Maternal shared pleasure, infant withdrawal, and developmental outcomes in a high risk setting in South Africa
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Date
2021
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frontiers in Psychiatry
Abstract
Infants in lower middle income countries are often exposed to early adversities which may lead to suboptimal caregiving environments and place them at risk of not achieving their developmental potential. Synchrony and positive engagement in the mother-infant relationship plays a critical role in buffering the impact of early adversity. Shared Pleasure (SP) is considered a marker of high intensity positive interaction and may hold a promise of improving developmental outcomes.
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shared pleasure, infant withdrawal, positive interactions, mother infant interaction, infant development, synchrony
Citation
Lachman A, Burger M, Jordaan ER, Leppanen J, Puura K and Niehaus DJH (2021) maternal shared Pleasure, infant withdrawal, and developmental outcomes in a high risk setting in South Africa. Front. Psychiatry 12:668009. doi: 10.3389/fpsyt.2021.668009