Sara Dominguez

Paris Nanterre University | UPX · Laboratoire d'Ethologie et Cognition Comparées (LECC EA 3456)

Based on knowledge of child development, this exploratory study focuses on the quality of touch during the care of babies in early childhood facilities. It also examines the place given to affect in the interaction between professionals and children.

Résumé But de l’étude Dès ses premières heures de vie, le nouveau-né sourit d’une manière comparable, sur un plan morphologique, à celle des enfants plus âgés. Pour autant, le sourire néonatal a longtemps été qualifié de sourire endogène, ne lui accordant implicitement aucune valeur sociale. L’objectif de cette recherche exploratoire est de questi...

In the present chapter, we propose an overview of the most widely used tools dedicated to the assessment of early parent-infant interactions during the first year of life. This review does not aim at being totally comprehensive. Its purpose is to offer a reflection on how observation and assessment of parent-infant interaction can both inform and b...

Mothers suffering from borderline conditions are overwhelmed by emotions. Their interactions are tainted with qualitative discontinuities, unpredictable for infants. These high-risk situations must not be trivialised. They are characterised by the importance of providing rapid support to the baby and by the existence of maternal suffering. The infa...

Objective: Over the course of the last decades, the content and prosodic characteristics of infant directed speech have been extensively studied. However, little research has focused on the content of mothers' speech to newborn infants. In the present study, we wish to analyze the content of the mothers' speech when they address their newborn infan...

Human newborns are cognitively and socially competent. Although they are sensitive to the presence of a social partner, little is known on the emergence of the ability to partake in social interaction. In this study we aimed to explore the roots of turn-taking in the neonatal period. We wished to highlight the way mothers' and newborns' vocalizatio...

The main aim of this study was to ascertain whether infants as young as 3 months of age, whose mothers suffer from borderline personality disorder (BPD), are already at risk of greater dysregulation than infants of mothers without BPD when faced with a minor stressful experience. Nineteen mothers diagnosed with BPD and 41 controls with no history o...

This paper investigates the particularities of vocal communication between mothers who suffer from Borderline Personality Disorder (BPD) and their young infants. One of the characteristic signs of BPD is a marked difficulty in sustaining long-term interpersonal relationships. Social interactions between mothers with BPD and their 3-month-old infant...

Follow-up of a borderline and depressed mother with her infant : looking at the interaction with both eyes of research and clinics This paper describes the clinical observation of a mother who suffers from borderline personality disorder and depression and that of her infant. They have been in mother-infant psychotherapy from the infant’s birth to...

This study presents an ecological experiment investigating 6-month-olds' social engagement. Results show that infants look and smile more at a socially attending distant partner than at an inattentive partner and that their looking and smiling behavior is different when the inattentive partner is their mother.