1,009
Views
64
CrossRef citations to date
0
Altmetric
Original Articles

Caregiver traumatization adversely impacts young children's mental representations on the MacArthur Story Stem Battery

, , , , , , & show all
Pages 187-205 | Published online: 04 Dec 2007

References

  • Bar Haim , Y. , Fox , N. A. , Van Meenen , K. M. and Marshall , P. J. 2004 . Children's narratives and patterns of cardiac reactivity . Developmental Psychobiology , 44 : 238 – 249 .
  • Bowlby , J. 1940 . The influence of early environment in the development of neurosis and neurotic character . International Journal of Psycho-Analysis , 21 : 1 – 25 .
  • Bowlby , J. 1973 . Attachment and loss. Vol. 2: Separation: Anxiety and anger , 322 – 323 . New York : Basic Books .
  • Bretherton , I. , Oppenheim , D. , Emde , R. N. and the MacArthur Narrative Working Group . 2003 . “ The MacArthur Story Stem Battery ” . In Revealing the inner worlds of young children: The MacArthur Story Stem Battery and parent – child narratives , Edited by: Emde , R. N. , Wolf , D. P. and Oppenheim , D. 381 – 396 . New York : Oxford University Press .
  • Bretherton , I. , Ridgeway , D. and Cassidy , J. 1990 . “ Assessing internal working models of the attachment relationship: An attachment story completion task for 3-year-olds ” . In Attachment during the preschool years , Edited by: Greenberg , M. , Cicchetti , D. and Cummings , E. M. 272 – 308 . Chicago : University of Chicago Press .
  • Dixon , L. , Browne , K. and Hamilton-Giachritsis , C. 2005 . Risk factors of parents abused as children: A mediational analysis of the intergenerational continuity of child maltreatment (Part I) . Journal of Child Psychology and Psychiatry , 46 : 47 – 57 .
  • Dunn , L. I. M. and Dunn , L. M. 1997 . Peabody picture vocabulary scale , 3rd ed. , Circle Pines, MN : American Guidance Service .
  • Egeland , B. and Susman-Stillman , A. 1996 . Dissociation as a mediator of child abuse across generations . Child Abuse & Neglect , 20 : 1123 – 1132 .
  • First , M. B. , Gibbon , M. , Spitzer , R. L. and Williams , J. B. W. 1995 . Structured clinical interview for DSM-IV axis I disorders , Washington, DC : American Psychiatric Press, Inc. .
  • Fraiberg , S. , Adelson , E. and Shapiro , V. 1975 . Ghosts in the nursery: A psychoanalytic approach to the problems of impaired infant – mother relationships . Journal of the American Academy of Child & Adolescent Psychiatry , 14 : 387 – 421 .
  • Grych , J. H. , Wachsmuth-Schlaefer , T. and Klockow , L. L. 2002 . Interparental aggression and young children's representations of family relationships . Journal of Family Psychology , 16 : 259 – 272 .
  • Holden , G. and Ritchie , K. 1991 . Linking extreme marital discord, child rearing, and child behavior problems: evidence from battered women . Child Development , 2 : 311 – 327 .
  • Huth-Bocks , A. C. , Levendovsky , A. A. , Theran , S. A. and Bogat , G. A. 2004 . The impact of domestic violence on mothers' prenatal representations of their infants . Infant Mental Health Journal , 25 : 79 – 98 .
  • Johnson , J. H. and McCutcheon , S. M. 1980 . Assessing life stress in children and adolescents: Preliminary findings of the Life Events Checklist, in Stress and Anxiety Volume 7 , Edited by: Spiegelberger , C. D. and Sarason , I. G. 111 – 125 . Washington, DC : Hemisphere Publishers .
  • Laor , N. , Wolmer , L. and Cohen , D. J. 2001 . Mothers' functioning and children's symptoms 5 years after a SCUD missile attack . American Journal of Psychiatry , 158 : 1020 – 1026 .
  • Leifer , M. , Kilbane , T. , Jacobsen , T. and Grossman , G. 2004 . A three-generational study of transmission of risk for sexual abuse . Journal of Clinical Child and Adolescent Psychology , 33 : 662 – 672 .
  • Lieberman , A. F. , Van Horn , P. and Ippen , C. G. 2005 . Towards evidence-based treatment: Child – parent psychotherapy with preschoolers exposed to marital violence . Journal of the American Academy of Child & Adolescent Psychiatry , 44 : 1241 – 1248 .
