APS

31st APS Annual Convention · 2019

Risk and Resilience in 9/11 Pregnant Widows and Their Infants at One Year

Washington, DC · May 2019

Poster · Developmental

  • Beatrice Beebe
    Clinical Professor of Psychology in Psychiatry, Columbia University
  • Sanghan Lee
    New York State Psychiatric Institute, Columbia University, Medical Center
  • Robert DelGaudio
    New York State Psychiatric Institute, Columbia University, Medical Center
  • Emily Hersch
    New York State Psychiatric Institute, Columbia University, Medical Center
  • Elliana Sherwin
    New York State Psychiatric Institute, Columbia University, Medical Center
  • Lily Abrahams
    New York State Psychiatric Institute, Columbia University, Medical Center
  • Sevgi Carney
    New York State Psychiatric Institute, Columbia University, Medical Center
  • Abigail Davis
    New York State Psychiatric Institute, Columbia University, Medical Center
  • Cassandra Malouta
    New York State Psychiatric Institute, Columbia University, Medical Center
  • Yasemin Kahya
    New York State Psychiatric Institute, Columbia University, Medical Center
  • Yasemin Kahya
    Hacettepe University, Social Sciences University of Ankara
  • Amarelis Raudales
    New York State Psychiatric Institute, Columbia University, Medical Center
  • Miranda Roman
    New York State Psychiatric Institute, Columbia University, Medical Center
  • Natasha Yamane
    New York State Psychiatric Institute, Columbia University, Medical Center
  • Ariyan Bowman
    New York State Psychiatric Institute, Columbia University, Medical Center
  • Rachel Ende
    New York State Psychiatric Institute, Columbia University, Medical Center

Abstract

Face-to-face interactions of mothers pregnant+widowed on 9/11 and their one-year infants were videotaped/coded (1s time-base). Compared to controls, 9/11 mothers were more depressed+anxious; their infants were more distressed: risk factors. 9/11 mothers were more sensitive to infant distress, refraining from intrusion into-the-face when infants were distressed, a resilience factor.

Risk/Resilience

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