In the last decade several studies have investigated the role of parental reflective functioning
(RF), defined as the parental ability to understand his/her child's mental states, on the child's …

Emotion regulation, defined as the capacity to influence one's experience and expression of
emotion, is a complex skill now recognized to evolve throughout the lifetime. Here we …

This paper reports on three studies on the development and validation of the Parental
Reflective Functioning Questionnaire (PRFQ), a brief, multidimensional self-report measure …

Childhood is the time when we forge our first social bonds, first learn how to express and
read basic human emotions, and first make sense of the physical world. In childhood …

This paper reviews recent theoretical, empirical, and clinical work related to parental
reflective functioning (PRF) or parental mentalizing. PRF refers to the capacity of the parent …

Research consistently links adult and infant attachment styles, yet the means by which
attachment is transmitted is relatively elusive. Recently, attention has been directed to the …

Emotion regulation encapsulates the capability to successfully manage an ongoing
emotional experience, particularly in social interactions, and thus may be especially …

Parental reflective functioning, referring to the capacity of a parent to consider their child's
mental states as they relate to their behavior, may support sensitive and adaptive parenting …

Background Parental reflective functioning (PRF) refers to parents' mental capacity to
understand their own and their children's behaviors in terms of envisioned mental states. As …

This chapter provides an update of the mentalizing approach to borderline personality
disorder (BPD). We present a multilevel approach to BPD from a developmental …