MI-AIMH is honored to help bring important research to the forefront—especially when it's freely accessible to our field.
A new set of open access articles from Infant Mental Health Journal: Infancy and Early Childhood is now available—covering everything from early regulation and reflective functioning to racial equity, decolonizing infant mental health, and new findings about father involvement and home visiting.
Whether you're working directly with families, leading policy efforts, or mentoring the next generation of providers, we hope these articles spark reflection and connection.
Review Articles
A systematic review and meta-analysis of parental mentalization in fathers and mothers from Trepiak et al
Self-regulation in moderate-to-late preterm children: A scoping review from Feher et al
Focus on Child Social-Emotional Outcomes
The role of child language ability and parental mentalization in early child dysregulation from Cibralic et al
Holding dysregulation in mind: How maternal mind-mindedness relates to regulatory symptoms and disorders in infancy from Georg et al
Parent and child gender effects in the relationship between attachment and both internalizing and externalizing problems of children between 2 and 5 years old: A dyadic perspective from Matetovici et al
Attachment of toddlers in care with the moderating role of temperament: Turkish care types study from Bahtiyar-Saygan et al
Mentalization-Related Parenting
Maternal reflective functioning in pregnancy and parenting during the preschool period from Drury et al
The freedom to mentalize: The influence of socio-demographic indicators of empowerment on parental reflective functioning from Dawson et al
Profiles of parental reflective functioning and mind-mindedness in first-time parents of 4-month-old infants from Madsen et al
Lenses of Equity
A decolonial perspective on Indigenous infant and early childhood mental health: Reclaiming Indigenous ways for the next seven generations from Richardson et al
Perinatal discrimination and maternal depressive symptoms associated with infant development in African American families from Jones Harden et al
Holding up the mirror: The role of teacher educators and syllabi in perpetuating or disrupting inequity from Batz et al
Parenting and Early Relationships
An intervention to address prenatal anxiety improves maternal-infant bonding, with effects mediated by maternal-infant responsiveness, maternal self-efficacy, and postpartum depression from Olivas et al
Secondary benefits of a brief couples intervention on coparenting through relationship quality and partner conflict from Demy et al
Presence and respect: Childrearing in an intercultural Chilean city from Mingo & Mistry
Pediatric and Home Settings:
Effectiveness and treatment moderators of parenting interventions in Finnish perinatal primary care from Flykt et al
Home-based family recovery supports: Feasibility, acceptability, and adoption of training home visitors in “Mothering from the Inside Out” from Peacock-Chambers et al
Mental Health Consultation
Creating a statewide model of infant and early childhood mental health consultation: A Colorado case study from Franko et al
Improved classroom and child outcomes through mental health consultation in New York City subsidized early care and education programs from Kadik et al
Readiness for change in early childhood education: Insights from social emotional coaches and infant and early childhood mental health consultants from Tidus & Williford
Focus on Fathers
Father involvement and child social adjustment: The chain mediating effects of the father–child relationship and mother marital satisfaction from Song & Wang
Differences between men and women accessing an Australian perinatal and infant mental health care navigation service—Why do fathers seek help? from Harris et al
Measures
Validation of the Parental Reflective Functioning Questionnaire in Finnish mothers and fathers of toddlers from Flykt et al
Validating the parental reflective functioning questionnaire - infant version using a rasch model from Stuart et al
Baby steps of parenting: Turkish adaptation of Infancy Parenting Styles Questionnaire and mother- and infant-related characteristics affecting parenting in infancy from Bahtiyar-Saygan