AUTHOR=Dozio Elisabetta , Feldman Marion , Bizouerne Cécile , Drain Elise , Laroche Joubert Mathilde , Mansouri Malika , Moro Marie Rose , Ouss Lisa TITLE=The Transgenerational Transmission of Trauma: The Effects of Maternal PTSD in Mother-Infant Interactions JOURNAL=Frontiers in Psychiatry VOLUME=11 YEAR=2020 URL=https://www.frontiersin.org/journals/psychiatry/articles/10.3389/fpsyt.2020.480690 DOI=10.3389/fpsyt.2020.480690 ISSN=1664-0640 ABSTRACT=
The objective of the study was to examine the process of mother to infant trauma transmission among traumatized mothers in humanitarian contexts. We investigated the impact of mothers' post-traumatic stress disorder symptoms on the quality of the dyadic interaction by conducting a microanalysis of mother-infant interactions at specific moments when trauma was recalled, compared to more neutral moments. Twenty-four mother-infant dyadic interactions of traumatized mothers and children aged from 1.5 to 30 months Central Africa, Chad, and Cameroon were videotaped during three sequences: a neutral initial session (baseline) exploring mothers' representations of the infant and of their bonding; a second sequence, “the traumatic narration,” in which mothers were asked to talk about the difficult events they had experienced; and a third sequence focusing on a neutral subject. Three minutes of each sequence were coded through a specific grid for microanalysis [based on the scales developed at Bobigny Faculty of Medicine and the work of (