Maria Beatriz Martins Linhares

University of São Paulo | USP · Ribeirão Preto School of Medicine (FMRP)

The present study examined the effectiveness of a personalized remote video feedback parenting program to improve mother-child interactions and child behavior outcomes among mothers of children with behavior problems in comparison to counterparts with no behavior problems. The sample comprised 60 mothers and their 2-to-6-year-old children, includin...

A prematuridade pode alterar a regulação dos processos fisiológicos, emocionais e comportamentais, levando a alterações no desenvolvimento das funções executivas. O estudo teve por objetivo caracterizar a função executiva de crianças nascidas pré-termo na fase pré-escolar. A amostra incluiu 23 crianças nascidas pré-termo de cinco a seis anos. A fun...

Objectives The present study examined parental sleep-supporting practices during toddlerhood in relation to temperament across 14 cultures. We hypothesized that passive sleep-supporting techniques (e.g., talking, cuddling), but not active techniques (e.g., walking, doing an activity together), would be associated with less challenging temperament p...

Adverse childhood experiences (ACEs) can negatively impact physical, emotional, cognitive, and social development, consequently affecting the next generation. The aim of the present study was to systematically review evidence from empirical studies on the association between maternal history of adversity in childhood (maltreatment and household dys...

Violence against children is a significant problem, particularly during early childhood development. Spanking and other forms of corporal punishment in child-rearing have been used by families worldwide to correct children’s unwanted behaviors. Despite previous studies focusing on the negative consequences of these parental practices, open question...

This study aimed to examine the feasibility and acceptability of the online version of the ACT-Raising Safe Kids Parenting Program, and the effect of improving parenting practices in the coronavirus pandemic context. The sample comprised 20 mothers of two-to-six-year-old children. The mothers answered the ACT, PAFAS, and PSOC scales in the pre- and...

Introduction Early parent-child relationships shape children’s future. Child development and parent-child interactions are multidetermined, and the combination of biological risks and social disadvantages can further compromise both outcomes. Interventions that promote responsive parenting may mitigate the risks for child development. We examined t...

Studies on preterm infants usually exclude high-risk neonatal infants with neurological problems. However, it is important to study high-risk preterm infants to better understand later developmental problems. Therefore, this cross-sectional study aimed to compare the cognitive, motor, language, and social-emotional development of high-risk preterm...

The randomized controlled trial examined the efficacy of a personalized remote video feedback parenting program to improve parenting and child behavior outcomes. Ninety-two mothers of 2-6-year-old children were randomly allocated into the intervention group (n = 50) and waiting-list control group (n = 42). The Strengthening Bonds preventive program...

Adverse childhood experiences negatively impact future violence, victimization, perpetration, health, and lifelong development. The aim of the present study was to systematically review the scientific evidence of empirical studies on the association between maternal childhood adversity in a familial context, including maltreatment, household challe...

This study advances the cross-cultural temperament literature by comparing temperament ratings of toddlers from 14 nations. Multilevel modeling (MLM) procedures were utilized to regress negative emotionality (NE) and component subscales on Hofstede’s cultural value dimensions while controlling for age and gender. More individualistic values were as...

This paper presents a systematic review of the impact of preterm childbirth on the later executive functioning of preschool-aged children. A systematic search for studies published between 2014 and 2019 was performed using the following keywords: executive funct* AND preterm AND child. The methodological quality of the reports was examined using th...

Child maltreatment is a severe worldwide public health problem because of its negative consequences and should therefore be prevented through parenting programs to improve parental behavior and practices. The present review aimed to update a published review of 5 years of empirical studies on universal parenting programs to strengthen positive pare...

Objective The present study aimed to examine the predictive effect of temperament moderated by preterm childbirth on behavioral problems in toddlerhood. Method The sample comprised 100 toddlers of 18–36 months of chronological age and their mothers. They were divided into two groups: 50 toddlers born preterm and admitted to the Neonatal Intensive...

