Infant Mental Health Journal

Papers
(The median citation count of Infant Mental Health Journal is 1. The table below lists those papers that are above that threshold based on CrossRef citation counts [max. 250 papers]. The publications cover those that have been published in the past four years, i.e., from 2021-08-01 to 2025-08-01.)
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Research practices that promote cultural equity and sensitivity from PI to participant: Learned lessons from reexamining the working model of the child interview (WMCI) with Black mothers77
Father‐child bonding among Japanese fathers of infants: A municipal‐based study at the time of the 4‐month child health checkup27
Fathers’ experiences of fetal attachment: A qualitative study27
Is participation in antenatal classes associated with fathers' mental health? A quasi‐experimental and prospective study26
Holding up the mirror: The role of teacher educators and syllabi in perpetuating or disrupting inequity25
The impact of COVID‐19 on the continuum of integrated perinatal, infant, and early childhood behavioral health services23
Effects of integrated programs for substance‐involved mothers on infant and child development outcomes: A systematic review and meta‐analysis21
Evaluation of the Pregnancy to Parenthood program: A dyadic intervention for mothers with perinatal mental disorders and their infants20
Household chaos and parenting: The effect of household chaos does not depend on sensory‐processing sensitivity and self‐regulation20
Disrupted maternal communication and disorganized attachment in the Arab society in Israel19
Risk factors associated with higher scores in internalizing and externalizing behaviors in Chilean preschoolers19
Our way of being: Infant and Early Childhood Mental Health workforce development in Tennessee18
Infants of mothers with early remitted clinical depression and mothers with no postpartum depression: Adaptive functioning in the second year of life18
Family risk and early attachment development: The differential role of parental sensitivity16
Parenting stress and competence among mothers of young children with substance use disorders: The roles of trauma and reflective functioning15
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Patient navigation models for mental health of parents expecting or caring for an infant or young child: A systematic review15
Testing reliability and validity of practitioner‐rated parental sensitivity: A novel tool for practice15
Associations between parenting representations and behavior among young mothers and mothers with opioid use disorder15
Maternal caregiving representations of the infant in the first year of life: Associations with prenatal and concurrent reflective functioning13
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Validating the parental reflective functioning questionnaire ‐ infant version using a rasch model13
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Introduction to special section doing the “right” thing: Ethical issues in infant and early childhood mental health12
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Engaging Indigenous communities in research to inform practice: The multisite implementation evaluation of Tribal home visiting12
Maternal postnatal depressive symptoms and early achievement of developmental milestones in infants and young children: A meta‐analysis11
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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 perspective10
Latin American Attachment studies: A narrative review10
Current approaches and future directions for addressing ethics in infant and early childhood mental health10
Impacts of COVID‐19 on early childhood mental health10
Reframing caring for parents who struggle with substance‐use disorders9
Childhood maltreatment history and trauma‐specific predictors of parenting stress in new fathers9
Effects of a virtual supportive program on the knowledge of mothers of preterm infants and their bonding9
Differences in infant negative affectivity during the COVID‐19 pandemic9
Cultural relevance of fine motor domain of the ASQ in Guatemala9
What factors influence dyadic synchrony? A systematic review of the literature on predictors of mother–infant dyadic processes of shared behavior and affect9
Newborn behavioral observations system in rural Pakistan: A feasibility and acceptability study9
Exploring resting frontal EEG and reflective functioning in maternal substance use9
Bridging attachment theory and interpersonal acceptance‐rejection theory in the strange situation procedure in a low‐risk sample in Egypt8
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Presence and respect: Childrearing in an intercultural Chilean city8
Increased behavioral health needs and continued psychosocial stress among children with medical complexity and their families during the COVID‐19 pandemic8
Adverse childhood experiences and maternal self‐efficacy: Examining the mediating role of intimate partner violence and the moderating role of caste membership in rural India8
Enhancing early parenting in the community: Preliminary results from a learning collaborative approach to scale up Attachment and Biobehavioral Catch‐up8
Validation of parental stress scale in a Greek sample of mothers with infants from 0 to 12 months8
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Mothering from the Inside Out: Results of a community‐based randomized efficacy trial testing a mentalization‐based parenting intervention for mothers with addictions7
Mind the Gap(s): Reflective supervision/consultation as a mechanism for addressing implicit bias and reducing our knowledge gaps7
The HEADS‐ED under 6: Piloting a new communimetric mental health and developmental screening and triage tool for young children7
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Offline and online parental mentalizing in mothers with symptoms of postpartum depression: Examining the association between self‐reported parental reflective functioning and interactional mind‐minded7
Telehealth adaptation of perinatal mental health mother–infant group programming for the COVID‐19 pandemic7
Preventing early harsh parenting and toddler behavior problems: The role of neighborhood collective efficacy among low‐income Latine families7
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Maternal self‐efficacy during infancy: Investigating the roles of depression and social support among mothers in rural Pakistan6
