ArticlePsychological trauma : theory, research, practice and policy2022
Intergenerational transmission of risk for PTSD symptoms in African American children: The roles of maternal and child emotion dysregulation.
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- Systematic review and meta-analysis: do best-evidenced trauma-focused interventions for children and young people with PTSD lead to changes in social and interpersonal domains?European journal of psychotraumatology · 2024Pooled it
- Emotional Dysregulation in Children and Adolescents With Psychiatric Disorders. A Narrative Review.Frontiers in psychiatry · 2021Pooled it
- Dialectical behavior therapy skills training for African American pregnant women with ACEs: a pilot study of feasibility, acceptability, and mental health barriers and attitudes.European journal of psychotraumatology · 2025Trial
- PTSD and CPTSD amongst parents subject to child protection court proceedings: observed rates and associated demographic and clinical covariates.European journal of psychotraumatology · 2026Observational
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- The vulnerable role of empathy in children who live in conflict zones.European journal of psychotraumatology · 2025Article
- Smaller hippocampal volume is associated with anxiety symptoms in high-risk Black youth.Journal of mood and anxiety disorders · 2024Article
- The Impact of Maternal Interpersonal Violent Trauma and Related Psychopathology on Child Outcomes and Intergenerational Transmission.Current psychiatry reports · 2024Review
- Through a Developmental Lens: Emerging Insights to Understand and Treat Pediatric PTSD.The American journal of psychiatry · 2023Review
- The Contagion of Psychopathology across Different Psychiatric Disorders: A Comparative Theoretical Analysis.Brain sciences · 2021Article
- Posttraumatic Stress Disorder and the Developing Adolescent Brain.Biological psychiatry · 2021Review
- Debate: Exposing the most serious infirmity - racism's impact on health in the era of COVID-19.Child and adolescent mental health · 2020Article
- The Transgenerational Transmission of Trauma: The Effects of Maternal PTSD in Mother-Infant Interactions.Frontiers in psychiatry · 2020Article
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objectiveEmotion dysregulation is a transdiagnostic risk factor for many mental health disorders and develops in the context of early trauma exposure. Research suggests intergenerational risk associated with trauma exposure and posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD), such that maternal trauma experiences and related symptoms can negatively impact child outcomes across development. The goals of the present study were to examine child and mother correlates of child PTSD symptoms and the unique roles of child and maternal emotion dysregulation in understanding child PTSD symptoms.
methodSubjects included 105 African American mother-child dyads from an urban hospital serving primarily low-income minority individuals.
resultsCorrelational results showed that child trauma exposure, child emotion dysregulation, maternal depressive symptoms, maternal emotion dysregulation, and potential for maternal child abuse all were significantly associated with child PTSD symptoms (
conclusionsThese results suggest that maternal emotion dysregulation may be an important factor in influencing their child's PTSD symptoms above and beyond child-specific variables. Both maternal and child emotion dysregulation could be valuable treatment targets for improving maternal mental health and parenting behaviors and bolstering child health outcomes, thus reducing intergenerational transmission of risk associated with trauma. (PsycInfo Database Record (c) 2022 APA, all rights reserved).
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