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Mothers' insightfulness regarding their children's internal worlds: The capacity underlying secure child–mother relationships
David Oppenheim,Nina Koren-Karie +1 more
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In the assessment of insightfulness mothers view video segments of their interactions with their children and are subsequently interviewed regarding their children's and their own thoughts and feelings during the segments This article describes how the maternal interviews are coded and provides vignettes of both insightful and noninsightful mothers as discussed by the authors.Abstract:
This article introduces a new method to assess mothers' insightfulness regarding their children's inner world Maternal insightfulness involves the capacity to see things from the child's point of view, and is based on insight into the child's motives, a complex view of the child, and openness to new information about the child Insightfulness is seen as the capacity underlying positive parenting and providing the context for secure child–parent attachment In the assessment of insightfulness mothers view video segments of their interactions with their children and are subsequently interviewed regarding their children's and their own thoughts and feelings during the segments This article describes how the maternal interviews are coded and provides vignettes of both insightful and noninsightful mothers Empirical findings supporting the validity of the insightfulness assessment are reviewed, and the implications for children's development are discussed ©2002 Michigan Association for Infant Mental Healthread more
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Constructing an understanding of mind : the development of children's social understanding within social interaction
TL;DR: Evidence suggesting that children's understanding of mind develops gradually in the context of social interaction is reviewed, and a theory of development is needed that accords a fundamental role to social interaction, yet does not assume that children simply adopt socially available knowledge but rather that children construct an understanding ofMind within social interaction.
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Attachment and the processing of social information across the life span: theory and evidence.
Matthew J. Dykas,Jude Cassidy +1 more
TL;DR: An integrative life-span-encompassing theoretical model is presented to explain the patterns of results that have emerged from studies that illustrate patterns of attachment-related information processing from childhood to adulthood.
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The parent-infant dyad and the construction of the subjective self
TL;DR: It is argued that a number of possible mechanisms, including complementary activation of attachment and mentalisation, the disruptive effect of maltreatment on parent-child communication, the biobehavioural overlap of cues for learning and cues for attachment, may have a role in ensuring that the quality of relationship with the caregiver influences the development of the child's experience of thoughts and feelings.
The caregiving system: A behavioral systems approach to parenting.
Carol George,Judith Solomon +1 more
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The Development of the Person: Social Understanding, Relationships, Conscience, Self
TL;DR: The development of social understanding, relationships, self, and conscience constitute the most important ways that early developing individuality intersects with the social world as mentioned in this paper, and these topics have also received the most concerted research attention by students of early development.
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Patterns of Attachment: A Psychological Study of the Strange Situation
TL;DR: In this article, the effects of repetition of the "strange situation" on infants' behavior at home and in the classroom were discussed, as well as the relationship between infants' behaviour in the situation and their mothers' behaviour at home.
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Learning from Experience
TL;DR: In this article, Bion deals with emotional experiences that are directly related both to theories of knowledge and clinical psycho-analysis, and that in the most practical manner.'- Wilfred R. Bion, from the Introduction
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Ghosts in the Nursery: A Psychoanalytic Approach to the Problems of Impaired Infant-Mother Relationships
TL;DR: In every nursery there are ghosts as mentioned in this paper, the visitors from the unremembered past of the parents, the uninvited guests at the christening, who are banished from the nursery and return to their subterranean dwelling place.
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Mothers' Representations of Their Infants Assessed Prenatally: Stability and Association with Infants' Attachment Classifications
TL;DR: The stability and predictive validity of classifications of mothers' representations of their infants as determined by the Working Model of the Child Interview (WMCI) were examined and problems with the skewed distribution of the sample, the low concordance between pregnancy and 11 months for one of the three classifications, and future directions for research are discussed.