The effects of parental marital quality on preschool children's social–emotional competence: The chain mediating model of parent–child and sibling relationships6
One state's journey with a reflective supervision professional development series: Development, implementation, and adaptation6
Improved classroom and child outcomes through mental health consultation in New York City subsidized early care and education programs6
Prenatal expectations and other psycho‐social factors as risk factors of postnatal bonding disturbance6
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Japanese infants’ attachment insecurity and externalizing/internalizing problems: Using strange situation and attachment Q‐sort methods6
Movement through motherhood: Exploring mood, wellbeing, and prenatal emotional availability (EA) through EA‐based dance intervention6
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A systematic review and meta‐analysis of parental mentalization in fathers and mothers6
Taking care of the caregivers: The moderating role of reflective supervision in the relationship between COVID‐19 stress and the mental and professional well‐being of the IECMH workforce5
Experiences of childbirth care among mothers in Lithuania during COVID‐195
Infant mental health integration into OB care leads to increased connection to services during the perinatal period5
Looking back to light the path forward: Ghosts in the Nursery revisited5
At the feet of storytellers: Implications for practicing early relational health conversations5
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Infant carrying: Associations with parental reflective functioning, parental bonding and parental responses to infant crying5
Connecting during COVID: The application of teleservices in two integrated perinatal settings5
Suspension and expulsion in Colorado early care and education settings: Child, program, and community‐level predictors5
“When I hold my daughter, she quiets, no need [for]any verbal conversation”: A qualitative understanding of responsive caregiving in rural, Sindh Pakistan5
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The role of experience in parenting beliefs of British and Italian women during pregnancy4
Childcare providers’ views of challenging child behaviors, suspension, and expulsion: A qualitative analysis4
The prenatal caregiving expectations questionnaire‐revised version: Factor structure, internal consistency, and initial construct validity4
Is lower fetal heart rate variability a susceptibility marker to the impact of negative coparenting on infant regulatory capacity?4
From the voices of supervisees: What is reflective supervision and how does it support their work? (Part I)4
Using the candidacy framework to conceptualize systems and gaps when developing infant mental health (IMH) services: A qualitative study4
Transitioning to virtual interaction during the COVID‐19 pandemic: Impact on the Family Connects postpartum home visiting program activity4
Secondary benefits of a brief couples intervention on coparenting through relationship quality and partner conflict4
Bringing a mentalizing framework to understanding mothers with addiction: The groundbreaking work of Nancy E. Suchman4
Randomized controlled trial of a prenatal focused coparenting consultation for unmarried black fathers and mothers: One‐year infant and family outcomes4
DC: 0–5 system in clinical assessment with specialty pediatric populations4
Dual trajectories of parenting self‐efficacy and depressive symptoms in new, postpartum mothers and socioemotional adjustment in early childhood: A growth mixture model4
Reflective supervision and consultation and its impact within early childhood‐serving programs: A systematic review4
Consultant perception of the feasibility and effectiveness of infant and early childhood mental health consultation services provided virtually to early care and education4
Two babies, two bonds: Frequency and correlates of differential maternal‐infant bonding in mothers of twins4
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Parental sensitivity and family conversation: A naturalistic longitudinal study with both mothers and fathers across three time‐points in early infancy3
Transitioning to telehealth due to COVID‐19: Maintaining model fidelity in a home visiting program for parents of vulnerable infants3
Low‐income fathers are emotionally resilient: A qualitative exploration of paternal emotions across early parenting3
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Enhancing maternal sensitivity in contexts of urban extreme poverty in Sierra Leone: A pilot study3
Scaling up Attachment and Biobehavioral Catch‐up with Latine families: Implementation processes and effectiveness3
Psychometrics of psychosocial behavior items under age 6 years: Evidence from Nebraska, USA3
Evaluating the use of the AMBIANCE‐Brief measure in clinical settings: Assessing acceptability, feasibility, and utility of the AMBIANCE‐Brief3
Framing the work: A coparenting model for guiding infant mental health engagement with families3
Possibilities and power during early Head Start Home visits: Comparing family‐ and home visitor‐opened decision‐making3
Dyadic parent–infant interaction patterns at 12 months: Exploring dyadic parent–infant gender compositions3
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Evaluating child maltreatment and family violence risk during the COVID‐19 Pandemic: Using a telehealth home visiting program as a conduit to families2
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Learning Landscapes, caregivers, and young children: Results from a multiple methods study2
The impact of the “Attachment and Biobehavioural Catch‐Up” program on attachment related parent behavior—A systematic review2
The protective effects of social support and family functioning on parenting stress among Hispanic/Latino/a American immigrant parents with traumatic life experiences: A mediation analysis2
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Effectiveness and treatment moderators of parenting interventions in Finnish perinatal primary care2
Self‐regulation in moderate‐to‐late preterm children: A scoping review2
Holding dysregulation in mind: How maternal mind‐mindedness relates to regulatory symptoms and disorders in infancy2
How do maternal and child health nurses incorporate infant mental health promotion into their clinical practice? Experiences of an Australian municipality2
