Matrescence: lifetime impact of motherhood on cognition and the brain

ER Orchard, HJV Rutherford, AJ Holmes… - Trends in Cognitive …, 2023 - cell.com
Profound environmental, hormonal, and neurobiological changes mark the transition to
motherhood as a major biosocial life event. Despite the ubiquity of motherhood, the …

Mentalizing makes parenting work: A review about parental reflective functioning and clinical interventions to improve it

A Camoirano - Frontiers in psychology, 2017 - frontiersin.org
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 …

The parental reflective functioning questionnaire: Development and preliminary validation

P Luyten, LC Mayes, L Nijssens, P Fonagy - PloS one, 2017 - journals.plos.org
This paper reports on three studies on the development and validation of the Parental
Reflective Functioning Questionnaire (PRFQ), a brief, multidimensional self-report measure …

Development and validation of a self-report measure of mentalizing: The reflective functioning questionnaire

P Fonagy, P Luyten, A Moulton-Perkins, YW Lee… - PloS one, 2016 - journals.plos.org
Reflective functioning or mentalizing is the capacity to interpret both the self and others in
terms of internal mental states such as feelings, wishes, goals, desires, and attitudes. This …

Parental reflective functioning: Theory, research, and clinical applications

P Luyten, L Nijssens, P Fonagy… - The Psychoanalytic Study …, 2017 - Taylor & Francis
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 …

Convergent validity of three measures of reflective function: Parent development interview, parental reflective function questionnaire, and reflective function …

L Anis, G Perez, KM Benzies, C Ewashen… - Frontiers in …, 2020 - frontiersin.org
Reflective function (RF) is defined as an individual's ability to understand human behavior in
terms of underlying mental states including thoughts, feelings, desires, beliefs, and …

The association between reflective functioning and parent–child relationship quality

WL Rostad, DJ Whitaker - Journal of child and family studies, 2016 - Springer
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 …

Less can be more: fine tuning the maternal brain

JL Pawluski, E Hoekzema, B Leuner… - … & Biobehavioral Reviews, 2022 - Elsevier
Abstract PAWLUSKI, JL, Hoekzema, E., Leuner, B., and Lonstein, JS Less can be more: Fine
tuning the maternal brain. NEUROSCI BIOBEHAV REV (129) XXX-XXX, 2022. Plasticity in …

Associations between emotion regulation and parental reflective functioning

AM Schultheis, LC Mayes, HJV Rutherford - Journal of child and family …, 2019 - Springer
Emotion regulation encapsulates the capability to successfully manage an ongoing
emotional experience, particularly in social interactions, and thus may be especially …

Parental reflective functioning and its association with parenting behaviors in infancy and early childhood: A systematic review

LY Stuhrmann, A Göbel, C Bindt, S Mudra - Frontiers in psychology, 2022 - frontiersin.org
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 …