Angela N. Maupin’s research while affiliated with Yale University and other places

... Linkages between men's neural changes across the transition to fatherhood, fathering experience, and responses to child signals need further research. Research on mothers suggests that neural responses to infant affective cues are modulated by parity (Maupin et al., 2019) and that primiparous mothers, as compared to multiparous mothers, show heightened alertness toward such cues (Bunderson et al., 2020;Maupin et al., 2016) and rate them as higher in arousal (Parsons et al., 2021). Similar studies on fathers could help us shed light on potential differences between first-time and experienced fathers' reactions toward child signals. ...

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Men’s Empathy Toward Children’s Emotions Across the Transition to Fatherhood

... Early motherhood can be a complex time to study substance use treatment because mothers face significant treatment barriers such as fear of child apprehension, stigma, lack of sleep, partner conflict, and low social support [4]. Mothers with a SUD report parenting difficulties [5,6], struggling to provide their child with nurturing environments [7], and difficulty responding effectively to their child's needs [8]. Children of mothers with a SUD are also more likely to experience maltreatment and abuse relative to controls, with juvenile court data from the United States suggesting 43% of serious child abuse or neglect occurred in households with a parent who had substance use problems [9,10]. ...

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Psychological Treatment for Substance Use Disorder in Mothers of Young Children: A Scoping Review of Maternal Substance Use and Child Mental Health Outcomes

... However, Rutherford et al. (2019) found that heightened allocation of attention in first-time mothers may not be specific for infant faces, but directed to all visual stimuli, signaling a general state of alertness in primiparous mothers. Moreover, none of the aforementioned studies included non-parents as a control group. ...

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Associations Between Parity and Parasympathetic Regulation in Response to Infant Cry

... Linkages between men's neural changes across the transition to fatherhood, fathering experience, and responses to child signals need further research. Research on mothers suggests that neural responses to infant affective cues are modulated by parity (Maupin et al., 2019) and that primiparous mothers, as compared to multiparous mothers, show heightened alertness toward such cues (Bunderson et al., 2020;Maupin et al., 2016) and rate them as higher in arousal (Parsons et al., 2021). Similar studies on fathers could help us shed light on potential differences between first-time and experienced fathers' reactions toward child signals. ...

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Men’s Empathy Toward Children’s Emotions Across the Transition to Fatherhood

... Previous research show that there are challenges in introducing and using, both COS-VF and the original group model, in mental health and social services (Hoffman et al., 2006;Nielsen et al., 2020). One study also indicated that even with the supposedly "simplest" of the COS models (i.e., COS-P), it can be difficult to use the intervention in its entirety as intended (Maupin et al., 2017). Currently, there are few studies, with some notable exceptions such as Maupin and colleagues (2017), that have systematically investigated aspects of attachmentbased interventions, which may have important consequences for their uptake, use, and implementation in practice. ...

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Implementing complex attachment-based interventions: Perspectives on the Circle of Security-Virginia Family intervention

... Generally, it has been demonstrated that infant faces elicit larger amplitudes, at both early (N170) and later (P300/LPP) stages of face processing, than adult faces (Kuzava et al., 2020;Vuoriainen et al., 2022). In particular, while distressed infant faces elicited a larger N170 response in some studies (Proverbio et al., 2006;Rodrigo et al., 2011;Doi & Shinohara, 2012;Peltola et al., 2014;Dudek & Haley, 2020), other research failed to find such an effect on the N170 amplitude (Malak et al., 2015;Maupin et al., 2019;Rutherford, Byrne, et al., 2017;Rutherford, Maupin, et al., 2017a). Differently, a larger P300/LPP amplitude was found in response to personally significant faces, like own child's faces (Bick et al., 2013;Grasso et al., 2009;Weisman et al., 2012), own child's faces with crying expressions (Doi & Shinohara, 2012), and romantic partners' faces (Guerra et al., 2012). ...

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EEG responses to infant faces in young adults can be influenced by the quality of early care experiences with caregivers

... Linkages between men's neural changes across the transition to fatherhood, fathering experience, and responses to child signals need further research. Research on mothers suggests that neural responses to infant affective cues are modulated by parity (Maupin et al., 2019) and that primiparous mothers, as compared to multiparous mothers, show heightened alertness toward such cues (Bunderson et al., 2020;Maupin et al., 2016) and rate them as higher in arousal (Parsons et al., 2021). Similar studies on fathers could help us shed light on potential differences between first-time and experienced fathers' reactions toward child signals. ...

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Men’s Empathy Toward Children’s Emotions Across the Transition to Fatherhood

... Given the prevalence of young children experiencing SEB concerns and the impact of these concerns on lifelong learning, behavior, and health, a multi-level equity-centered intervention like infant and early childhood mental health consultation (IECMHC) is an underutilized support [19,45,46]. This multi-level intervention is delivered by mental health consultants trained in early childhood development and the core principles of infant and early childhood mental health consultation (IECMHC). ...

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Advancing Mental Health and Equity Through Infant and Early Childhood Mental Health Consultation

... Several theories of parenting (e.g., evolutionary, social information processing; Ainsworth et al., 1978;Fuths et al., 2017;Leckman et al., 2004;Rutherford et al., 2017) highlight the importance of infant facial expressions for informing caregiving behavior. Infant distress expressions are thought to be salient given their survival function of signaling threat and illness while positive infant expressions are thought to have evolved to elicit social responding (Bowlby, 1969;Swain et al., 2004). ...

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The Significance of Mothers’ Neural Responding to Infant Emotional Cues for Caregiving Behaviors: The Moderating Role of Infant Temperamental Distress

... Outcomes. NSST validity rests on the assumption that children's produced narratives represent some dimension of the child's real-life psychological, emotional, and social functioning and the caregiving environment (Kelly & Bailey, 2021), either directly or mediated by attachment (e.g., Martoccio et al., 2016). The strongest evidence for convergent validity comes from measures of personal and social functioning, including self-evaluations, popularity/leadership, peer relations, and inhibitory control and aggression (at 2 years), as found in Koreans (Shin, 2019), Puerto Ricans (Gullón-Rivera, 2013), Mexicans, Peruvians (Nóblega et al., 2019), and a diverse US sample (Grey & Yates, 2014). ...

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Are narrative story stem methods valid in “non-Western” contexts? A systematic review