Sentences with phrase «psychological health of the mothers»

Week 15 — An overview of the significance of the mother / infant bond and the impact on the parent / child relationship and the psychological health of mother and child if this bond is interfered with.

Interventions are known to increase the chances of harm to the physical and psychological health of mothers and babies.

These practices are important, in their own right, for the physical and psychological health of the mothers themselves.

Thus, the results of this study might be biased due to the underrepresented characteristics of the sample (e.g., the severity of previous IPV and the psychological health of the mothers and children).

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The nutritional, immunological, emotional and psychological benefits of breastfeeding should be enough to encourage mothers to want to breastfeed their newborn and for all health care providers to strongly encourage breastfeeding.

Breastfeeding should be continued for at least the first year of life and beyond for as long as mutually desired by mother and child... Increased duration of breastfeeding confers significant health and developmental benefits for the child and the mother... There is no upper limit to the duration of breastfeeding and no evidence of psychological or developmental harm from breastfeeding into the third year of life or longer.»

In a thought provoking chapter of a new book, Parenthood and Mental Health: A Bridge between Infant and Adult Psychiatry, (Tyano et al., 2010 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd), Joan Raphael - Leff, of the Faculty for Psychoanalytic Research, UCL / Anna Freud Centre in London, proposes that women approach mothering with specific psychological orientations.

In the third trial of the nurse home visitor program, nurse - visited, 6 - month - old infants born to mothers with low psychological resources (i.e., maternal IQ, mental health, and sense of efficacy) displayed fewer aberrant emotional expressions (e.g., low levels of affect and lack of social referencing of mother) associated with child maltreatment.18

Dr. Kendall - Tackett is author of more than 310 journal articles, book chapters and other publications, and author or editor of 22 books in the fields of trauma, women's health, depression, and breastfeeding, including Treating the Lifetime Health Effects of Childhood Victimization, 2nd Edition (in press, Civic Research Institute), Depression in New Mothers, 2nd Edition (2010, Routledge), The Psychoneuroimmunology of Chronic Disease (2010, American Psychological Association), and Breastfeeding Made Simple, 2nd Edition (co-authored with Nancy Mohrbacher, health, depression, and breastfeeding, including Treating the Lifetime Health Effects of Childhood Victimization, 2nd Edition (in press, Civic Research Institute), Depression in New Mothers, 2nd Edition (2010, Routledge), The Psychoneuroimmunology of Chronic Disease (2010, American Psychological Association), and Breastfeeding Made Simple, 2nd Edition (co-authored with Nancy Mohrbacher, Health Effects of Childhood Victimization, 2nd Edition (in press, Civic Research Institute), Depression in New Mothers, 2nd Edition (2010, Routledge), The Psychoneuroimmunology of Chronic Disease (2010, American Psychological Association), and Breastfeeding Made Simple, 2nd Edition (co-authored with Nancy Mohrbacher, 2010).

These are standard requests for intended parents to make of their surrogate mother, who must initially pass health screenings and often psychological evaluations even before being considered.

In fact, in a 2001 review of the father's love, researchers Rohner and Veneziano concluded, «Overall, father love appears to be as heavily implicated as mother love in offsprings» psychological wellbeing and health, as well as in an array of psychological and behavioral problems.»

Mental health doesn't sound that important, compared with the physical safety of mother and child, but when you consider the affects of post natal depression, psychosis and PTSD, as well as bonding issues, you start to see that the effects of poor psychological / mental health support in traditional maternal hospitals is a major factor pushing women towards less safe birthing options.

A research geek, I stay up - to - date with current findings relevant to pre and postnatal women's issues, support for the birthing mother, birth trauma, and anything else pertaining to the psychological and emotional health of women during this hugely transitional time.

«Even a simple assessment of the quality of the mother - infant interaction at such an early age captures something very important in terms of the future psychological health of that infant,» says Joanna Maselko, PhD, the lead author of the study and an assistant professor of psychiatry and behavioral sciences at Duke University Medical School, in Durham, N.C.