Television exposure in early childhood has increased, with concerns raised regarding adverse effects on social-emotional development, and emerging self-regulation in particular. The present study addressed television exposure (i.e., amount of time watching TV) and its associations with toddler behavioral/emotional dysregulation, examining potential...

This study examined the theory of change of the ACT Raising Safe Kids parenting program, including whether intervention effects on children's behavior problems were explained by improvements in mothers' reported parenting practices, as well as whether baseline child behavior problems moderated these relations. Adult mothers of 3-to 8-year-old Brazi...

The present study aimed to evaluate the effectiveness of a universal parenting program of violence prevention against children to improve the parenting practices in groups of mothers differentiated by the presence or not of a history of adverse childhood experiences. The study also aimed to characterize the types of violence experienced by the part...

Parent training programmes have significant potential to improve the quality of children's early environments and thereby their development and life-course outcomes. The aim of this study was to identify and explain the extent to which parents engaged in two group-based training programmes, offered to high-risk families enrolled in a randomized con...

The present meta-analytic study was conducted to examine differences in temperament between preterm and full-term children, considering behavior style and psychobiological approaches. Moreover, we explored the potential moderators of the associations between prematurity and temperament. A systematic literature search was performed on PubMed, Scopus...

Relato de Experiência sobre realização de treinamento de Facilitadores do Programa ACT - Para Educar Crianças em Ambientes Seguros, na cidade de Pelotas - Rio Grande do Sul.

Preterm infants constitute a high-risk population for presenting emotional and behavioral problems and developmental dysregulation. Parenting preventive interventions can support mothers to act as co-regulators and prevent child behavior problems. The ACT – Raising Safe Kids Program is recommended to strengthen positive parenting practices. The pre...

Background Preterm childbirth increases the risk of developmental problems. The aim of the present study was to examine the effects of temperament and attention on the cognition of school-age children who were born preterm, controlling for socioeconomic variables. Material and Methods The sample was composed of 50 six-year-old children who were bo...

Background: Motor development occurs throughout periods of motor skills' acquisition, adjustment and variability. The objectives of this study were analyzed and compare biological and health characteristics and motor skill acquisitions' trajectories of preterm and full-term infants during the first year of life. Methods: 2,579 infants (1361 pret...

Objective: The present study aimed to examine the predictor effects of neonatal, sociodemographic characteristics, and temperament assessed at 18-36 months of age on behavioral problems in 4- to 5-year-old children born preterm. Methods: The sample comprised 70 children born preterm. The amount and the intensity of stress procedures during a sta...

Child development depends on the interrelationships between biological, psychological, and social factors. However, several risk factors and adversities could threaten the typical child development. At-risk children and micro-system families with adverse psychosocial events should be targeted in investigations about child development, aiming to pro...

Personalized Share Link Available until April 26, 2019 : https://authors.elsevier.com/a/1Yh0yh~JITJQv The present study evaluated the efficacy of the ACT Raising Safe Kids Parenting Program for improving parenting practices and reducing child behavior problems. Mothers of children aged 3 to 8 years were randomly allocated into the intervention (IG...

This study examines the association between perceptions of primary caregivers (parent-report) and children (self-report) on their quality of life (QoL) at pre-school age. We also aimed to analyze the health, sociodemographic, and developmental predictors that better explain their QoL. The study comprised 83 healthy children, who attended public kin...

Objective: To compare the neurobehavioral development of preterm infants with postconceptional age between 32 and 36 weeks and 6 days, according to the adequacy of the weight for the gestational age at birth. Methods: A cross-sectional study was performed comparing two independent groups. The 55 preterm infants who were included in the sample we...

Introduction: The motor trajectory of pre-term children is an important indicator of health during infancy, since alterations may be a signal for the need of professional intervention. Objective: To describe percentiles and motor development curves for Brazilian preterm infants in the first year of life, determining the reference values for categor...

ABSTRACT: The child's motor development is the result of biological influences as well as the physical and social environments and living. This interaction can encourage or limit the motor skills. The aim was to investigate the influence of cultural and socioeconomic differences of two Brazilian regions have on the motor development of infants pret...

