Our article on perinatal self-injurious thoughts & behaviors is out today! We found that the odds of engaging in self-injurious behavior were 256% higher at 7 months postpartum relative to 3rd trimester of pregnancy, even after accounting for three risk factors. doi.org/10.1111/sltb...

Thrilled to announce that I will be starting at the University of South Carolina this fall in the Clinical-Community PhD program working with Dr. Michelle Brown! We will be studying childhood maltreatment, emotion dysregulation, and interpersonal relationships. So excited to start this journey! 📚🧠

Our new paper is out! We found that changes in maternal emotion dysregulation from pregnancy to 18-months postpartum are nonlinear, and that experiences during pregnancy and childbirth set the stage for postnatal maternal mental health🤰🏼

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It’s hard to explain sometimes why I do perinatal therapy in clinic when my research addresses early cognitive and language development. Thanks @sheilacrowell.bsky.social @lizconradt.bsky.social and team for helping to make the case for the importance of perinatal mental health care for all.

Congratulations, Kira for your first paper as lead author! This paper helps build a case for more perinatal mental health support. Emotion dysregulation, stress, and physiological dysregulation perinatally associate with later toddler expressive vocabulary.

Check out my first, first author publication! 🎉
We found prenatal resting RSA is directly associated with toddler vocab development! Also, postpartum stress mediated the association between prenatal emotion dysregulation and toddler vocab development.

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