Intervening After Trauma: Child–Parent Psychotherapy Treatment Is Associated With Lower Pediatric Epigenetic Age Acceleration

Psychological Science, Journal Year: 2024, Volume and Issue: 35(9), P. 1062 - 1073

Published: Aug. 14, 2024

Early-life adversity increases the risk of health problems. Interventions supporting protective and responsive caregiving offer a promising approach to attenuating adversity-induced changes in stress-sensitive biomarkers. This study tested whether participation an evidence-based dyadic psychosocial intervention, child-parent psychotherapy (CPP), was related lower epigenetic age acceleration, trauma-sensitive biomarker accelerated biological aging that is associated with later impairment, sample children trauma histories. Within this quasi-experimental, repeated-measures study, we examined acceleration at baseline postintervention low-income receiving CPP treatment (

Language: Английский

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Programming the next generation of prenatal programming of stress research: A review and suggestions for the future of the field

Development and Psychopathology, Journal Year: 2024, Volume and Issue: unknown, P. 1 - 14

Published: March 14, 2024

Abstract In this article, I highlight core ideas, empirical findings, and advances in the study of how stress during pregnancy may prenatally program child neurodevelopmental, psychopathological, health outcomes, emphasizing reviews, metanalyses, recent contributions conceptual work. The article offers a perspective on history area science, underrecognized influential scholars from diverse fields study, what we know evidence to date, persistent challenges sorting through is left learn, suggestions for future research. include sections focused promoting resilience, interventions that demonstrate positive effects across two generations, translational implications accruing data practice policy, highlighting opportunities integrating range sectors. concluding sections, discuss lessons learned conducting work provide closing summary progress directions. goal writing was viewpoint some ways emerging intergenerational transmission might responsibly contribute field developmental psychopathology.

Language: Английский

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Parent-child border separation and the road to repair: addressing a global refugee phenomenon

Attachment & Human Development, Journal Year: 2024, Volume and Issue: unknown, P. 1 - 36

Published: Sept. 23, 2024

As a result of the Department Homeland Security's zero-tolerance policy (ZTP), over 5,000 children were separated from their parents at U.S. southern border 2017-2021, with 1,000 still lacking confirmed reunifications. Separations also occur daily due to immigration raids, chaotic processing, and changing policies. This article addresses most fundamental question faced by families enduring such separations; how mend attachment bonds that have been suddenly severed, especially within population likely already traumatized. The paper begins updating readers about separation in United States offers concise summary consequences child-parent separation. then introduces Child-Parent Psychotherapy (CPP) as an intervention for affected families. uniquely applies CPP older provides three case examples its use treating Finally, general suggestions supporting these

Language: Английский

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Prospective associations of prenatal stress with child behavior: Moderation by the early childhood caregiving environment

Development and Psychopathology, Journal Year: 2024, Volume and Issue: unknown, P. 1 - 12

Published: May 13, 2024

Fetal exposure to prenatal stress can increase risk for psychopathology but postnatal caregiving may offset risk. This study tests whether maternal sensitivity and the home environment during early childhood modify associations of with offspring behavior in a sample 127 mother-child pairs (

Language: Английский

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Child-Parent Psychotherapy: An Evidence-Based Treatment for Infants and Young Children

Published: Jan. 1, 2024

Language: Английский

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