Negative and Distorted Attributions Towards Child, Self, and Primary Attachment Figure Among Posttraumatically Stressed Mothers: What Changes with Clinician Assisted Videofeedback Exposure Sessions (CAVES)

Child Psychiatry and Human Development

Volumn 46, Issue 1, 2015, Pages 10-20

  Schechter, Daniel S ^a,b,c   Moser, Dominik A ^a,b   Reliford, Aaron ^c   McCaw, Jaime E ^c   Coates, Susan W ^c   Turner, J Blake ^c   Serpa, Sandra Rusconi ^a,b   Willheim, Erica ^c  

^a GENEVA UNIVERSITY HOSPITALS   (Switzerland)

^b UNIVERSITY OF GENEVA   (Switzerland)

^c New York Presbyterian Columbia University Medical Center   (United States)

Author keywords

Infant and early childhood mental health; Intergenerational transmission of violence and trauma; Interpersonal violence; Maternal attributions; Maternal PTSD; Videofeedback intervention

Indexed keywords

ADAPTIVE BEHAVIOR; ADOLESCENT; ADULT; FEMALE; HUMAN; INFANT; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MOTHER; MOTHER CHILD RELATION; OBJECT RELATION; POSTTRAUMATIC STRESS DISORDER; PRESCHOOL CHILD; PROCEDURES; PSYCHOLOGY; PSYCHOTHERAPY; VIDEORECORDING; VIOLENCE; YOUNG ADULT;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; FEEDBACK, PSYCHOLOGICAL; FEMALE; HUMANS; INFANT; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MOTHER-CHILD RELATIONS; MOTHERS; OBJECT ATTACHMENT; PSYCHOTHERAPY; STRESS DISORDERS, POST-TRAUMATIC; VIDEO RECORDING; VIOLENCE; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 84893849202     PISSN: 0009398X     EISSN: 15733327     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10578-014-0447-5     Document Type: Article

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