Abstract

Interpersonal violent trauma (IVT) during childhood has been associated with chronic difficulty in emotion regulation, juvenile and adult-onset of posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD), comorbid affective disorder, suicide attempts and violent behavior. What happens when IVT-exposed women with PTSD (IVT-PTSD) must deal with the stresses of motherhood? Little is known about how IVT-PTSD might affect maternal behavior and physiology in the presence of her young child ( A second aim i s to characterize differences in maternal physiologic response to separation stress using the same comparison groups: a) cases vs. controls, and b) cases before and after intervention. The training program focuses on 3 essential areas: trauma studies, psychophysiology, parent-infant assessment and treatment, with mentorship by leading researchers in each of these areas, and relevant didactic coursework.

  Funding Agency

Agency
National Institute of Health (NIH)
Institute
National Institute of Mental Health (NIMH)
Type
Mentored Patient-Oriented Research Career Development Award (K23)
Project #
5K23MH068405-05
Application #
7275363
Study Section
Risk, Prevention and Health Behavior Integrated Review Group (RPHB)
Program Officer
Avenevoli, Shelli A
Project Start
2003-09-01
Project End
2008-08-31
Budget Start
2007-09-01
Budget End
2008-08-31
Support Year
5
Fiscal Year
2007
Total Cost
$176,666
Indirect Cost

  Institution

Name
Columbia University (N.Y.)
Department
Psychiatry
Type
Schools of Medicine
DUNS #
621889815
City
New York
State
NY
Country
United States
Zip Code
10032

  Publications

Schechter, Daniel S; Moser, Dominik A; Reliford, Aaron et al. (2015) Negative and distorted attributions towards child, self, and primary attachment figure among posttraumatically stressed mothers: what changes with Clinician Assisted Videofeedback Exposure Sessions (CAVES). Child Psychiatry Hum Dev 46:10-20
Schechter, Daniel S; Moser, Dominik A; McCaw, Jaime E et al. (2014) Autonomic functioning in mothers with interpersonal violence-related posttraumatic stress disorder in response to separation-reunion. Dev Psychobiol 56:748-60
Moser, Dominik Andreas; Aue, Tatjana; Wang, Zhishun et al. (2013) Limbic brain responses in mothers with post-traumatic stress disorder and comorbid dissociation to video clips of their children. Stress 16:493-502
Schechter, Daniel S; Gross, Anna; Willheim, Erica et al. (2009) Is maternal PTSD associated with greater exposure of very young children to violent media? J Trauma Stress 22:658-62
Schechter, Daniel S; Willheim, Erica (2009) Disturbances of attachment and parental psychopathology in early childhood. Child Adolesc Psychiatr Clin N Am 18:665-86
Schechter, Daniel S; Coates, Susan W; Kaminer, Tammy et al. (2008) Distorted maternal mental representations and atypical behavior in a clinical sample of violence-exposed mothers and their toddlers. J Trauma Dissociation 9:123-47
Schechter, Daniel S; Zygmunt, Annette; Trabka, Kimberly A et al. (2007) Child mental representations of attachment when mothers are traumatized: The relationship of family-drawings to story-stem completion. J Early Child Infant Psychol 3:119-141
Schechter, Daniel S; Zygmunt, Annette; Coates, Susan W et al. (2007) Caregiver traumatization adversely impacts young children's mental representations on the MacArthur Story Stem Battery. Attach Hum Dev 9:187-205
Schechter, Daniel S; Myers, Michael M; Brunelli, Susan A et al. (2006) Traumatized mothers can change their minds about their toddlers: Understanding how a novel use of videofeedback supports positive change of maternal attributions. Infant Ment Health J 27:429-447
Schechter, Daniel S; Coots, Tammy; Zeanah, Charles H et al. (2005) Maternal mental representations of the child in an inner-city clinical sample: violence-related posttraumatic stress and reflective functioning. Attach Hum Dev 7:313-31