Parenting Journal · Volume 2 · Issue 4 · Licensed source edition
Context processing as a moderator of the association between posttraumatic stress symptoms and the adaptation of maternal sensitivity following stress related to separation
Originally published 2026-11-01 · Infant Mental Health Journal
Wiley · DOI 10.1002/imhj.70121 ↗
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How might a caregiver adapt to a toddler's signals when the situation changes?
The authors examine contextual shifts in sensitive responding alongside mothers' trauma-related symptoms.
Who was studied?
Mothers and toddlers studied in Switzerland
Age / stage: Toddlerhood
Read with three questions
- How might a caregiver adapt to a toddler's signals when the situation changes?
- Whose observations or reports were used, and what competing explanations are compatible with them?
- Which features of the study population (mothers and toddlers studied in Switzerland) would matter when applying the findings in another setting?
Keep the limits in view
The Swiss sample included 31 mother-toddler pairs. A brief observation of responding when context changes provides a limited view of caregiving following trauma.
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Shannen Graf; Lara Detoledo; Sophie Wood; Dominik A Moser; Sébastien Urben; Daniel S Schechter (2026). Context processing as a moderator of the association between posttraumatic stress symptoms and the adaptation of maternal sensitivity following stress related to separation Infant Mental Health Journal. https://doi.org/10.1002/imhj.70121
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