Parental mentalizing—recognizing that children are separate psychological entities, who
have their own thoughts, wishes, and intentions that motivate their behaviors—is traditionally
considered a verbal, linguistic capacity. This paper aimed to examine the relation between
parental verbal mentalizing (parental reflective function; PRF) and its nonverbal form—
parental embodied mentalizing (PEM)—and how both constructs contribute to parents'
subjective experience of parenting, namely parental stress and coparental alliance. 68 …