The influences of drug abuse on mother-infant interaction through the lens of the biopsychosocial model of health and illness : a review

• Main Authors: Esposito, Gianluca, Cataldo, Ilaria, Coppola, Aurora, Bornstein, Marc H., Atiqah Azhari
• Other Authors: School of Social Sciences
• Format: Article
• Language: English
• Published: 2019
• Subjects: Substance Use Disorder; Mothering; Social sciences::Psychology
• Online Access: https://hdl.handle.net/10356/90066; http://hdl.handle.net/10220/49380
• Institution: Nanyang Technological University

Women who abuse illicit drugs often engage in atypical parenting behaviors that interfere with the natural development of mother-infant interaction and attachment. Maternal caregiving deficits leave pronounced adverse consequences in the wake of drug abuse relapse, which often occurs and in early in...