The aim of the present study was to perform a systematic review of the impact of developmental care approaches on indicators of stress in preterm neonates who were admitted to the neonatal intensive care unit (NICU). Twenty-two studies were identified in the PubMed, Web of Science, PsycINFO, and SciELO databases using the keywords “preterm neonates...

Purpose: to identify the main health risk factors of infants participating in a follow-up program. Methods: a longitudinal prospective study conducted with 540 high-risk infants observed in the follow-up clinic of the Hospital Materno Infantil in Goiânia in the State of Goiás, Brazil. All biological data of the infants from birth, prenatal, and po...

The present cross-sectional study aims to examine the relations between socioeconomic status (SES), parenting practices, and child internalizing and externalizing behavior problems in Brazil. To achieve this aim, we begin by examining the factor structure of a parenting scale (the ACT scale) for use in the Brazilian context. Participants were 204 B...

Development is characterized by quantitative and qualitative changes that occur in a predetermined sequence. However, development could be affected by adversities, which change its typical course. The present study aimed to carry out a review of the concept of toxic stress, used in the Shonkoff’s Ecobiodevelopmental Theory, and to analyze its impac...

Background: Preterm infants (PI) requiring the Neonatal Intensive Care Unit (NICU) are exposed to early repetitive pain/distress. Little is known about how pain relief strategies interact with infants'clinical health status, such as severity of illness with pain responses. This study aimed to examine main and interactive effects of routine sucrose...

The main aim of the present study was to examine differences in behavioral problems in toddlers born very preterm in Brazil and Italy. The sample comprised 154 toddlers (18-24 months of age) born very preterm, including 76 toddlers from Brazil and 78 toddlers from Italy. The Child Behavior Checklist was used to assess behavioral problems. Specific...

O Capítulo apresenta o relato da experiência de um projeto de extensão que objetivou promover o desenvolvimento de crianças de zero a 8 anos, a partir da intervenção preventiva com mães e profissionais da saúde e educação, orientada para práticas educativas parentais e prevenção de violência. Os resultados demonstraram que as mães relataram melhora...

Introduction: Preterm infants are vulnerable to developmental delays. Detecting problems at an early age is one of the challenges of professionals and researchers in the area.Objectives: To analyse the motor development and to identify the risk factors associated with predictors of overall and motor delay in preterm newborns.Methods: Eighty preterm...

According to the World Health Organization and the International Association for the Study of Pain, pain is a relevant worldwide problem in the healthcare field. The present study aimed to describe the definition of pediatric pain and the main characteristics, and to examine the findings regarding the impact of pain on the development of the child....

Effects of the ACT Raising Safe Kids program on parents and children in Portugal, Brazil and Japan, as well as with parents in prison. Link to the presentation: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rUqLYF9uthE Convention Program: http://www.apa.org/convention/program-search.aspx

O objetivo do estudo foi caracterizar as variáveis socioeconômicas e psicossociais de crianças que frequentam creches públicas e avaliar a influência destes fatores no desenvolvimento neuropsicomotor. Realizou-se um estudo analítico-observacional transversal com 61 crianças, de ambos os sexos, com idade de quatro a seis anos, frequentadoras das cre...

The aim of the present study was to systematically review the recent literature about pain and distress outcomes in children and critically analyze the methodological quality of the reports. The systematic review was based on the PRISMA statement and performed by selecting articles that are indexed in scientific databases. The methodological qualit...

Objective: The aim of this study was to compare temperament and behavior profiles among groups of preterm toddlers differentiated by level of prematurity and the presence of bronchopulmonary dysplasia (BPD) or retinopathy of prematurity (ROP), controlling for neonatal clinical conditions and chronological age. Method: The sample comprised 100 prete...

This prospective longitudinal study examined prediction models of quality of life (QoL) in preterm-born individuals at preschool age by considering predictors factors from the neonatal phase (clinical, socioeconomic, and neurobehavioral variables), the first year (developmental variables), and preschool age (clinical, socioeconomic, developmental,...

