OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The median citation count of Infant Mental Health Journal is 1. The table below lists those papers that are above that threshold based on CrossRef citation counts [max. 250 papers]. The publications cover those that have been published in the past four years, i.e., from 2021-04-01 to 2025-04-01.)

Article	Citations
Holding up the mirror: The role of teacher educators and syllabi in perpetuating or disrupting inequity	71
Do toys get in the way? The duration of shared emotional experiences is longer when mothers engage their infants without toys	23
Infant massage as a stress management technique for parents of hospitalized extremely preterm infants	23
Randomized controlled trial of a prenatal focused coparenting consultation for unmarried black fathers and mothers: One‐year infant and family outcomes	23
Efficacy of a peer‐based in‐home education program in improving social‐emotional outcomes of parents and children	23
Parental substance use and home visiting programs: Implementation considerations for relationship‐based treatment	21
Newborn behavioral observations system in rural Pakistan: A feasibility and acceptability study	17
Reframing caring for parents who struggle with substance‐use disorders	17
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Spillover effects on the relationship with the partner of a mentalization‐based intervention for pregnant women	15
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The impact of COVID‐19 on the continuum of integrated perinatal, infant, and early childhood behavioral health services	14
Development and validation of a goal attainment scale for families affected by maternal substance use	13
Maternal‐fetal attachment, parenting stress during infancy, and child outcomes at age 3 years	13
Parenting the parent without losing sight of the child. A qualitative study of therapists’ experiences with intergenerational adversities in perinatal psychotherapy	13
Exploring resting frontal EEG and reflective functioning in maternal substance use	12
Parent–Child Relationship Scale (P‐CRS): A valid and clinically sensitive tool for assessing the parent‐child relationship	12
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Is participation in antenatal classes associated with fathers' mental health? A quasi‐experimental and prospective study	12
Examining the relationship between parents’ self‐reported mindfulness and observed language use in attachment‐relevant communication	12
Father‐child bonding among Japanese fathers of infants: A municipal‐based study at the time of the 4‐month child health checkup	11
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Infant mental health integration into OB care leads to increased connection to services during the perinatal period	10
Experiences of childbirth care among mothers in Lithuania during COVID‐19	10

Adverse childhood experiences and maternal self‐efficacy: Examining the mediating role of intimate partner violence and the moderating role of caste membership in rural India	9
Patterns of proximity and maternal‐infant engagement in a neonatal intensive care unit	9
An exploration of parenting styles, cultural values, and infant development in a sample of Latin American immigrants in Canada	8
Professional quality of life in home visitors: Core components of the reflective supervisory relationship and IMH‐E^® Endorsement^® engagement	8
Mothers’ psychopathology symptoms and mindful parenting in the postpartum period: The role of parental reflective functioning	8
Measuring the depth of reflection in reflective supervision/consultation sessions: Initial validation of the Reflective Interaction Observation Scale (RIOS)	8
From the voices of supervisees: What is reflective supervision and how does it support their work? (Part I)	8
Reflective supervision and reflective practice in infant mental health: A scoping review of a diverse body of literature	8
The parental reflective functioning questionnaire: Infant version in fathers of infants and association with paternal postpartum mental health	7
The association of infant temperament and maternal sensitivity in preterm and full‐term infants	7
The role of mothers’ self‐compassion on mother–infant bonding during the COVID‐19 pandemic: A longitudinal study exploring the mediating role of mindful parenting and parenting stress in the postpartu	7
The undertold story: A leadership program to expand recognition of the importance of early childhood experiences	7
Transaction of parental cognition, stress and depressive symptoms, and infant regulatory challenges	7
Two babies, two bonds: Frequency and correlates of differential maternal‐infant bonding in mothers of twins	7
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Parental Reflective Functioning on the Parent Development Interview: A narrative review of measurement, association, and future directions	7
Bringing a mentalizing framework to understanding mothers with addiction: The groundbreaking work of Nancy E. Suchman	7
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Enlisting toddler cooperation through structure and autonomy support: The amplifying role of suboptimal relationship mutuality	6
Training home visitors in mentalization‐based practice: A qualitative case study of clinical supervision in mothering from the inside out	6
Pregnancy intendedness, maternal–fetal bonding, and postnatal maternal–infant bonding	6
Maternal mental health and infant neurodevelopment at 6 months in a low‐income South African cohort	6
Differences in infant negative affectivity during the COVID‐19 pandemic	6
What factors influence dyadic synchrony? A systematic review of the literature on predictors of mother–infant dyadic processes of shared behavior and affect	6
