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ReviewDevelopment and psychopathology2024

Caregiving relationships are a cornerstone of developmental psychopathology.

Kathryn L Humphreys, Julia Garon-Bissonnette, Kaylin E Hill, Lauren G Bailes, Whitney Barnett, Megan M Hare

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Review in Development and psychopathology, 2024. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 14 papers, 2 of them syntheses that pooled it.

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1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

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2 · The registry

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3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

14 citing papers in PubMed, 2 syntheses or guidelines pooled it.

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  5. Parental Stress and Caregiver Role Modulate Child-Caregiver Prosodic Synchrony in Autism: A Computational Analysis.Autism research : official journal of the International Society for Autism Research · 2026
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  6. Interparental processes mitigating risk for psychological aggression during the COVID-19 pandemic.Journal of family psychology : JFP : journal of the Division of Family Psychology of the American Psychological Association (Division 43) · 2026
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4 · The record

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

6 authors.

Kathryn L HumphreysDepartment of Psychology and Human Development, Vanderbilt University, Nashville, TN, USA.ORCID https://orcid.org/0000-0002-5715-6597
Julia Garon-BissonnetteDepartment of Psychology and Human Development, Vanderbilt University, Nashville, TN, USA.ORCID https://orcid.org/0000-0003-0674-2462
Kaylin E HillDepartment of Psychology and Human Development, Vanderbilt University, Nashville, TN, USA.ORCID https://orcid.org/0000-0002-2755-5327
Lauren G BailesDepartment of Psychology and Human Development, Vanderbilt University, Nashville, TN, USA.ORCID https://orcid.org/0000-0002-0790-1771
Whitney BarnettDepartment of Psychology and Human Development, Vanderbilt University, Nashville, TN, USA.ORCID https://orcid.org/0000-0001-5082-7864
Megan M HareDepartment of Psychology and Human Development, Vanderbilt University, Nashville, TN, USA.ORCID https://orcid.org/0000-0001-5111-5287

Funding

LIFE-SPAN DEVELOPMENT OF NORMAL AND ABNORMAL BEHAVIORT32MH018921 · NIMH · VANDERBILT UNIVERSITY · PI HUMPHREYS, KATHRYN LEIGH · 1989 to 2024
$6.7M
Parent-child proximity and emerging psychopathologyR01MH129634 · NIMH · VANDERBILT UNIVERSITY · PI Kathryn Leigh Humphreys · 2022 to 2026
$3.9M
Neurobehavioral markers of positive valence systems in mothers with depression and young offspringK23MH131753 · NIMH · VANDERBILT UNIVERSITY · PI Kaylin Estell Hill · 2023 to 2026
$744k
NIMH NIH HHS K23 MH131753NIMH NIH HHS R01 MH129634NIMH NIH HHS T32 MH018921
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

The interdisciplinary field of developmental psychopathology has made great strides by including context into theoretical and empirical approaches to studying risk and resilience. Perhaps no context is more important to the developing child than their relationships with their caregivers (typically a child's parents), as caregivers are a key source of stimulation and nurturance to young children. Coupled with the high degree of brain plasticity in the earliest years of life, these caregiving relationships have an immense influence on shaping behavioral outcomes relevant to developmental psychopathology. In this article, we discuss three areas within caregiving relationships: (1) caregiver-child interactions in everyday, naturalistic settings; (2) caregivers' social cognitions about their child; and (3) caregivers' broader social and cultural context. For each area, we provide an overview of its significance to the field, identify existing knowledge gaps, and offer potential approaches for bridging these gaps to foster growth in the field. Lastly, given that one value of a scientific discipline is its ability to produce research useful in guiding real-world decisions related to policy and practice, we encourage developmental psychopathology to consider that a focus on caregiving, a modifiable target, supports this mission.

Indexed as

CaregiversChild DevelopmentParent-Child RelationsChildHumansPsychopathologySocial Cognitioncaregiver contextcaregiver social cognitionCaregivingeveryday interactions

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PMID38389283
PMCPMC11341779

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