The role of parental mentalizing in early parenthood: Associations with parent and child psychological functioning KU Leuven
Parental mentalizing is an umbrella term that is used to refer to various research traditions that focus on the purported role of caregivers’ capacity to envision their child as motivated by inner mental states. One of these research traditions, which originated in research on the role of attachment and reflective functioning, emphasizes the capacity for parental reflective functioning (PRF) in child development. PRF refers to the capacity of ...