Resolving trauma: The unique contribution of trauma-specific mentalization to maternal insightfulness / Nicolas BERTHELOT in Development and Psychopathology, 37-3 (August 2025)  

Public ISBD [article]  inDevelopment and Psychopathology > 37-3 (August 2025) . - p.1280-1293 Titre : Resolving trauma: The unique contribution of trauma-specific mentalization to maternal insightfulness Type de document : Texte imprimé et/ou numérique Auteurs : Nicolas BERTHELOT, Auteur ; Julia Garon-Bissonnette, Auteur ; Maria MUZIK, Auteur ; Valerie SIMON, Auteur ; Rena MENKE, Auteur ; Ann Michele STACKS, Auteur ; Katherine Lisa ROSENBLUM, Auteur Article en page(s) : p.1280-1293 Langues : Anglais (eng) Mots-clés : maltreatment  parenting  reflective functioning  trauma processing  trauma resolution Index. décimale : PER Périodiques Résumé : Resolving trauma may contribute to mental health and parenting in mother with histories of childhood maltreatment. The concept of trauma-specific reflective functioning (T-RF) was developed to assess the complexity of thought processes regarding trauma. The study aimed to validate the T-RF scale applied to the Trauma Meaning-Making Interview by examining its psychometric properties, associations with measures of trauma-processing strategies, maternal reflective functioning and mental health (depression and post-traumatic stress disorder [PTSD]), as well as evaluating whether T-RF offered a unique contribution to maternal insightfulness. Good construct validity of the T-RF scale was confirmed in a sample of 112 mothers with histories of childhood maltreatment using an independent coding system of trauma-processing. Better mentalization of trauma was prospectively associated with higher parental reflective functioning and mothers with high T-RF were much more likely to be insightful regarding the child?s mental states than non-reflective mothers and mothers with limited T-RF. The association between T-RF and insightfulness was observed even when controlling for maternal reflective functioning, trauma-processing strategies, maternal education and sociodemographic risk. T-RF was associated neither with depression, PTSD nor the characteristics of trauma. Findings suggest that mentalizing trauma would be an important protective factor in the intergenerational trajectories of trauma. En ligne : https://www.cambridge.org/core/product/D9CB4EF677A11EA3F768D55E17ADA7E6 Permalink : https://www.cra-rhone-alpes.org/cid/opac_css/index.php?lvl=notice_display&id=564 [article] Resolving trauma: The unique contribution of trauma-specific mentalization to maternal insightfulness [Texte imprimé et/ou numérique] / Nicolas BERTHELOT, Auteur ; Julia Garon-Bissonnette, Auteur ; Maria MUZIK, Auteur ; Valerie SIMON, Auteur ; Rena MENKE, Auteur ; Ann Michele STACKS, Auteur ; Katherine Lisa ROSENBLUM, Auteur . - p.1280-1293. Langues : Anglais (eng) in Development and Psychopathology > 37-3 (August 2025) . - p.1280-1293 Mots-clés : maltreatment  parenting  reflective functioning  trauma processing  trauma resolution Index. décimale : PER Périodiques Résumé : Resolving trauma may contribute to mental health and parenting in mother with histories of childhood maltreatment. The concept of trauma-specific reflective functioning (T-RF) was developed to assess the complexity of thought processes regarding trauma. The study aimed to validate the T-RF scale applied to the Trauma Meaning-Making Interview by examining its psychometric properties, associations with measures of trauma-processing strategies, maternal reflective functioning and mental health (depression and post-traumatic stress disorder [PTSD]), as well as evaluating whether T-RF offered a unique contribution to maternal insightfulness. Good construct validity of the T-RF scale was confirmed in a sample of 112 mothers with histories of childhood maltreatment using an independent coding system of trauma-processing. Better mentalization of trauma was prospectively associated with higher parental reflective functioning and mothers with high T-RF were much more likely to be insightful regarding the child?s mental states than non-reflective mothers and mothers with limited T-RF. The association between T-RF and insightfulness was observed even when controlling for maternal reflective functioning, trauma-processing strategies, maternal education and sociodemographic risk. T-RF was associated neither with depression, PTSD nor the characteristics of trauma. Findings suggest that mentalizing trauma would be an important protective factor in the intergenerational trajectories of trauma. En ligne : https://www.cambridge.org/core/product/D9CB4EF677A11EA3F768D55E17ADA7E6 Permalink : https://www.cra-rhone-alpes.org/cid/opac_css/index.php?lvl=notice_display&id=564

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