  • Linares , L. O. , Groves , B. M. , Greenberg , J. , Bronfman , E. , Augustyn , M. and Zuckerman , B. 1999 . Restraining orders: a frequent marker of adverse maternal health . Pediatrics , 104 : 249 – 257 .
  • Liotti , G. 1999 . “ Disorganization of attachment as a model for understanding dissociative psychopathology ” . In Attachment disorganization , Edited by: Solomon , J. and George , C. 291 – 317 . New York : The Guilford Press .
  • Lyons-Ruth , K. and Block , D. 1996 . The disturbed caregiving system: Relations among childhood trauma, maternal caregiving, and infant affect and attachment . Infant Mental Health Journal , 17 : 257 – 275 .
  • Lyons-Ruth , K. , Bronfman , E. and Parsons , E. 1999 . Atypical attachment in infancy and early childhood among children at developmental risk. IV. Maternal frightened, frightening, or atypical behavior and infant disorganized attachment patterns . Monographs of the Society for Research on Child Development , 64 : 67 – 96 .
  • Lyons-Ruth , K. , Dutra , L. , Schuder , M. R. and Bianchi , I. 2006 . From infant attachment disorganization to adult dissociation: Relational adaptations or traumatic experiences? . Psychiatric Clinics of North America , 29 : 63 – 86 .
  • Macfie , J. , Cicchetti , D. and Toth , S. L. 2001 . The development of dissociation in maltreated preschool-aged children . Development and Psychopathology , 13 : 233 – 254 .
  • Macfie , J. , Toth , S. L. , Rogosch , F. A. , Robinson , J. , Emde , R. N. and Cicchetti , D. 1999 . Effect of maltreatment on preschoolers' narrative representations of responses to relieve distress and of role reversal . Development and Psychopathology , 35 : 460 – 465 .
  • Main , M. 2000 . The organized categories of infant, child, and adult attachment . Journal of the American Psychoanalytic Association , 48 : 1055 – 1095 .
  • Main , M. , Kaplan , K. and Cassidy , J. 1985 . “ Security in infancy, childhood and adulthood: A move to the level of representation ” . In Growing points of attachment theory and research. Monographs of the Society for Research in Child Development Edited by: Bretherton , I. and Waters , E. Vol. 50(1 – 2) , 66 – 104 .
  • Marshall , R. D. , Schneier , F. R. , Fallon , B. A. , Knight , C. B. , Abbate , L. A. , Goetz , D. , Campeas , R. and Liebowitz , M. R. 1998 . An open trial of paroxetine in patients with noncombat-related, chronic posttraumatic stress disorder . Journal of Clinical Psychopharmacology , 18 : 10 – 18 .
  • Martin , S. L. , Moracco , K. E. , Garro , J. , Tsui , A. O. , Kupper , L. L. Chase , J. L. 2002 . Domestic violence across generations: findings from northern India . International Journal of Epidemiology , 31 : 560 – 572 .
  • McFarlane , J. M. , Groff , J. Y. and O'Brien , J. A. 2003 . Behaviors of children who are exposed and not exposed to intimate partner violence: An analysis of 330 black, white, and Hispanic children . Pediatrics , 112 : 202 – 207 .
  • Oliver , J. E. 1993 . Intergenerational transmission of child abuse: Rates, research, and clinical implications . American Journal of Psychiatry , 150 : 1315 – 1324 .
  • Pears , K. C. and Capaldi , L. A. 2001 . Intergenerational transmission of abuse: A two-generational prospective study of an at-risk sample . Child Abuse and Neglect , 25 : 1439 – 1461 .
  • Putnam , F. W. , Helmers , K. , Horowitz , L. A. and Trickett , P. K. 1993 . Development, reliability, and validity of a child dissociation scale . Child Abuse and Neglect , 17 : 731 – 741 .
  • Robinson , J. , Herot , C. , Haynes , P. and Mantz-Simmons , L. 2000 . Children's story stem responses: A measure of program impact on developmental risks associated with dysfunctional parenting . Child Abuse and Neglect , 24 : 99 – 110 .
