Background Assessment of mother-child interactions is a core issue of early child
development and psychopathology. This paper focuses on the concept of “synchrony” and …

This chapter reviews the evidence pertaining to indirect influences first and is parsed into six
domains, including studies of attachment, childrearing styles and parent–child interactions …

Despite the fact that most people become parents and everyone who has ever lived has had
parents, parenting remains a mystifying subject about which almost everyone has opinions …

Objective. The goal of the present investigation was to provide a meta-analytic review of the
research on affect and parenting in nonclinical samples. Design. The authors conducted …

The study of interpersonal synchrony examines how interacting individuals grow to have
similar behavior, cognition, and emotion in time. Many of the established methods of …

The authors examined the longitudinal effects of the Family Check-Up (FCU) on parents'
positive behavior support and children's school readiness competencies in early childhood …

Dyadic behavioral synchrony is a complex interactional process that takes place between
the mother and her infant. In the first year of life, when the infant is prelinguistic, processes …

There is a gap between scientific knowledge about typical and atypical emotional
development and efforts to identify and serve children's mental health needs. The gap can …

How infants shape their own development has puzzled developmentalists for decades.
Recent models suggest that infant dispositions, particularly negative reactivity and …

In individual psychotherapy verbal communication and movement synchronization are
closely interrelated. The microanalysis of timing, rhythm and gestalt of movement has …