This study examined the associations among mothers' insightfulness into their infants' internal experience, sensitivity to signals, and security of attachment mothers. The 129 mothers 12-month-old infants was assessed by showing 3 videotaped segments observations themselves interviewing them regarding own thoughts feelings. Interviews were classified 1 insightful noninsightful categories. Mothers' during play sessions at home laboratory, infant-mother with Strange Situation. Mothers as...

This study examines the decisions of middle-class U.S. and Highland Mayan parents regarding sleeping arrangements during their child's first 2 years explanations for differing practices. All 14 children slept in mothers' beds into toddlerhood. None 18 infants bed with mothers on a regular basis as newborns, although 15 near until age 3 to 6 months, when most were moved separate room. The explained practices terms value closeness infants; independence infants. families, but not used bedtime...

1. Early Narratives: A Window to the Child's Inner World 2. Making Meaning From Emotional Experience in Narratives 3. The MacArthur Story Stem Battery: Development, Administration, Reliability, Validity and Reflections about 4. Narrative Coding System: One Approach Highlighting Affective Battery 5. Emotion System (NEC) 6. Structure of 5-Year-Old Children's Play within Methodology 7. Temperament Guilt Representations 8. Resolution MSSB Relations with Child Behaviour Problems Parental...

Abstract This article introduces a new method to assess mothers' insightfulness regarding their children's inner world. Maternal involves the capacity see things from child's point of view, and is based on insight into motives, complex view child, openness information about child. Insightfulness seen as underlying positive parenting providing context for secure child–parent attachment. In assessment mothers video segments interactions with children are subsequently interviewed own thoughts...

We investigated associations between children's representations of mothers in their play narrative and measures mothers' socioemotional adaptation, explored the development these ages 4 5 years. Fifty-one children were interviewed using MacArthur Story-Stem Battery to obtain mothers. Positive, Negative, Disciplinary representation composites generated. Children who had more Positive fewer Negative behavior problems reported less psychological distress. In addition, 5-year-olds than did...

The associations were studied between early mother-child co-construction of a separation-reunion narrative and children's concurrent later (a) emotion narratives (b) behavior problems. Fifty-one children their mothers observed during task when the age 4 1/2. At ages 1/2 5 1/2, elicited using MacArthur Story-Stem Battery (MSSB), completed Child Behavior Checklist. Results showed that who more emotionally coherent co-constructions had MSSB coherent, prosocial themes, fewer aggressive themes at...

John Bowlby was a thorough and imaginative scholar. He also farsighted in his plans for attachment theory. In evolutionary controlsystems theories, he saw useful alternatives to psychoanalytic motivation models conceptual foundations that had passed the test of time could only grow stronger with succeeding generations. Moreover, perceived how emerging field cognitive psychology play major role efforts demystify insights about adjustment. Most important current directions theory, Craik's...

In the current study (a) maternal insightfulness into experience of child and (b) resolution with respect to child’s diagnosis their associations children’s security attachment were examined in a sample 45 preschoolers (mean age = 49 months) autism spectrum disorders (ASD). It was hypothesized that mothers who insightful resolved would be more likely have securely attached children than neither nor resolved. The findings supported this hypothesis. implications for context ASD are discussed.

It was examined whether secure infant–mother attachment contributes to emotionally congruent and organized mother–child dialogues about emotions in later years. The of 99 children assessed using the Strange Situation at age 1 year their emotion with mothers were ages 4.5 7.5 Dialogues past emotional events separation a child from parents, classified into an matched group or 3 non‐emotionally groups. Security infancy associated 4.5; there moderate stability between years; infant predicted...

This study examined the hypothesis that maternal sensitivity mediates association between Insightfulness/Resolution and child attachment in a sample of preschool age boys with Autism Spectrum Disorders. used Insightfulness Assessment to assess insightfulness Reaction Diagnosis Interview mothers' resolution. Maternal was assessed from mother–child play observations, security children's using Strange Situation Procedure. The results supported mediation model, their implications for research,...

This study examined the links between mothers’ empathic understanding of their preschoolers’ internal experience and early infant-mother attachment. The 118 mothers 4.5-year-olds was assessed by showing them three videotaped segments observations children themselves interviewing regarding children’s own thoughts feelings. Interviews were rated then classi” ed into one nonempathic categories, misperceptions coded as well. Infant-mother attachment classifications obtained using Strange...

Part I: Clinical Use of Attachment Research Assessments. Zeanah, Constructing a Relationship Formulation for Mother and Child: Application the Working Model Child Interview. Koren-Karie, Oppenheim, Goldsmith, Keeping Inner World in Mind: Using Insightfulness Assessment with Mothers Therapeutic Preschool. Steele, Hodges, Kaniuk, D'Agostino, Blom, Hillman, Henderson, Intervening Maltreated Children Their Adoptive Families: Identifying Attachment-facilitative Behavior. Dozier, Grasso, Lindhiem,...

In the current study we examined links between maternal sensitivity and children’s secure attachment in a sample of 45 preschool‐age boys with Autism Spectrum Disorders (ASD). We hypothesized that mothers securely attached children would be more sensitive to their than insecurely children. Children’s was assessed using Ainsworth’s Strange Situation Procedure (SSP; Ainsworth, Blehar, Waters, & Wall, 1978). Mothers’ responsiveness were Emotional Availability Scales (Biringen, Robinson,...

Observations of parent–child play with toys are often used to assess interactions between parents and non-autistic as well autistic children, but some research indicates that without may elicit more positive than toys. The first goal the study was examine whether this is true in case preschoolers by comparing their versus second compare mother– father–child interactions. Seventy-eight preschooler boys were observed interacting counterbalanced or toys, coded using Emotional Availability...

Abstract Mothers' insightfulness, which involves understanding the motives underlying child's behavior in a complete, open, and accepting way, was examined both at beginning end of therapeutic preschool program for preschoolers using Insightfulness Assessment (Oppenheim & Koren‐Karie, 2002). The goal study to examine links between improvement mothers' insightfulness reduction children's problems. Thirty‐two children referred range behavioral emotional problems their mothers participated...

The study examined how mothers who were sexually abused as children guide conversations about emotional events with their children. We hypothesized that compared to less resolved regarding traumatic past, those more would better such conversations. dialogues of 33 and assessed using the Autobiographical Emotional Events Dialogue procedure (AEED; Koren-Karie, Oppenheim, Haimovich, & Etzion-Carasso, 2000) which yields three composite scores: Mothers' Sensitive Guidance, Child Cooperation...

AbstractIn her description of sensitive mothers, Ainsworth described not only maternal behaviors but also the internal processes underlying such behavior, including capacity to "see things from child's point view". assessed this extensive observations mothers interacting with their infants, records mothers' talk babies, and brief interviews about babies. Attachment researchers following focused primarily on however, behavior were mostly inferred behavior. The Insightfulness Assessment (IA),...