Publications by authors named "Lia Closson"
Article Synopsis
- Emotional availability (EA) refers to the emotional connection between parents and their unborn babies, assessed during pregnancy through caregiver sensitivity and nonhostility.
- A new intervention called the "EA-Based Dance Intervention" was developed to help pregnant individuals engage emotionally with their babies through dance and movement.
- In a pilot study, participants in the dance intervention reported lower anxiety and depressive symptoms, and higher prenatal EA compared to a control group that received no intervention.
The goal of this study was to determine the extent to which a brief parenting intervention provided the context for helping families to support positive mother-child interactions as well as more optimal mother and child outcomes. Participants in this study were middle income mothers and their children were between 0-3 years of age (N = 25 dyads). Participants were filmed via Skype during a 20-minute mother-child free play and completed questionnaires (Time 1) before attending the brief intervention (involving: a single session of one-on-one parent feedback and coaching, and information via group meeting, texts, and reading) followed by a repeat of the 20-minute Skype interaction and the completion of the same questionnaires (Time 2).
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