Course: Babies in Mind: Why the Parent's Mind Matters

Recent research has begun to identify the importance of the mother’s capacity for mental representations, or her imagined relationship with her baby, in pregnancy. Maternal representations in pregnancy can be …

This video depicts the way in which the development of the foetus is not only influenced by genes but by the external environment in terms of factors that affect the …

We have examined in some detail the concept of reflective functioning, and the way in which this affects parent-infant interaction. It has been hypothesised that the particular aspect of interaction …

The research has consistently shown that the parent’s attachment status is a significant predictor of the infant’s attachment status. For example, a review of studies that had measured adult attachment …

This video discusses the importance of interactions between the parent and infant that are characterised by a ‘serve and return’ pattern in which the baby might initiate an interaction with …

In this section of the course we have been examining infant attachment. There are now a number of longitudinal studies in which parents and babies have been followed up over …