A5072193998- Child and Adolescent Psychosocial and Emotional Development
- Personality Disorders and Psychopathology
- Attachment and Relationship Dynamics
- Child and Animal Learning Development
- Child Welfare and Adoption
- Psychotherapy Techniques and Applications
- Neuroendocrine regulation and behavior
- Schizophrenia research and treatment
- Bipolar Disorder and Treatment
- Family and Disability Support Research
- Cognitive Abilities and Testing
- Marriage and Sexual Relationships
- Identity, Memory, and Therapy
- Personality Traits and Psychology
- Child Abuse and Trauma
- Memory Processes and Influences
- Creativity in Education and Neuroscience
- Maternal Mental Health During Pregnancy and Postpartum
KU Leuven
2021-2025
Impairments in mentalizing, the capacity to understand self and others terms of intentional mental states, are proposed play an important role emergence borderline personality disorder (BPD) adolescence. Although mentalizing problems adults with BPD have been amply demonstrated, research adolescence lags behind both normative development relation between different dimensions adolescent BPD. Therefore, current study investigated developmental trends sex-related differences related...
This study investigated theory of mind (ToM) development in 83 children aged 3-5 years and its associations with parental reflective functioning (PRF), using a multidimensional developmental approach. Results showed that ToM dimensions (i.e., affective, belief-desire, cognitive) gradually increased age. All PRF prementalizing modes, certainty about mental states, interest curiosity states) were associated dimensions, different being differentially related to ToM, including age-related effects.
Abstract Parental reflective functioning (PRF) plays a protective role in the development of children with histories early adversity, including adopted children. This is first study to investigate developmental trajectories PRF and children’s socio-emotional problems 4 years after international adoption ( N = 48 families, mean age (T1) 20.7 months) examine mediating parenting stress relation between child problems. Multilevel modeling indicated that at parent gender moderated Moreover,...
The capacity for reflective functioning (RF) or mentalizing of adoptive parents is hypothesized to play an important role in fostering socio-emotional development adopted children. This paper reports on the and preliminary validation Adoption Expectations Interview (AEI), a semi-structured interview assess RF prospective parents. AEI was developed based Pregnancy Interview, Parent Development Working Model Child three interviews that have been used biological parents, capture before child...