Fathers’ experiences of fetal attachment: A qualitative study	6
Maternal depressive symptoms, poverty, and young motherhood increase the odds of early depressive and anxiety disorders for children born prematurely	6
Transitions to virtual early childhood home visitation during COVID‐19	6
Adapting psychophysiological data collection for COVID‐19: The “Virtual Assessment” model	5
Associations between maternal smartphone use and mother‐infant responsiveness: A cluster analysis of potential risk and protective factors	5
Reflective supervision and consultation and its impact within early childhood‐serving programs: A systematic review	5
DC: 0–5 system in clinical assessment with specialty pediatric populations	5
Predicting attachment in Portuguese infants born very or extremely preterm: Understanding the roles of infant regulatory behavior, maternal sensitivity, and risk factors	5
Transitioning to virtual interaction during the COVID‐19 pandemic: Impact on the Family Connects postpartum home visiting program activity	5
Household chaos and parenting: The effect of household chaos does not depend on sensory‐processing sensitivity and self‐regulation	5
Risk factors associated with higher scores in internalizing and externalizing behaviors in Chilean preschoolers	5
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Enhancing early parenting in the community: Preliminary results from a learning collaborative approach to scale up Attachment and Biobehavioral Catch‐up	5
Is lower fetal heart rate variability a susceptibility marker to the impact of negative coparenting on infant regulatory capacity?	5
“There's more love between us”: The parental experience of attending Mellow Babies, a targeted, early intervention program for parents and their babies	5
Using the candidacy framework to conceptualize systems and gaps when developing infant mental health (IMH) services: A qualitative study	5
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Disrupted maternal communication and disorganized attachment in the Arab society in Israel	4
Differences between men and women accessing an Australian perinatal and infant mental health care navigation service—Why do fathers seek help?	4
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Maternal self‐efficacy development from pregnancy to 3 months after birth	4
The impact of a mother–infant intervention on parenting and infant response to challenge: A pilot randomized controlled trial with adolescent mothers in El Salvador	4
Evaluation of the Pregnancy to Parenthood program: A dyadic intervention for mothers with perinatal mental disorders and their infants	4
Associations between mothers’ emotion regulation and real‐time experiences of negative emotion: The moderating role of caregiving context	4
Development of a tool for infant facial emotion recognition (InFER) for postpartum mothers with mental illnesses	4

Art at the Start: A controlled trial and close observation of parent‐infant art therapy intervention	4
Dual trajectories of parenting self‐efficacy and depressive symptoms in new, postpartum mothers and socioemotional adjustment in early childhood: A growth mixture model	4
An explanatory model of parental sensitivity in the mother–father–infant triad	4
The role of experience in parenting beliefs of British and Italian women during pregnancy	3
Childcare providers’ views of challenging child behaviors, suspension, and expulsion: A qualitative analysis	3
Supporting positive parenting among pregnant people in recovery from opioid use disorder: Introducing family check‐up–prenatal	3
Our way of being: Infant and Early Childhood Mental Health workforce development in Tennessee	3
Bridging attachment theory and interpersonal acceptance‐rejection theory in the strange situation procedure in a low‐risk sample in Egypt	3
Family risk and early attachment development: The differential role of parental sensitivity	3
The prenatal caregiving expectations questionnaire‐revised version: Factor structure, internal consistency, and initial construct validity	3
Infants of mothers with early remitted clinical depression and mothers with no postpartum depression: Adaptive functioning in the second year of life	3
Mental health and sleep quality of low‐income mothers of one‐year‐olds during the COVID‐19 pandemic	3
Telehealth adaptation of perinatal mental health mother–infant group programming for the COVID‐19 pandemic	3
Early relational health: Innovations in child health for promotion, screening, and research	3
Validation of parental stress scale in a Greek sample of mothers with infants from 0 to 12 months	3
The HEADS‐ED under 6: Piloting a new communimetric mental health and developmental screening and triage tool for young children	3
The emotional tone of child descriptions during pregnancy is associated with later parenting	3
Parental mentalization across cultures: Mind‐mindedness and parental reflective functioning in British and South Korean mothers	3
A decolonial perspective on Indigenous infant and early childhood mental health: Reclaiming Indigenous ways for the next seven generations	2
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Parent and practitioner perspectives on Circle of Security Parenting (COS‐P): A qualitative study	2
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Home visitor perspectives on implementing a precision approach to home visiting in communities serving Native American families	2
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Relationship focused mother–infant groups: Preliminary evaluation of improvements in maternal mental health, parenting confidence, and parental reflective functioning	2
