Emotional Availability: Theory, Research, and Intervention [PDF]
Frontiers in Psychology, 2015 Attachment Theory (Bowlby, 1969) and its limitations are first described. Next, emotional availability (EA; Biringen, Robinson, & Emde, 1998; Biringen, 2008) is introduced as an expansion upon the original conceptualization of the parent-child attachment
Hannah eSaunders +3 more
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Neurobiological Implications of Parent–Child Emotional Availability: A Review [PDF]
Brain Sciences, 2021 Parental influences are important for a child’s behavior, overall adjustment, as well as cognitive/language development. New research is exploring how relationships with parents can influence a child’s neurobiological functioning and development. In this
Emma L. M. Clark +3 more
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Parenting skills and emotional availability: An RCT [PDF]
Pediatrics, 2015 Objective: To investigate whether a responsive stimulation intervention delivered to caregivers of young children either alone or integrated with nutrition interventions would benefit parenting skills and emotional availability to promote children’s ...
Armstrong, Robert +4 more
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Mother–Child and Father–Child Emotional Availability during the COVID-19 Pandemic [PDF]
Children, 2023 While the body of literature on COVID-19’s impacts on family life is rapidly expanding, most studies are based entirely on self-report data, leaving a critical gap in observational studies of parent–child interactions.
Maggie Dungan +9 more
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Maternal Executive Functioning, Emotional Availability and Psychological Distress During Toddlerhood: A FinnBrain Birth Cohort Study [PDF]
Frontiers in Psychology, 2021 Executive functioning (EF) is one of the building blocks in parental caregiving behavior, and contextual variables have been reported to moderate the link between EF and caregiving behavior.
Elisabeth Nordenswan +16 more
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Emotional Availability in Autism Intervention: A Mother–Father Comparative Analysis [PDF]
Brain SciencesBackground/Objectives: The literature highlights the importance of parental involvement in autism treatment. However, much research has predominantly focused on child outcomes and cognitive dimensions. This study explores the impact of an early intensive
Silvia Perzolli +3 more
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Effect of Tactile Imitation Guidance on Imitation and Emotional Availability. A Case Report of a Mother and Her Child With Congenital Deafblindness [PDF]
Frontiers in Psychology, 2020 Interaction between parents and children with congenital deafblindness (CDB) is easily hampered due to dual sensory loss. This case report examines imitation and emotional availability in interaction between a mother and her 3-year-old child with CDB ...
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Testing an Attachment-Based Parenting Intervention-VIPP-FC/A in Adoptive Families with Post-institutionalized Children: Do Maternal Sensitivity and Genetic Markers Count? [PDF]
Frontiers in Psychology, 2018 This study investigated the effectiveness of a newly integrated version of an intervention targeting adoptive mothers’ positive parenting for promoting children’s emotional availability, by testing the moderating role of both two maternal genetic ...
Lavinia Barone +3 more
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Complex interplay of emotional availability with migration-related and sociodemographic factors: an exploratory study of mothers and their infants with a history of migration and exile in Germany [PDF]
Frontiers in PsychologyBackgroundChildren born in Germany, who have a so-called migration background face great challenges. This is not due to their parents' history of migration itself, but rather due to the complex interplay of trauma, sociodemographic factors and numerous ...
Lena Schestag +9 more
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ADHD Symptoms in Middle Childhood: The Role of Child Attachment and Maternal Emotional Availability in an Inpatient Clinical Sample [PDF]
European Journal of Investigation in Health, Psychology and EducationBackground: Child ADHD symptoms are highly prevalent in middle childhood, alongside impairment in social functioning. The parent–child relationship has been shown to play an important role; however, studies investigating specific facets of the parent ...
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