The early relationship of drug abusing mothers and their infants: An assessment at eight to twelve months of age

Burns, Kayreen A.; Chethik, Leigh; Burns, William J.; Clark, Robert C.

doi:10.1002/(sici)1097-4679(199704)53:3<279::aid-jclp11>3.3.co;2-p

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“…Indeed, with only gestational age and sex as covariates, we did find a group difference in one of our social-emotional measures (dyadic interaction): Exposed toddlers and their caregivers were less emotionally expressive and responsive to each other during a feeding episode. Although this finding is similar to those observed by others during separation and reunion episodes (Beeghly et al, 2003;Burns, Chethik, Burns, & Clark, 1997;Molitor, Mayes, & Ward, 2003;Ukeje, Bendersky, & Lewis, 2001), this effect no longer achieved a conventional level of statistical significance when caregiver characteristics and the caregiving environment were taken into account. Thus, we return to a point we made earlier: To evaluate child outcome, type of care needs to be taken into consideration.…”

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Prenatal Cocaine Exposure: A Comparison of 2‐Year‐Old Children in Parental and Nonparental Care

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Effects of prenatal cocaine exposure and parental versus nonparental care on outcome at 2 years of age were examined. The sample included 83 cocaine-exposed and 63 nonexposed children and their caregivers; 49 and 34 of the cocaine-exposed children experienced parental and nonparental care, respectively. Prenatal drug exposure was not related directly to children's outcome at 2 years of age. However, compared with cocaine-exposed children in parental care, those in nonparental care experienced a more optimal environment and performed better in several developmental domains at 2 years of age in spite of being at greater neonatal risk. Further analyses suggested that this protective effect of nonparental care was in part due to nonkin rather than kin care.

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Prenatal Cocaine Exposure: A Comparison of 2‐Year‐Old Children in Parental and Nonparental Care

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“…As a group, drug-dependent mothers fare worse than non drug-dependent mothers on a wide range of parenting indices and more frequently lose their children to foster care than non drug-dependent mothers (Chaffin, Kelleher, and Hollenberg, 1996;Mayes & Bornstein, 1996). Observations of mother-infant dyads have shown patterns of mothersT poor sensitivity and responsiveness to childrenTs emotional cues juxtaposed with heightened physical activity, provocation, and intrusiveness (Burns, Chethik, Burns, & Clark, 1997;Hans, Bernstein, & Henson, 1999;Rodning, Beckwith, & Howard, 1991). Studies reporting perspectives of substance-abusing mothers about parenting have indicated a lack of understanding about basic child development issues, ambivalent feelings about having and keeping children, and lower capacities to reflect upon their childrenTs emotional and cognitive experience (Levy, Truman, & Mayes, 2001;Mayes & Truman, 2002;Murphy & Rosenbaum, 1999).…”

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Rethinking parenting interventions for drug-dependent mothers: From behavior management to fostering emotional bonds

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Journal of Substance Abuse Treatment

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“…One such pathway may be through problematic mother-infant interactions. Cocaine using mothers are more disengaged and passive during mother-infant interactions in the neonatal period [31], are less flexible and engaged during feeding interactions [40], have lower responsiveness and enthusiasm in later infancy [11,12], are less emotionally engaged in the toddler period [50], use fewer positive reinforcements and more threats of physical discipline in the toddler/preschool period [2], and are more hostile and intrusive in a structured teaching situation at 3 years of age [37]. The animal literature is supportive of these results indicating dose-dependent associations between cocaine treatment during gestation and disruptions in maternal caretaking behavior in the immediate post-partum period [52, 61, 66], perhaps due to decreased oxytocin levels [34,35,36,44,49].…”

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Maternal cocaine use and mother–infant interactions: Direct and moderated associations

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Schuetze

Coles

2011

Neurotoxicology and Teratology

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This study examined the associations between prenatal cocaine exposure and quality of mother-infant play interactions at 13 months of infant ages. We investigated whether maternal psychological distress and infant reactivity mediated or moderated this association. Participants consisted of 220 (119 cocaine exposed, 101 non-cocaine exposed) mother-infant dyads participating in an ongoing longitudinal study of prenatal cocaine exposure. Results indicated that mothers who used cocaine during pregnancy displayed higher negative affect and lower sensitivity toward their infant during play interactions at 13 months, and that their infants were less responsive toward them. Contrary to hypothesis, this association was not mediated by maternal psychological distress or by infant reactivity. However, results for both the cocaine and non-cocaine exposed infants were supportive of a transactional model where lower maternal sensitivity at 1 month was predictive of higher infant reactivity at 7 months, which in turn was predictive of lower maternal warmth/sensitivity at 13 months, controlling for potential stability in maternal behavior. Results also indicated that as hypothesized, infant reactivity moderated the association between maternal cocaine use during pregnancy and maternal warmth/sensitivity at 13 months of age. Cocaine using mothers who experienced their infants as being more reactive in early infancy were less warm/sensitive toward them in later infancy. Results have implications for parenting interventions that may be targeted toward improving maternal sensitivity among cocaine using mothers with more reactive infants.

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The early relationship of drug abusing mothers and their infants: An assessment at eight to twelve months of age

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Prenatal Cocaine Exposure: A Comparison of 2‐Year‐Old Children in Parental and Nonparental Care

Prenatal Cocaine Exposure: A Comparison of 2‐Year‐Old Children in Parental and Nonparental Care

Rethinking parenting interventions for drug-dependent mothers: From behavior management to fostering emotional bonds

Maternal cocaine use and mother–infant interactions: Direct and moderated associations

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