Efavirenz (EFV) is an effective antiretroviral drug with a favorable pharmacokinetic profile and widely used in combination regimens to treat HIV infection. However, there are major concerns about the safety of this drug. Patients treated with EFV often experience neuropsychiatric adverse effects, which frequently lead to switching to alternative E...

The study aimed to translate, back-translate to the Portuguese-Brazil language and cross-culturally adapt the content of OSBD scale for the evaluation of distress in painful contexts in children. In first step, two forward translations were made of the instrument from English to Portuguese. A consensus of these translations was obtained in second s...

Children born preterm are at risk for later developmental disorders. The present study examined the predictive effects of neonatal, sociodemographic, and temperament characteristics on behavioral outcomes at toddlerhood, in children born preterm. The sample included 100 toddlers born preterm and with very-low-birth-weight, and their mothers. Neonat...

The present study evaluated the effectiveness of the Adults and Children Together (ACT) Raising Safe Kids Parenting Program for violence prevention in a developing country. The specific objectives were the following: (i) to compare parenting practices according to the mothers' perceptions pre- and post-intervention and (ii) to compare child behavio...

Objectives To examine the maternal verbal content on children's challenging behaviors in the context of a universal prevention, parenting program, in order to identify which are the children's challenging behaviors and how mothers behave when facing such behaviors. Methods and Procedures The study sample included 91 mothers of 3-to-8-year-old child...

Introduction and objective: Parenting programs are considered an effective strategy to prevent child maltreatment. Few studies have evaluated the efficacy of these programs in developing countries. The present randomized-controlled trial aimed to evaluate the efficacy of the universal prevention parenting program Adults and Children Together Raisin...

Purpose: To review the existing literature regarding factors associated with quality of life (QoL) of individuals who were born preterm. The review focuses on assessment approaches and information sources. Methods: A systematic review of empirical studies published in PubMed, PsycARTICLES, PsycINFO, LILACS, and SciELO databases between 2007 and...

O objetivo do estudo foi revisar artigos sobre prevalência do uso de álcool e/ou drogas ilícitas em gestantes, perfis das usuárias e efeitos do seu uso na saúde e desenvolvimento dos filhos. Os estudos foram selecionados na base de dados Scielo a partir de palavras-chave específicas e critérios de inclusão e exclusão. Foram encontrados 14 artigos....

Background: Pain is a stressful experience that can have a negative impact on child development. The aim of this crossover study was to examine the efficacy of audiovisual distraction for acute pain relief in paediatric inpatients. Method: The sample comprised 40 inpatients (6-11 years) who underwent painful puncture procedures. The participants...

Children born preterm are more prone to present behavior problems and temperament with poor self-regulation, in comparison to full-term counterparts (Cosentino-Rocha, Klein & Linhares, 2014). The relationships between behavior problems and temperament are well established in the literature (Gartstein, Putnam & Rothbart, 2012); however few studies h...

Temperament indicators integrate the regulatory development processes which are relevant to better understand the behavior problems (Rothbart & Bates, 2006). Children born preterm with very low birth presented more risk for behavioral problems than children born full-term (Arpi & Ferrari, 2013; Clark, Woodward, Horwood, & Moor, 2008). Concerning th...

Preterm birth can impact on child development. As seen previously, children born preterm present more behavioral and/or emotional problems than do full-term counterparts. In addition to gestational age, neonatal clinical status should be examined to better understand the differential impact of premature birth on later developmental outcomes. The ai...

The present study aimed to review recent literature on universal violence and child maltreatment prevention programs for parents. The following databases were used: Web of Science, PsycINFO, PsycARTICLES, PubMed, LILACS, and SciELO. The keywords included the following: (Parenting Program or Parent Training or Parent Intervention) and (Maltreatment...

Introduction: Children born very preterm display altered pain thresholds. Little is known about neonatal clinical and psychosocial factors associated with their later pain perception. Objective: We aimed to examine whether the number of neonatal invasive procedures, adjusted for other clinical and psychosocial factors, was associated with self-r...

