ArticleAttachment & human development2016
Mothering from the Inside Out: results of a pilot study testing a mentalization-based therapy for mothers enrolled in mental health services.
Article in Attachment & human development, 2016. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. It is linked to trial NCT01872585 (Feasibility Study of a Mentalization-based Parenting Program for Female Caregivers Involved in Mental Health Services.), which is not on this map. Cited by 19 papers, 1 of them a synthesis that pooled it.
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Feasibility Study of a Mentalization-based Parenting Program for Female Caregivers Involved in Mental Health Services.
Who cites it
19 citing papers in PubMed, 1 synthesis or guideline pooled it, 62 citations in OpenAlex.
- Mentalization-based interventions in schools for enhancing socio-emotional competencies and positive behaviour: a systematic review.European child & adolescent psychiatry · 2025Pooled it
- A randomized pilot trial of two parenting interventions for fathers in residential substance use disorder treatment.Journal of substance abuse treatment · 2019Trial
- The development of a brief parenting intervention to improve children's understanding of emotions: A Delphi study.Psychology and psychotherapy · 2026Article
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- Home-based family recovery supports: Feasibility, acceptability, and adoption of training home visitors in "Mothering from the Inside Out".Infant mental health journal · 2025Article
- Parental Reflective Capacities: A Scoping Review of Mindful Parenting and Parental Reflective Functioning.Mindfulness · 2024Article
- The Impact of COVID on Early Intervention Parenting Support for Mothers in Recovery from Substance Use Disorder.Journal of child and family studies · 2024Article
- Therapeutic Alliance and Group Cohesion Across Telehealth Delivery of Mentalizing-focused Parenting Groups.International journal of group psychotherapy · 2024Article
- Parental substance use and home visiting programs: Implementation considerations for relationship-based treatment.Infant mental health journal · 2023Article
- Training home visitors in mentalization-based practice: A qualitative case study of clinical supervision in mothering from the inside out.Infant mental health journal · 2023Article
- Therapeutic work to enhance parental mentalizing for parents with ACEs to support their children's mental health: A theoretical and clinical review.Frontiers in child and adolescent psychiatry · 2023Review
- Connection During COVID-19: Pilot Study of a Telehealth Group Parenting Intervention.American journal of psychotherapy · 2022Article
- Prenatal Reflective Functioning as a Predictor of Substance-Using Mothers' Treatment Outcome: Comparing Results From Two Different RF Measures.Frontiers in psychology · 2022Article
- Mediation-Moderation Links Between Mothers' ACEs, Mothers' and Children's Psychopathology Symptoms, and Maternal Mentalization During COVID-19.Frontiers in psychiatry · 2022Article
- Mothering from the Inside Out: Addressing the Intersection of Addiction, Adversity, and Attachment with Evidence-Based Parenting Intervention.Current addiction reports · 2021Review
- Trauma in childhood and adolescence and impaired executive functions are associated with uncertain reflective functioning in mothers with substance use disorder.Addictive behaviors reports · 2020Article
- Mothering from the Inside Out: Adapting an evidence-based intervention for high-risk mothers in the Western Cape of South Africa.Development and psychopathology · 2020Article
- IMPLEMENTATION OF AN EVIDENCED-BASED PARENTING PROGRAM IN A COMMUNITY MENTAL HEALTH SETTING.Infant mental health journal · 2018Article
- Mothering from the Inside Out: A mentalization-based therapy for mothers in treatment for drug addiction.International journal of birth and parent education · 2016Article
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Abstract
Mothers who are involved with mental health services (for themselves or their children) rarely receive adequate support for their role as parents. Mental illness in a parent or child often exacerbates the challenges of managing psychological distress that is germane to the parenting roll. Mentalization-based approaches to psychotherapy for parents have the potential to address challenges of emotional regulation in parents by supporting their capacity to recognize and modulate negative affect during stressful parenting situations. In this study, we piloted Mothering from the Inside Out (MIO) with 17 mothers receiving services at a community-based mental health clinic. MIO is a 12-week, mentalization-based parenting intervention that demonstrated efficacy in two previous randomized controlled trials with substance using mothers. In this study, we were interested in determining whether community-based clinicians could deliver MIO with sustained fidelity. We were also interested in examining the preliminary feasibility, acceptability and efficacy of MIO when delivered by clinicians in a community mental health center. Finally, we were interested in replicating prior tests of the proposed treatment mechanisms. Treatment outcomes included maternal reflective functioning, psychiatric and parenting stress, and mother-child interaction quality. Our findings indicated that MIO was feasible and acceptable when delivered in the community-based setting and that all maternal indices improved. However, no improvement in mother-child interaction quality was found, possibly because of insufficient time for these changes to consolidate.
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