Why do fathers matter? Recent conceptual and theoretical advances regarding father–child
relationships have demonstrated that fathers affect children's outcomes both directly and …

Postpartum depression (PPD) is a common and debilitating mental health condition affecting
many mothers worldwide. This review article aims to explore the complex effects of PPD on …

This article synthesizes knowledge on the role of relationships and key macro and micro-
contexts—poverty, racism, families, communities, schools, and peers—in supporting and/or …

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 COVID-19 pandemic has raised huge concerns for the mental health of an entire
generation of children. But the pandemic may represent only the tip of a mental health …

A family environment, characterized by low expressiveness, low cohesion and intense
conflicts is usually associated with problematic internet use (PIU) among adolescents …

It remains unclear whether children and adolescents in the child welfare system (CWS)
exhibit a higher prevalence of mental disorders compared with the general population. The …

Our experience of the body is not direct; rather, it is mediated by perceptual information,
influenced by internal information, and recalibrated through stored implicit and explicit body …

A child's development is embedded within a complex system of relationships. Among the
many relationships that influence children's growth and development, perhaps the most …

Piaget's cognitive-stage theory and the neo-piagetians-Freud's and erikson's psychoanalytic
theories-Social learning theory-Information-processing theory-Ethology and other …