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  1. Pre-natal Attachment and Parent-To-Infant Attachment: A Systematic Review

    In line with the definition of parent-to-infant attachment (Condon and Corkindale, 1998), ... Lastly, we did not consider other factors such as parental mentalization and parental representations which could provide a deeper understanding of the variables that influence relationship quality during the post-partum period.

  2. Mothers' and fathers' attachment styles and power-assertive control

    Research on adults' self-reported attachment styles, investigated mostly in social and personality psychology, has rarely been bridged with research on parenting, studied mostly in developmental psychology. We proposed that parents' attachment insecurity (avoidance and anxiety) has an indirect association with their power-assertive control, mediated through their negative representations ...

  3. PDF Impact of Parental Representations and Related Parenting Behavior on

    Parental representations tend to be formed in the prenatal period and affect the child- parent relationship in the long term. Therefore, in the clinical environment, it is important to define parents' representations to increase ... Related to this purpose, this review includes the definition and categories of parental representa tions, the ...

  4. Frontiers

    Applying the RFS to measures that were specifically designed to investigate the parental mental representations of the child was considered particularly noteworthy in that it allows researchers and clinicians to assess mentalization in the specific context of the parent-child relationship which, in addition, is an ongoing relationship, in ...

  5. Attachment styles and parental representations.

    Relationships between attachment styles and the content and structure of mental representations of parents were investigated. Undergraduates completed 3- and 4-category measures of attachment style and wrote descriptions of their parents. Securely attached participants' parental representations were characterized by differentiation, elaboration, benevolence, and nonpunitiveness.

  6. Prenatal parental representations: Influences on perceived romantic

    Objective. The present work aimed to evaluate the differences between fathers' and mothers' prenatal parental representations, the differences between pre- and postnatal perceptions of couple adjustment, and whether the quality of prenatal parental representations is associated with the perception of couple adjustment and with the perception of infant temperament at 3 months.

  7. Representations in middle childhood: A dialogical perspective

    After the basic investigation of continuities and changes of parental representations during the preschool and school years, I present studies that focus on similarities and differences between representations of mother and father. ... K. N. Levy, & C. E. Schaffer (Eds.), Relatedness, Self-Definition and Mental Representation (pp. 43-57 ...

  8. Parental reflective functioning: Analysis and promotion of the concept

    Elements of Definition. ... 2005) and assesses three principle areas of interest: the mother's developing representations of her baby, her parental representations, and her state of mind. The PI is a semi-structured clinical interview with 22 questions. Interviews are transcribed verbatim and scored for parental RF by trained coders.

  9. PDF Commission on Parental Legal Representation

    legal needs of their parents ." To that end, Judge DiFiore gave the Commission on Parental Le-gal Representation the mission of examining the current state of parental representation and developing a plan "to ensure the future delivery of quality, cost-effective parental representa-tion" across the State .9

  10. Paternal representations and contemporary parenthood themes through a

    Parental representations have been assessed mainly using interviews, for example, the Parent Developmental Interview (PDI: Aber, Slade, Berger, ... Another possible explanation for the fathers creating metaphoric representations is related to the definition of metaphor. Through metaphor, meaning is transferred among ostensibly unrelated ...

  11. Representing Parents in Child Welfare Cases--Inside the Book with

    VS: Ten years from now I hope states will have recognized that parent representation is an essential part of the child welfare system and will start making or will have made the financial investments that need to be made to ensure that every parent who goes through the system has effective parent advocacy. I hope that this book plays a role in ...

  12. Parental representations: A systematic review of the Working Model of

    This review provides an overview of results that have been obtained in studies using the Working Model of the Child Interview (WMCI). The WMCI is a structured interview that assesses parents' internal working models of the relationship with their young children. From the current infant mental health perspective, evaluating the quality of parents' representations about the infant-parent ...

  13. Mental Representations in Personality Development, Psychopathology, and

    Concepts of mental representation are applied to the study of psychopathology, personality assessment, interpersonal relationships or attachment styles, and therapeutic progress in the long-term, inpatient treatment of seriously disturbed adolescents and young adults.

  14. Cultural Identity and Internationally Adopted Children ...

    Exploring parental representations of the adopted child enables professionals involved in adoption to provide better support to these families and to do preventive work at the level of family interactions. Citation: Harf A, Skandrani S, Sibeoni J, Pontvert C, Revah-Levy A, Moro MR (2015) Cultural Identity and Internationally Adopted Children ...

  15. Parent Representation Standards

    Parent Representation Standards. Standards for Parental Representation in State Intervention Matters were approved by the ILS Board on November 6, 2015, with an effective date of December 1, 2015. The workgroup drafting standards and best practices for attorneys representing parents in child welfare proceedings, convened by Angela Olivia Burton ...

  16. Maternal perceptions of 'parental determinism', media representations

    First, 'parental determinism', coined by Frank Furedi, is the concept that children's outcomes are largely shaped by parenting practices, which ultimately shape society (Lee, 2014a). ... Scoping reviews of the literature found studies showing media representations of parental determinism, and that endorsement of 'intensive mothering ...

  17. Parental representations and psychopathology: A critical review of the

    during the past 50 years, there has been a tremendous amount of empirical research examining the influence of the parent-child relationship on risk for psychopathology in children, adolescents, and adults / review research that examines the parental representations-psychopathology relationship in order to determine whether dysfunctional parental representations are in fact associated with ...

  18. Adult attachment representations, parental responsiveness, and infant

    About a decade ago, the Adult Attachment Interview (AAI; C. George, N. Kaplan, & M. Main, 1985) was developed to explore parents' mental representations of attachment as manifested in language during discourse of childhood experiences. The AAI was intended to predict the quality of the infant-pa …

  19. Parental portrayals in the media

    Parental portrayals in the media. The portrayal of parents in media sometimes depicts gender stereotypes in society, often highlighting the "traditional nuclear family" as opposed to nonconventional configurations. [1] Social Scientists have found that home, family, and romance are three of the most important components of the way characters ...

  20. Federal Register :: Foster Care Legal Representation

    The NPRM proposed that providing independent legal representation to a child who is a candidate for or in title IV-E foster care, their parent(s), and their relative caregiver(s), to prepare for and participate in civil legal proceedings is an allowable administrative cost when necessary to carry out the requirements in the agency's title IV-E ...

  21. ATX TV Festival 2024: Schedule, Lineup, Panels and Programming

    The 2024 edition is taking place May 30-June 2 in Austin. By Kimberly Nordyke Managing Editor, Digital ATX TV Festival has added panels on Apple TV+'s The Big Cigar, the impact of the WGA and ...