivers as possible effective intervention strategies. Intervention strategies such as Acceptance and Commitment Therapy and mindfulness approaches have shown promise in helping parents consider traumatic events from their own childhood and move forward in healthy ways (Boyd et al, 2018;Laifer et al, 2017;Ruiz, 2010).…”

Section: The Moderating Role Of Rearing Mother Acesmentioning

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The pernicious role of stress on intergenerational continuity of psychopathology

Leve,

Oro,

Natsuaki

et al. 2024

Dev Psychopathol

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Development and Psychopathology has been a premier resource for understanding stressful childhood experiences and the intergenerational continuity of psychopathology. Building on that tradition, we examined the unique and joint influences of maternal stress on children’s effortful control (age 7) and externalizing behavior (age 11) as transmitted via genetics, the prenatal environment, and the postnatal environment. The sample included N = 561 adopted children and their biological and adoptive parents. Path models identified a direct effect of biological mother life stress on children’s effortful control (β = −.08) and an indirect effect of her life stress on child externalizing behavior via effortful control (β = .52), but no main or indirect effects of biological parent psychopathology, prenatal stress, or adoptive mother adverse childhood experiences (ACES). Adoptive mother ACES amplified the association between biological mother life stress and child effortful control (β = −.08), externalizing behavior (β = 1.41), and the indirect effect via effortful control, strengthening associations when adoptive mothers reported average or high ACES during their own childhoods. Results suggest that novel study designs are needed to enhance the understanding of how life stress gets “under the skin” to affect psychopathology in the offspring of adults who have experienced stress.

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Section: The Moderating Role Of Rearing Mother Acesmentioning

confidence: 99%