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Maternal Prenatal Attachment: An Early Intergenerational Intervention for Child Psychiatry

Year: 2023

Type: article

Abstract: Pregnancy is a time of dynamic physiological and psychological changes that prepare the maternal milieu for fetal development and consequently prepare women for motherhood. Psychological changes may include beginning to identify as a mother and establishing feelings of increasing emotional investment and preoccupation with the unborn child.1 While John Bowlby’s original theory of human attachment emphasized the child’s attachment to their mother,2 the mother’s emotional attachment to the child is equally important to recognize and may begin before birth.3 Maternal attachment toward her unborn child has been termed maternal prenatal attachment.

Source: JAACAP Connect

DOI: 10.62414/001c.92191

Authors: Lucy Gao, Soudabeh Givrad, Helena J.V. Rutherford

Institutions: Yale University, Weill Cornell Medicine

Language: English

Topic: Maternal Mental Health During Pregnancy and Postpartum

Subfield: Public Health, Environmental and Occupational Health

Field: Medicine

Domain: Health Sciences

SDG: Good health and well-being

Open Access status: hybrid

OpenAlex ID: W4391873904