[3] The authorizing legislation for the property tax includes the following uses [RSMo 210.861.4]: (1) Up to thirty days of temporary shelter for abused, neglected, runaway, homeless or emotionally disturbed youth; respite care services; and services to unwed mothers; (2) Outpatient chemical dependency and psychiatric treatment programs; counseling and related services as a part of transitional living programs; home - based and community - based family intervention programs; unmarried parent services; crisis intervention services, inclusive of telephone hotlines; and prevention programs which promote healthy lifestyles among children and youth and strengthen families; (3) Individual, group, or family professional counseling and therapy services; psychological evaluations; and mental health screenings.

Mothers were eligible to participate if they did not require the use of an interpreter, and reported one or more of the following risk factors for poor maternal or child outcomes in their responses to routine standardised psychosocial and domestic violence screening conducted by midwives for every mother booking in to the local hospital for confinement: maternal age under 19 years; current probable distress (assessed as an Edinburgh Depression Scale (EDS) 17 score of 10 or more)(as a lower cut - off score was used than the antenatal validated cut - off score for depression, the term «distress» is used rather than «depression»; use of this cut - off to indicate those distressed approximated the subgroups labelled in other trials as «psychologically vulnerable» or as having «low psychological resources» 14); lack of emotional and practical support; late antenatal care (after 20 weeks gestation); major stressors in the past 12 months; current substance misuse; current or history of mental health problem or disorder; history of abuse in mother's own childhood; and history of domestic violence.

Mothers most commonly reported that their children were in the care of relatives (65 %) with 11 % reporting that their child was in the child protection system.15 Disruption to a child's living arrangements, including separation from parents and siblings, can result in psychological and emotional distress.16 17 A recent systematic review and meta - analysis of 40 studies that investigated child outcomes when either parent was incarcerated found a significant association with antisocial behaviour (pooled OR = 1.6, 95 % CI 1.4 to 1.9) and poor educational performance (pooled OR = 1.4, 95 % CI 1.1 to 1.8).18 Other research indicates that children of incarcerated mothers are at risk of increased criminal involvement, mental health issues, physical health problems, behavioural problems, 19 child protection contact20 and poorer educational outcMothers most commonly reported that their children were in the care of relatives (65 %) with 11 % reporting that their child was in the child protection system.15 Disruption to a child's living arrangements, including separation from parents and siblings, can result in psychological and emotional distress.16 17 A recent systematic review and meta - analysis of 40 studies that investigated child outcomes when either parent was incarcerated found a significant association with antisocial behaviour (pooled OR = 1.6, 95 % CI 1.4 to 1.9) and poor educational performance (pooled OR = 1.4, 95 % CI 1.1 to 1.8).18 Other research indicates that children of incarcerated mothers are at risk of increased criminal involvement, mental health issues, physical health problems, behavioural problems, 19 child protection contact20 and poorer educational outcmothers are at risk of increased criminal involvement, mental health issues, physical health problems, behavioural problems, 19 child protection contact20 and poorer educational outcomes.21

Felitti and colleagues1 first described ACEs and defined it as exposure to psychological, physical or sexual abuse, and household dysfunction including substance abuse (problem drinking / alcoholic and / or street drugs), mental illness, a mother treated violently and criminal behaviour in the household.1 Along with the initial ACE study, other studies have characterised ACEs as neglect, parental separation, loss of family members or friends, long - term financial adversity and witness to violence.2 3 From the original cohort of 9508 American adults, more than half of respondents (52 %) experienced at least one adverse childhood event.1 Since the original cohort, ACE exposures have been investigated globally revealing comparable prevalence to the original cohort.4 5 More recently in 2014, a survey of 4000 American children found that 60.8 % of children had at least one form of direct experience of violence, crime or abuse.6 The ACE study precipitated interest in the health conditions of adults maltreated as children as it revealed links to chronic diseases such as obesity, autoimmune diseases, heart, lung and liver diseases, and cancer in adulthood.1 Since then, further evidence has revealed relationships between ACEs and physical and mental health outcomes, such as increased risk of substance abuse, suicide and premature mortality.4 7

Main outcome measures: Mother — child interaction, maternal psychological health attitudes and behaviour, infant functioning and development, and risk of neglect or abuse.

