Evaluating the impact of sling provision and training upon maternal mental health, wellbeing and parenting: A randomised feasibility trial.

Background: Close body contact interventions such as Kangaroo Mother Care have been shown to improve maternal mental health following birth. Infant carriers ('slings') facilitate hands-free close body contact. No studies have specifically examined whether sling use improves maternal mental health.

A feasibility and pilot additive randomised control trial of attachment security priming during behavioural activation.

Background: There is some initial evidence that attachment security priming may be useful for promoting engagement in therapy and improving clinical outcomes.

Aims: This study sought to assess whether outcomes for behavioural activation delivered in routine care could be enhanced via the addition of attachment security priming.

Method: This was a pragmatic two-arm feasibility and pilot additive randomised control trial.

Toward a causal link between attachment styles and mental health during the COVID-19 pandemic.

Background: Recent research has shown that insecure attachment, especially attachment anxiety, is associated with poor mental health outcomes, especially during the COVID-19 pandemic. Other research suggests that insecure attachment may be linked to nonadherence to social distancing behaviours during the pandemic.

Aims: The present study aims to examine the causal links between attachment styles (secure, anxious, avoidant), mental health outcomes (depression, anxiety, loneliness) and adherence to social distancing behaviours during the first several months of the UK lockdown (between April and August 2020).

Facets of Mindfulness Mediate the Relationship Between Attachment Orientation and Emotion Regulation in University Students.

Whilst both mindfulness and adult attachment have been linked to wellbeing, little is known about how these constructs relate to emotion regulation that can underpin wellbeing. The present study examined the association between adult attachment orientation and emotion regulation (strategies and difficulties) and the mediating role of facets of dispositional mindfulness. A sample of 301 university students (M = 23.

Constraints to liberty of movement and attachment styles significantly account for well-being in three Palestinian samples.

Background: Political violence and constraints on liberty of movement can have consequences for health and well-being but affect individuals differently.

Objective: In three Palestinian samples, we sought to examine the relationship between key environmental and psychological factors and general and mental health, including the previously unexplored roles of constraints to liberty of movement and attachment orientation.

Method: Participants ( = 519) in the Occupied Palestinian Territories and Jordan completed questionnaires on constraints to liberty of movement, attachment insecurity, resource loss, experience of political violence , demographics, general healthdepression, and anxiety.