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1-116 - When Emotions run High and Deep: Adverse Experiences, Parent-Child Interactions, and Emotion Dialogue

Thu, March 19, 2:10 to 3:40pm, Penn CC, Floor: 100 Level, Room 107B

Session Type: Poster Symposium

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Growing up in a high-conflict family, experiencing maltreatment, and being placed from a perhaps dangerous but familiar family to a foster or adoptive home may exceed tolerance levels of developing emotion regulation systems. At the same time, the parent-child relationship in these contexts may buffer distress, and support children in dealing constructively with their feelings. The contributions in this symposium share a focus on dyadic processes as key to understanding the divergent developmental pathways of these high-risk children. From this shared perspective, the various researchers have pursued related but distinct concepts and models. The goal of this symposium is to stimulate discussion and identify insights that are shared and unique. The first presentation examines the associations between mothers’ attachment representations, quality of the relationship with the child, and child behavior problems in foster families. The second presentation examines mind-mindedness as a relational construct and compares mind-mindedness in a sample of adoptive and birth families. The third presentation compares the quality of mother-child emotional dialogues in a sample of maltreated children to a normative sample, linked to child adjustment and maternal posttraumatic stress. The fourth presentation examines the relation between parents’ meta-emotion philosophy and parenting behavior in a sample of mothers and children exposed to interparental violence. The final presentation examines how behavioral and emotional aspects of parent-child interaction and –dialogue may explain differences in children’s adjustment problems in children exposed to interparental violence. An internationally well-known researcher in the field of parent-child interaction in high-risk samples will serve as discussant.

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