Emotion expression is an important feature of healthy child development that has been
found to show gender differences. However, there has been no empirical review of the …

There is strong evidence that children of mothers with insecure attachment styles have poor
outcome trajectories. Maternal sensitivity may be the behaviour which links mother and child …

" Across diverse disciplines, the term resilience is appearing more and more often. However,
while each discipline has developed theory and models to explain the resilience of the …

Resilience is often associated with extreme trauma or overcoming extraordinary odds. This
way of thinking about resilience leaves most of the ontogenetic picture a mystery. In the …

Mental illness is highly prevalent and runs in families. Mental disorders are considered to
enhance the risk for the development of psychopathology in the offspring. This heightened …

The study evaluates a social-communication-based approach to autism intervention aimed
at improving the social interaction skills of children with autism spectrum disorder. We report …

We examined the prospective associations of objective and subjective measures of stress
during pregnancy with infant stress reactivity and regulation, an early-life predictor of …

The current study examined associations between maternal posttraumatic stress disorder
(PTSD) symptoms and infant emotional reactivity and emotion regulation during the first year …

The development of emotional regulation capacities in children at high versus low risk for
externalizing disorder was examined in a longitudinal study investigating:(a) whether …

Background: During the last decades, the research on mother-infant dyad has produced a
great amount of data, methods and theories, which largely contributed to set a revolution in …