Substance Use and Prenatal Care and Child Development

Through a Mother’s Eyes: Sources of Bias When Mothers with Co-Occurring Disorders Assess Their Children.

In this article, the authors state that mothers are the principal informants on children’s emotional and behavioral functioning. Maternal assessments of child functioning can be influenced by a mother’s own psychological state. The magnitude and valence of distortion in maternal assessments associated with current maternal mental health and substance abuse symptoms were explored in a clinical MORE →