Trial reportAttachment & human development2013
New Beginnings for mothers and babies in prison: a cluster randomized controlled trial.
Trial report in Attachment & human development, 2013. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 32 papers, 5 of them syntheses that pooled it.
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32 citing papers in PubMed, 5 syntheses or guidelines pooled it.
- Manualised Attachment-Based Interventions for Improving Caregiver-Infant Relationships: A Two-Stage Systematic Review.Clinical child and family psychology review · 2025Pooled it
- Parental Reflective Functioning and Its Association With Parenting Behaviors in Infancy and Early Childhood: A Systematic Review.Frontiers in psychology · 2022Pooled it
- Outcomes of psychological therapies for prisoners with mental health problems: A systematic review and meta-analysis.Journal of consulting and clinical psychology · 2017Pooled it
- A systematic review of randomized controlled trials of interventions to improve the health of persons during imprisonment and in the year after release.American journal of public health · 2015Pooled it
- Parent-infant psychotherapy for improving parental and infant mental health.The Cochrane database of systematic reviews · 2015Pooled it
- Impacts of the Attachment and Child Health (ATTACHInternational journal of environmental research and public health · 2023Trial
- Efficacy of parent-infant psychotherapy with mothers with postpartum mental disorder: results from a randomized controlled trial.Child and adolescent psychiatry and mental health · 2026Article
- Mentalization-based intervention for parents with elevated parenting stress: protocol of a RCT of the lighthouse parenting programme in China.Frontiers in psychology · 2026Article
- Maternal reflective functioning in pregnancy and parenting during the preschool period.Infant mental health journal · 2025Article
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- A follow-up study of the "Lighthouse" mentalization-based parenting program: Mentalization as a mediator of change.Clinical child psychology and psychiatry · 2024Article
- Parental Reflective Capacities: A Scoping Review of Mindful Parenting and Parental Reflective Functioning.Mindfulness · 2024Article
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- A rapid review of the evidence on models of service delivery for correctional centre-based mothers and children's units: does our approach need to change?BMJ global health · 2024Review
- Are custodial-based mothers and children's units evaluated, effective and aligned with a human rights-based approach? - A systematic review of the evidence.EClinicalMedicine · 2024Article
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- Self-reported reflective functioning and father-child interactions in a sample of fathers who have used intimate partner violence.Infant mental health journal · 2023Article
- Intergenerational Transmission of Attachment between Incarcerated Mothers and Their Co-residing Children.Turk psikiyatri dergisi = Turkish journal of psychiatry · 2023Article
- Impact of the Mediational Intervention for Sensitizing Caregivers on Mentalizing in Orphans and Vulnerable Children in South Africa.Journal of infant, child, and adolescent psychotherapy : JICAP · 2023Article
- Effect of Attachment and Child Health (ATTACHInternational journal of environmental research and public health · 2022Article
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Abstract
Mothers in prison represent a high-risk parenting population. New Beginnings is an attachment-based group intervention designed specifically for mothers and babies in prison. This cluster randomized trial examined the outcomes for 88 mothers and babies participating in the New Beginnings program and 75 dyads residing in prisons where the intervention did not take place. Outcomes were measured in terms of parental reflective functioning, the quality of parent-infant interaction, maternal depression, and maternal representations. Mothers in the control group deteriorated in their level of reflective functioning and behavioral interaction with their babies over time, whereas the mothers in the intervention group did not. There were no significant group effects on levels of maternal depression or mothers' self-reported representations of their babies over time. An attachment-based intervention may mitigate some of the risks to the quality of the parent-infant relationship for these dyads.
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