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The study aims to explore the links between parental psychiatric symptoms, parental reflective functioning, and child emotional and behavioral difficulties.

June 28, 2026Early Intervention in PsychiatryOpen Access

Parental Psychiatric Symptoms and Child Emotional and Behavioural Difficulties: Exploring the Mediating Role of Parental Reflective Functioning in Parents With Mental Disorders

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AKA J KaasUniversity of Copenhagen OPO PépinUniversity of Copenhagen SSSebastian SimonsenUniversity of Copenhagen

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Randomized trial examines parental psychiatric symptoms and their impact on child behaviour, highlighting reflective functioning's role.

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The study aims to explore the links between parental psychiatric symptoms, parental reflective functioning, and child emotional and behavioral difficulties.
Involved parents with various diagnosed mental disorders (N = 70) with children aged 0-17.
Assessed psychiatric symptom severity using the Brief Symptom Inventory and reflective functioning using the Parental Reflective Functioning Questionnaire.
Used linear regressions and Hayes PROCESS macro for analysis.
Parental psychiatric symptom severity was significantly related to higher levels of child emotional and behavioural difficulties.
Maladaptive PRF correlated with parental psychiatric symptoms, increasing pre-mentalizing levels, which were linked to child difficulties.
PRF did not mediate the relationship between parental psychiatric symptoms and child difficulties.

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Kaas et al. (2026) studied this question.

synapsesocial.com/papers/6a40bb1461bb0a67205c6b76 https://doi.org/10.1111/eip.70208

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