In the third trial of the nurse home visitor program, nurse - visited, 6 - month - old infants born to mothers with low psychological resources (i.e., maternal IQ, mental health, and sense of efficacy) displayed fewer aberrant emotional expressions (e.g., low levels of affect and lack of social referencing of mother) associated with child maltreatment.18

Ajdukovic and Ajdukovic's (1993) study of the influence of maternal mental health on children's stress reactions and stress indexes emphasised the emotional and behavioural state of mothers as major mediators between children's traumatic experience and psychological functioning.

This recent trend makes it necessary to take a better look at how each type of living situation affects the psychological well - being of an expectant mother, as maternal mental health has one of the biggest impacts on the well - being of the child.

The objectives of this study were to (1) describe the psychological functioning, physical and mental health, family communication, and parenting support of mothers of a child with autism compared with other mothers on a population basis and (2) assess the independent relationship between having a child with autism and these outcomes, controlling for the child's social skills and demographic background.

In fact, in a 2001 review of the father's love, researchers Rohner and Veneziano concluded, «Overall, father love appears to be as heavily implicated as mother love in offsprings» psychological wellbeing and health, as well as in an array of psychological and behavioral problems.»

Our findings support a family systems risk model14 that explains children's cognitive, social and emotional development using information about five kinds of family risk or protective factors: (1) Each family member's level of adaptation, self - perceptions, mental health and psychological distress; (2) The quality of both mother - child and father - child relationships; (3) The quality of the relationship between the parents, including communication styles, conflict resolution, problem - solving styles and emotion regulation; (4) Patterns of both couple and parent - child relationships transmitted across the generations; and (5) The balance between life stressors and social supports outside the immediate family.

Decades of research indicates that a mother's mental health has a significant impact on her pregnancy outcomes, the developing fetus, emotional attachment to her child and her child's development, psychological health, and academic success.

The relationship between mother and child is sometimes seen as of central importance in laying the foundations for the psychological development of the child and as having important implications for the identity and mental health of the woman.

Fact: Breastfeeding directly from the breast offers significant benefits over bottlefeeding expressed breastmilk for both mother and infant, including, among others: infant jaw development, infant control of milk flow, psychological attachment of infant to mother, health benefits for mother that pumping the breast does not achieve, infant's ability to feed on demand, the stimulation and maintenance of mother» smilk supply that pumping alone can not achieve (and some women can not successfully pump), avoidance of problems such as that some babies will not move back and forth easily between bottle and breast, nutritional variation of milk during the breastfeeding, that it's cheaper and avoids the need for a variety of feeding equipment, and that breastmilk from the breast is always fresh and free of contaminents.

Extensive data were collected on mothers» demographic characteristics, health history, including maternal history of asthma, prenatal and postnatal maternal psychological distress (anxiety, depression or stress), maternal social support (specifically the extent of partner / spouse support) and children's birth and health outcomes including breastfeeding status (at 3 months) from the APrON surveys completed at prenatal or postnatal clinic visits or sent in by mail.