Caregivers’ positive emotion socialization tendencies are associated with positive affect in preschool age children	2
Baby steps of parenting: Turkish adaptation of Infancy Parenting Styles Questionnaire and mother‐ and infant‐related characteristics affecting parenting in infancy	2
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Reflections on the Infant Mental Health Endorsement^® process in Virginia	2
Increased behavioral health needs and continued psychosocial stress among children with medical complexity and their families during the COVID‐19 pandemic	2
Supporting early infant relationships and reducing maternal distress with the Newborn Behavioral Observations: A randomized controlled effectiveness trial	2
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Transitioning to telehealth due to COVID‐19: Maintaining model fidelity in a home visiting program for parents of vulnerable infants	2
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Low‐income fathers are emotionally resilient: A qualitative exploration of paternal emotions across early parenting	1
Actively changing the narrative: An exploration of culturally grounded parenting and social skills	1
Mothering from the Inside Out: Results of a community‐based randomized efficacy trial testing a mentalization‐based parenting intervention for mothers with addictions	1
Young mothers’ prenatal attachment and later attachment‐related representations of their young children	1
Child‐focused infant and early childhood mental health consultation: Shifting adult attributions to reduce the risk for preschool expulsion	1
Parental sensitivity and family conversation: A naturalistic longitudinal study with both mothers and fathers across three time‐points in early infancy	1
Patient navigation models for mental health of parents expecting or caring for an infant or young child: A systematic review	1
Testing reliability and validity of practitioner‐rated parental sensitivity: A novel tool for practice	1
Savoring interventions for mothers of young children: Mechanisms linking relational savoring and personal savoring to reflective functioning	1
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Birth, breastfeeding, psychological flexibility and self‐compassion as predictors of mother–infant emotional availability in a cross‐sectional study	1
Enhancing parental reflective functioning: A special tribute to the life and work of Nancy E. Suchman, PhD	1
Scaling up Attachment and Biobehavioral Catch‐up with Latine families: Implementation processes and effectiveness	1
ISSUE INFORMATION	1
An invited commentary on mentoring in infant mental health: A symposium commemorating Robert N. Emde	1
Offline and online parental mentalizing in mothers with symptoms of postpartum depression: Examining the association between self‐reported parental reflective functioning and interactional mind‐minded	1
Safe haven in adolescence: Improving parental reflective functioning and youth attachment and mental health with the Connecting and Reflecting Experience	1
Multimodal assessments of preterm temperament across the first year of life: Continuity, stability, and moderation by country of origin and infant age	1
Evaluating the use of the AMBIANCE‐Brief measure in clinical settings: Assessing acceptability, feasibility, and utility of the AMBIANCE‐Brief	1
Enhancing maternal sensitivity in contexts of urban extreme poverty in Sierra Leone: A pilot study	1
Serotonin transporter gene methylation and emotional regulation in preschool children born preterm: A longitudinal evaluation of the role of negative emotionality in infancy	1
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Development of coparenting during the transition to parenthood: Integrating parents’ representations with observed interactions	1
Caregiver stress and cultural identity in families of preschoolers with developmental delay and behavioral problems	1
Call to action: Centering blackness and disrupting systemic racism in infant mental health research and academic publishing	1
Possibilities and power during early Head Start Home visits: Comparing family‐ and home visitor‐opened decision‐making	1
Early relational health – A promising approach for equitable systems change in pediatrics: A commentary	1
Framing the work: A coparenting model for guiding infant mental health engagement with families	1
Associations between parenting representations and behavior among young mothers and mothers with opioid use disorder	1
Prepartum and postpartum mothers’ and fathers’ feelings of frustration in response to infant crying	1
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Dyadic parent–infant interaction patterns at 12 months: Exploring dyadic parent–infant gender compositions	1
Preventing early harsh parenting and toddler behavior problems: The role of neighborhood collective efficacy among low‐income Latine families	1
Updating the evidence: A systematic review of a decade of Infant and Early Childhood Mental Health Consultation (IECMHC) research	1
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Clinical use and implementation of the diagnostic classification of mental health and developmental disorders of infancy and early childhood	1
Parenting stress and competence among mothers of young children with substance use disorders: The roles of trauma and reflective functioning	1
Building reflective capacity and improving well‐being of early childhood professionals through an embedded cross‐system model of infant early childhood mental health consultation	1
The development of the Promoting First Relationships home visiting program and caregivers’ comments about their experiences across four RCT studies	1