Open Class The Effects of Prenatal Intimate Partner Violence on Mothers and Children
Taking place within the scope of the PhD in Clinical Psychology, Cognitive-Behavioral Guidance.
Program
October 26, at 6:00 pm, Master Class, with Professor Alytia Levendosky, (Department of Psychology, Michigan State University)
Title: The Effects of Prenatal Intimate Partner Violence on Mothers and Children: Mechanisms and Treatment Implications
This presentation will present a comprehensive model for understanding the effects of prenatal Intimate Partner Violence on mothers and children. This model proposes three mechanistic pathways through which IPV may have both unique and common effects for stressors on mothers and children. The common pathways for stressors include the effects of pregnancy IPV on maternal mental health, and the effects of IPV on maternal physiological stress response systems; both of these pathways converging to dysregulate the physiological stress responsibility of the fetus/infant. The unique pathway is through IPV’s effects on maternal representations developed during pregnancy, that are the cognitive/affective schemas that the mother develops about her parenting of her unborn child. Evidence from extant research and a conceptual understanding of the proposed mechanistic pathways in this model will be presented. Finally, prevention and intervention implications and evidence-based treatments that address the mechanisms in the proposed pathways will be described
