Prenatal Family Dynamics

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This book examines family interactions and relationships during the transition to parenthood. It offers a unique integration of different lines of research on prenatal family dynamics contributed by leading family researchers in North America and Europe who use observational approaches to study emergent family processes. The book explores prenatal dynamics in diverse families, including adolescent couples, same-sex couples, couples experiencing infertility, and couples expecting their second child. 
The introduction, anchored in family systems and structural theories, provides an overview of challenges couples commonly experience during the transition to parenthood and details prenatal family processes that predict postpartum adjustment in families. This sets the stage for subsequent chapters by emphasizing unparalleled windows into prenatal family dynamics provided by direct observation. Initial chapters focus on predictors of prenatal interactions and partners’ representations of parenthood. Subsequent chapters describe original research on prebirth couple interactions and the coparenting relationship emerging during pregnancy. The volume includes several studies that rely on innovative research designs using observations of simulated couple encounters with their newborn, represented by a life-sized infant doll. The book concludes with a review of recent prenatal intervention programs designed to improve interpersonal and coparenting relationships of married and unmarried couples. The volume offers recommendations for future research on prenatal family dynamics, including suggestions for methodological advances, exploration of prenatal risk factors, expansion of conceptual models to incorporate culturally-meaningful coparents besides mothers and fathers, and further focus on prenatal intervention programs. This book is an essential resource for researchers, clinicians and professionals, and graduate students in the fields of infant mental health/early child development, family studies, pediatrics, developmental psychology, public health, social work, and early childhood education.
Examines family interactions and relationships during transition to parenthood Synthesizes research on prenatal family dynamics using observational approaches to study emergent family processes Explores prenatal experiences in diverse families (e.g., adolescent couples, same-sex couples, couples experiencing infertility) Discusses prenatal intervention programs to improve interpersonal and coparenting relationships of married and unmarried couples

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Regina Kuersten-Hogan

Themen in »Prenatal Family Dynamics«

Coparenting and child cognitive development and attachment Coparenting dynamics, marriage, couples, coparenting Coparenting relationships and marital interaction Dyadic parent-child, couple, and triadic family interactions Ethnic and economic diversity and coparenting Family and couple interventions Gender-role orientation and coparenting relationships Infant siblings and developmental transitions Maternal attachment, depression, and child outcomes Maternal representations and interactions during pregnancy Partners to Parents Project Paternal representations and interactions during pregnancy Postpartum family dynamics and first-time parents Pregnancy, prebirth, and family dynamics Prenatal family processes and marital relationships

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