The effect of the separation of mother‐preterm newborn infants hospitalized during the COVID‐19 pandemic on maternal depression and stress levels, infant development, and bonding quality on Chilean dy2
“You go in heavy and you come out light”: An interpretative phenomenological analysis of reflective practice experiences in an Irish infant mental health setting2
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The ethics of infant and early childhood mental health practice2
Profiles of parental reflective functioning and mind‐mindedness in first‐time parents of 4‐month‐old infants2
Envisioning motherhood: Mental‐state language in caregiving narratives across the perinatal period2
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Self‐criticism, maternal emotional distress, and maternal hostility among Bedouin mothers with preterm infants2
Partner‐inclusive prenatal intervention to promote parenting readiness: Results from a pilot trial2
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Early parent‐child interaction and home environments of children exposed prenatally to opioids: A comparison of biological mothers and out‐of‐home caregivers2
In‐the‐moment ratings on the Early Relational Health Screen: A pilot study of application in home visiting and primary care2
Hostile‐helpless states of mind: A scoping review of risk factors, correlates, and consequences2
Readiness for change in early childhood education: Insights from social emotional coaches and infant and early childhood mental health consultants2
Does maternal inhibitory control mediate effects of a parenting intervention on maternal sensitive discipline? Evidence from a randomized‐controlled trial2
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Attachment of toddlers in care with the moderating role of temperament: Turkish care types study1
“You do need to do the interaction”: Mothers’ perceptions of responsive parenting following a home‐based parenting intervention1
Understanding links between maternal perinatal posttraumatic stress symptoms and infant socioemotional and physical health1
Adapting Attachment and Biobehavioral Catch‐up for infants and young children with intellectual disabilities and developmental delays in South Africa: Reflections and recommendations from local stakeh1
Child‐focused infant and early childhood mental health consultation: Shifting adult attributions to reduce the risk for preschool expulsion1
Intergenerational impacts of racial discrimination on child executive functioning problems1
Enhancing parental reflective functioning: A special tribute to the life and work of Nancy E. Suchman, PhD1
The context and development of the early relational health screen1
Art at the Start: A controlled trial and close observation of parent‐infant art therapy intervention1
Self‐reported reflective functioning and father–child interactions in a sample of fathers who have used intimate partner violence1
Adapting psychophysiological data collection for COVID‐19: The “Virtual Assessment” model1
Parental Reflective Functioning on the Parent Development Interview: A narrative review of measurement, association, and future directions1
An exploration of parenting styles, cultural values, and infant development in a sample of Latin American immigrants in Canada1
An explanatory model of parental sensitivity in the mother–father–infant triad1
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The validation of the Self‐Care Belief and Behavior Questionnaire in the Infant and Early Child Mental Health Workforce1
What works for whom? Mother's psychological distress as a moderator of the effectiveness of a home visiting intervention1
Maternal reflective functioning in pregnancy and parenting during the preschool period1
Development of a tool for infant facial emotion recognition (InFER) for postpartum mothers with mental illnesses1
Self‐report measure of parental reflective functioning: A study of reliability and validity across three samples of varying clinical risk1
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Facilitating caregiver‐child interactions in home visiting: A qualitative observational study1
Pilot test of a measure to assess clients’ perceptions of their home visitors1
“There's more love between us”: The parental experience of attending Mellow Babies, a targeted, early intervention program for parents and their babies1
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Transaction of parental cognition, stress and depressive symptoms, and infant regulatory challenges1
The undertold story: A leadership program to expand recognition of the importance of early childhood experiences1
Updating the evidence: A systematic review of a decade of Infant and Early Childhood Mental Health Consultation (IECMHC) research1
Adaptation of infant mental health services to preterm infants and their families receiving neonatal intensive care unit services during the COVID‐19 pandemic1
Infants’ and toddlers’ digital media use and mothers’ mental health: A comparative study before and during the COVID‐19 pandemic1
Evaluation of the Danish version of the prenatal parental reflective functioning questionnaire in early pregnancy as a screening tool1
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Savoring interventions for mothers of young children: Mechanisms linking relational savoring and personal savoring to reflective functioning1
Multimodal assessments of preterm temperament across the first year of life: Continuity, stability, and moderation by country of origin and infant age1
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A qualitative exploration of caregivers’ experiences with the Attachment and Biobehavioral Catch‐up (ABC) parenting program1
Creating a statewide model of infant and early childhood mental health consultation: A Colorado case study1
Associations between mothers’ emotion regulation and real‐time experiences of negative emotion: The moderating role of caregiving context1
Do toys get in the way? The duration of shared emotional experiences is longer when mothers engage their infants without toys1
Parenting the parent without losing sight of the child. A qualitative study of therapists’ experiences with intergenerational adversities in perinatal psychotherapy1
Young mothers’ prenatal attachment and later attachment‐related representations of their young children1
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