Purpose

The clinical project provides participating families with a “mother-child video bonding consultation” with Dr. Beebe based on video- and audio-taping system at NYSPI. Ongoing clinical support is offered through the program from an off-site location. The recording procedures simultaneously serve both the research and clinical components of the project. The research project seeks to study mother-infant / mother-child behaviors following the loss including difficult mourning, anxiety and depression as well as protective factors.

Type of Study: Observational Type
Setting of Study: outpatient
Clinical Trials.gov number: 
Providing Clinical Treatment?: Yes
No Cost Treatment?: Yes

Study Activities

Filling Out Forms

Eligibility

Ages Eligible for Study: Years - Years
Genders Eligible for Study: Both
This study is not recruiting Healthy Volunteers.

Criteria

Inclusion Criteria:
Inclusion criteria; families in which a) the mother was pregnant and widowed on 9-11, b) the mother was widowed on 9-11 after having given birth in the year prior, or c) the family lived near the 9-11 site and was traumatized although no parent was lost.

Location: New York State Psychiatric Institute Unit #108 Communication Sciences 1051 Riverside Drive New York, New York, 10032
Clinic: 
Division: Other

Study chairs or principal investigators:
Beatrice Beebe PhD, Principal Investigator

Co-investigators:
Joseph Jaffe, MD,