This article describes motor development in infancy and early childhood, especially highlighting the major motor skills in the first year of a child's life. The continuing development of motor skills in children means the acquisition of independence and the ability to adapt to the physical and social environment. Motor skills in posture horizontal,...

The National Association of Research and Postgraduate Studies in Psychology (ANPEPP) promotes exchange among researchers to develop and consolidate lines of research, through the discussion of action strategies and decisions that impact Brazilian scientific policy. Themes such as postgraduate research training, national production and the internati...

Introduction: the preterm birth is a risk factor for child developmental and behavioral problems. Objective: to examine whether neonatal clinical characteristics of infants born preterm, as well as temperament assessed in toddlerhood, predict behavior problems during the preschool years. Methods: twenty-one children born preterm with very low birth...

O estudo teve por objetivo comparar as práticas educativas de mães que participaram da intervenção com o Programa ACT – Para Educar Crianças em Ambientes Seguros, e as dificuldades do comportamento da criança, de acordo com a percepção da mãe e de outro cuidador, nos momentos pré-intervenção e pós-intervenção. O estudo foi realizado em espaços educ...

Background: Neonatal Intensive Care Units (NICUs) protect preterm infants; otherwise, this is a stressful environment including painful stimuli. Aims: To compare early neurobehavioral development prior to term-age in preterm infants at 34-36weeks of post-conceptional age in different gestational ages, and to examine the effects of prematurity le...

Objective: To compare the global and motor development of infants born preterm, regarding the performance in the chronological age and corrected age for prematurity. Methods: This is a crosssectional study. The sample was comprised of 182 preterm infants (< 37 weeks of gestational age) and low birth weight (< 2,500 grams) belonging to the following...

The aim of the study was examine the predictor effects of the infant`s neonatal characteristics, the cumulative stress-related experiences in Neonatal Intensive Care Unit (NICU), and the temperament on behavior of toddlers born preterm. The sample comprised 55 toddlers at 18-36 months of age. At toddlerhood, the mothers were interviewed using the E...

The present study aimed to examine the associations between pain experiences in children with respect to selfperceptions and mother perceptions and stress indicators. The study sample included 30 hospitalized children of 6-12 years of age and the children’s mothers. The Faces Scale-Revised, Child Stress Scale, and Inventory of Stress Symptoms for A...

A autorregulação é um processo básico relacionado aos desfechos adaptativos ao longo do desenvolvimento. O objetivo do presente artigo foi realizar uma revisão temática sobre o conceito de autorregulação e suas relações com o desenvolvimento da criança. Primeiramente, foram abordados os fundamentos teóricos sobre o processo de autorregularão no des...

Este estudo teve por objetivo elaborar e testar um modelo combinado de avaliação do temperamento de crianças, diferenciadas pela idade gestacional, e do comportamento em interação com suas mães. A amostra incluiu 10 crianças, sendo cinco nascidas a termo e cinco nascidas pré-termo, com idade entre 18 a 36 meses, e suas respectivas mães. A coleta de...

Background: Neonates cared for in neonatal intensive care units are exposed to many painful and stressful procedures that, cumulatively, could impact later neurodevelopmental outcomes. However, a systematic analysis of these effects is yet to be reported. Objectives: The aim of this research was to review empirical studies examining the associat...

The present study characterized the opinions of health professionals about strategies for assessing and managing pediatric pain in a public teaching hospital. The sample consisted of 92 health professionals who worked in pediatric wards, pediatric intensive care, and neonatal intensive care. The sample included 45 doctors, 18 nurses, 16 psychologis...

Children born preterm are more prone to having behavior problems in comparison to children born full-term (Klein, Rocha, Martinez, Putnam & Linhares, 2013). However, few are known about the differences at behavior among children born preterm. On one hand, children born extremely preterm presented more behavior problems than children born moderate p...

O texto discute aspectos em políticas de internacionalização da pesquisa e da formação pós-graduada no atual contexto da Psicologia no Brasil. Indicadores de oito áreas de conhecimento para aferir o nível de internacionalização dos programas de pós-graduação, utilizados no processo avaliativo conduzido pela Capes, são apresentados para embasar esta...