Parents’ depression can be linked to children’s emotional difficulties https://www.nationalelfservice.net/?p=170663

Lisa Lloyd and Derek Tracy summarise a new paper in the BJPsych, which focuses on parental depression symptoms in both mothers and fathers, and how they are linked with emotional difficulties in their children.

#Depression #Parenting #PerinatalDepression #PostnatalDepression #Mothers #Fathers #InfantMentalHealth #EmotionalDifficulties #BJPsych #ALSPAC #NetworkAnalysis

Howdy Mastodon peeps.
An etiquette question for you.
I’m giving some training in Infant Mental Health next week, and I usually tweet the other speakers.
Is that a “thing” on mastodon?
Realise I may be talking into the abyss....

#InfantMentalHealth #Conferences #psychology #MentalHealth

Lovely write up of a very clever study of speech development and infant parent interactions.
Parents talk more to infants who initiate the conversation. Babies lead. Watching and responding to their cues is critical for development.

#InfantMentalHealth #language #infancy

https://cosmosmagazine.com/people/parents-talk-babies/