  • Robinson , J. , Mantz-Simmons , L. , Macfie , J. and The MacArthur Narrative Working Group . 1992 . Unpublished manuscript, University of Colorado Health Sciences Center, Denver
  • Schechter , D. S. 2003 . “ Intergenerational communication of maternal violent trauma: Understanding the interplay of reflective functioning and posttraumatic psychopathology ” . In September 11: Trauma and human bonds , Edited by: Coates , S. W. , Rosenthal , J. L. and Schechter , D. S. 115 – 142 . Hillside, NJ : The Analytic Press, Inc. .
  • Schechter , D. S. . Maternal PTSD and availability for mutual emotion regulation with toddlers . Paper presented at Trauma in Infants and Preschoolers: An Update. Symposium with Michael Scheerings, Charles Zeanah, Mary Margaret Gleason, 53rd Annual Meeting of the American and Mexican Academies of Child & Adolescent Psychiatry . San Diego. October ,
  • Schechter , D. S. , Coots , T. , Zeanah , C. H. , Davies , M. , Coates , S. W. Trabka , K. A. 2005 . Maternal mental representations of the child in an inner-city clinical sample: Violence-related posttraumatic stress and reflective functioning . Attachment and Human Development , 7 : 313 – 331 .
  • Schechter , D. S. , Kaminer , T. , Grienenberger , J. and Amat , J. 2003 . Fits and starts: A mother – infant case-study involving pseudoseizures across 3 generations in the context of violent trauma history . Infant Mental Health Journal , 24 : 510 – 528 .
  • Schechter , D. S. , Zeanah , C. H. , Myers , M. M. , Brunelli , S. A. , Liebowitz , M. R. Marshall , R. D. 2004 . Psychobiological dysregulation in violence-exposed mothers: Salivary cortisol of mothers with very young children pre- and post-separation stress . Bulletin of the Menninger Clinic , 68 : 319 – 336 .
  • Scheeringa , M. S. and Zeanah , C. H. 2001 . A relational perspective on PTSD in early childhood . Journal of Traumatic Stress , 14 : 799 – 815 .
  • Schuengel , C. , Bakermans-Kranenburg , M. J. and van IJzendoorn , M. H. 1999 . Frightening maternal behavior linking unresolved loss and disorganized infant attachment . Journal of Consulting and Clinical Psychology , l67 : 54 – 63 .
  • Stovall-McClough , K. C. and Cloitre , M. 2006 . Unresolved attachment, PTSD, and dissociation in women with childhood abuse histories . Journal of Consulting and Clinical Psychology , 74 : 219 – 228 .
  • Toth , S. L. , Cicchetti , D. , Macfie , J. and Emde , R. N. 1997 . Representations of self and other in the narratives of neglected, physically abused, and sexually abused preschoolers . Development and Psychopathology , 9 : 781 – 796 .
  • Toth , S. L. , Maughan , A. , Manly , J. T. , Spagnola , M. and Cicchetti , D. 2002 . The relative efficacy of two interventions in altering maltreated preschool children's representational models: Implications for attachment theory . Development & Psychopathology , 14 : 877 – 908 .
  • Widom , C. S. 1999 . Posttraumatic stress disorder in abused and neglected children grown up . American Journal of Psychiatry , 156 : 1223 – 1229 .
  • Yehuda , R. , Halligan , S. L. and Bierer , L. M. 2001 . Relationship of parental trauma exposure and PTSD to PTSD, depressive and anxiety disorders in offspring . Journal of Psychiatric Research , 35 : 261 – 270 .

Reprints and Corporate Permissions

Please note: Selecting permissions does not provide access to the full text of the article, please see our help page How do I view content?

To request a reprint or corporate permissions for this article, please click on the relevant link below:

Academic Permissions

Please note: Selecting permissions does not provide access to the full text of the article, please see our help page How do I view content?

Obtain permissions instantly via Rightslink by clicking on the button below:

If you are unable to obtain permissions via Rightslink, please complete and submit this Permissions form. For more information, please visit our Permissions help page.