General indices regarding mental health of mothers have been associated with their children's sleep, and less well - organized sleep patterns have been noted in children from poorly functioning families.113) Mothers of children with sleep disturbances exhibited much higher psychological stress than did controls, obtaining increased scores on all factors of the General Health Questionnaire (GHQ).114) Children's sleep quality significantly predicted that of their mothers, with maternal sleep quality associated with stress and fatigue.115) Moreover, infants of mothers with low levels of depression and anxiety were more likely to recover from sleep problems than those with high levels of depression and anxiety after controlling for the influence of attachment patterns.116) Sleep disturbances in early childhood were positively related to negative maternal perceptions of their child, 117) potentially interfering with the development of beneficial parent - child interachealth of mothers have been associated with their children's sleep, and less well - organized sleep patterns have been noted in children from poorly functioning families.113) Mothers of children with sleep disturbances exhibited much higher psychological stress than did controls, obtaining increased scores on all factors of the General Health Questionnaire (GHQ).114) Children's sleep quality significantly predicted that of their mothers, with maternal sleep quality associated with stress and fatigue.115) Moreover, infants of mothers with low levels of depression and anxiety were more likely to recover from sleep problems than those with high levels of depression and anxiety after controlling for the influence of attachment patterns.116) Sleep disturbances in early childhood were positively related to negative maternal perceptions of their child, 117) potentially interfering with the development of beneficial parent - child interamothers have been associated with their children's sleep, and less well - organized sleep patterns have been noted in children from poorly functioning families.113) Mothers of children with sleep disturbances exhibited much higher psychological stress than did controls, obtaining increased scores on all factors of the General Health Questionnaire (GHQ).114) Children's sleep quality significantly predicted that of their mothers, with maternal sleep quality associated with stress and fatigue.115) Moreover, infants of mothers with low levels of depression and anxiety were more likely to recover from sleep problems than those with high levels of depression and anxiety after controlling for the influence of attachment patterns.116) Sleep disturbances in early childhood were positively related to negative maternal perceptions of their child, 117) potentially interfering with the development of beneficial parent - child interaMothers of children with sleep disturbances exhibited much higher psychological stress than did controls, obtaining increased scores on all factors of the General Health Questionnaire (GHQ).114) Children's sleep quality significantly predicted that of their mothers, with maternal sleep quality associated with stress and fatigue.115) Moreover, infants of mothers with low levels of depression and anxiety were more likely to recover from sleep problems than those with high levels of depression and anxiety after controlling for the influence of attachment patterns.116) Sleep disturbances in early childhood were positively related to negative maternal perceptions of their child, 117) potentially interfering with the development of beneficial parent - child interacHealth Questionnaire (GHQ).114) Children's sleep quality significantly predicted that of their mothers, with maternal sleep quality associated with stress and fatigue.115) Moreover, infants of mothers with low levels of depression and anxiety were more likely to recover from sleep problems than those with high levels of depression and anxiety after controlling for the influence of attachment patterns.116) Sleep disturbances in early childhood were positively related to negative maternal perceptions of their child, 117) potentially interfering with the development of beneficial parent - child interamothers, with maternal sleep quality associated with stress and fatigue.115) Moreover, infants of mothers with low levels of depression and anxiety were more likely to recover from sleep problems than those with high levels of depression and anxiety after controlling for the influence of attachment patterns.116) Sleep disturbances in early childhood were positively related to negative maternal perceptions of their child, 117) potentially interfering with the development of beneficial parent - child interamothers with low levels of depression and anxiety were more likely to recover from sleep problems than those with high levels of depression and anxiety after controlling for the influence of attachment patterns.116) Sleep disturbances in early childhood were positively related to negative maternal perceptions of their child, 117) potentially interfering with the development of beneficial parent - child interactions.

Maternal depressive symptoms were associated with high maternal warmth, and high psychological control was associated with high levels of mother - reported externalizing mental health problems in children.

Second, to extend past observational research that focused on broad, global categories of positive and negative interaction patterns as a mediator, we focused on maternal warmth and maternal psychological control, two more specific mother — child interactions that are known to be related to both maternal depression as well as child mental health.

The main objective of the present study was to examine observed maternal warmth and maternal psychological control as mediators in the relationship between maternal depressive symptoms and children's mental health problems, as reported by both mothers and children themselves.