Parents Who Abuse: What Are They Thinking?

Seng, Alexandra C.; Prinz, Ronald J.

doi:10.1007/s10567-008-0035-y

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“…This indicates that the presence of more risk factors places a higher demand on the mother‐to‐be, resulting in less mental resources to think about the future child and the upcoming motherhood. These findings are in line with the majority of existing studies indicating that the presence of risk factors negatively affects mothers’ RF ability, with HR women have lower RF and more negative mental representations (Huth‐Bocks et al., ; Leigh, ; Seng & Prinz, ; Theran et al., ). An exception to the rule is a study by Perry et al (), who found similar prenatal RF levels for both HR and LR women.…”

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“…Children from an “at‐risk” population generally have higher chances of less favorable developmental outcomes. These risk factors impact child development either directly or indirectly through parenting capacities and parent–child interactions (Cyr, Euser, Bakermans‐Kranenburg, & van IJzendoorn, ; Seng & Prinz, ). Parental RF could potentially be an important target for prevention and intervention programs, as it has been associated with certain established risk factors, parenting behaviors, and child outcomes (Benbassat & Priel, ; Rosenblum et al., ; Sharp & Fonagy, ).…”

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confidence: 99%

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Prenatal Reflective Functioning in Primiparous Women With a High‐risk Profile

Smaling

Huijbregts

Suurland

et al. 2015

Infant Mental Health Journal

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The concept of maternal reflective functioning (RF) has been gaining increasing interest as a possible intermediate mechanism in associations between a wide range of psychosocial risk factors and poor child outcomes. The purpose of the present study was to determine which psychosocial risk factors are linked to prenatal RF in a high-risk (HR) group of primiparous women. Differences in prenatal RF between the HR group and a low-risk (LR) control group also were examined. The sample consisted of 162 women (M = 22.22 years, SD = 2.39; 83 classified as HR). RF was coded from the Pregnancy Interview (A. Slade, 2007a). Risk status was assessed by means of the Mini-International Neuropsychiatric Interview-plus (M.I.N.I.-plus; D.V. Sheehan et al., 1997) and several questionnaires. HR women demonstrated significantly lower RF quality than did the LR group. Regression analyses indicated that maternal education, size of social support network, and substance use during pregnancy were the strongest predictors of prenatal RF for the HR group. The results suggest that maternal RF potentially could be an important target for those prevention and intervention programs that aim to reduce adverse psychosocial development in offspring of HR mothers.

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Prenatal Reflective Functioning in Primiparous Women With a High‐risk Profile

Smaling

Huijbregts

Suurland

et al. 2015

Infant Mental Health Journal

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“…; Seng & Prinz ). In abusive families, there are more negative and less positive interactions between parents and children (Seng & Prinz ), and family conflicts were found to be essential in crisis situations with adolescents having psychiatric problems (e.g. Günter et al .…”

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A programme evaluation of theFamilyCrisisInterventionProgram (FCIP): relating programme characteristics to change

Stams

Asscher

et al. 2012

Child & Family Social Work

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This study evaluated the Family Crisis Intervention Program (FCIP), focusing on crisis, child safety, family functioning and child behaviour problems. Questionnaires were completed by 183 families in crisis and their FCIP worker. After FCIP, the crisis had decreased and child safety had increased. Although problematic family functioning persisted after intervention, improvements were found in parent–child interaction, parenting stress, parental competence and child behaviour problems. Crisis change, safety change and improved family functioning were associated with programme characteristics, especially the therapeutic relationship, analysis of the crisis situation, duration of the intervention and the solution‐focused approach. The discussion addressed implications of this study with regard to outcome measures in the evaluation of family crisis intervention and the importance of particular programme characteristics.

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“…Discussed are factors that may explain parental maladaptive schema, executive functioning problems, and maladaptive appraisals. Seng & Prinz [13] focused on a broader ecological context. While cognitions may occur at an individual level they are shaped in part by interpersonal, intrapersonal, direct and indirect environmental factors.…”

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Can cognitive maps provide insight into women who hurt their children?

Mugavin

Sapién²

2016

JNEP

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Efforts to organize information relative to complex, multifaceted issues such as fatal and nonfatal child abuse can be daunting but are essential to the development of adequate strategies for recognition of at-risk mothers and, ultimately, for prevention-focused interventions. The purpose of this exploratory descriptive pilot study using quantitative and qualitative techniques was to determine what constellation of antecedents broadly categorized as vulnerabilities and triggers may be associated with fatal or nonfatal abuse from the viewpoint of the mother/perpetrator. Due to challenges in accessing the study population, a convenience sample of 88 women incarcerated for fatal and nonfatal abuse was drawn from four women's prisons in three Southwestern United States. A structured questionnaire consisting of 68 paired comparisons was administered to participants. Participants rated the vulnerabilities and triggers for dissimilarity and ranked their relative importance. Priority ratings were obtained from responses to content analysis questions. Multidimensional scaling (MDS) and clustering methodologies were used to generate cognitive maps of the concepts in relation to one another. The two groups shared common underlying structures consisting of three disparate clusters, "Family Intimacy", "Negative Emotion", and "Abuse". They diverged in vulnerabilities and triggers that had the most profound impact on their thinking and behavior. Both groups had a similar underlying structure for antecedents to these crimes, but evaluative responses showed differences between women convicted of fatal versus nonfatal abuse.

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Parents Who Abuse: What Are They Thinking?

Cited by 34 publications

References 60 publications

Prenatal Reflective Functioning in Primiparous Women With a High‐risk Profile

Prenatal Reflective Functioning in Primiparous Women With a High‐risk Profile

A programme evaluation of theFamilyCrisisInterventionProgram (FCIP): relating programme characteristics to change

Can cognitive maps provide insight into women who hurt their children?

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