Kerry‐Ann Grant

Datos Biográficos

ID7054072
NOMBREKerry‐Ann Grant
NOMBRESKerry‐Ann
APELLIDOGrant
FIRMAGRANT K A
AFILIACIONESHealth Education and Training Institute
ORCID0000-0003-4674-9140
VERIFICADOSí
TOTAL DE OBRAS4
TOTAL DE CITAS0
TOTAL COMO AUTOR4
TOTAL COMO EDITOR0
PRIMER AÑO DE PUBLICACIÓN2020
AÑO MÁS RECIENTE DE PUBLICACIÓN2026
ÍNDICE H0

  • Maternal input, not transient elevated depression and anxiety symptoms, predicts 2-year-olds’ vocabulary development

    Open AccessNan Xu Rattanasone, Ruth Brookman et al.ARTICLEJournal of Child Language2026

    Both the quantity and quality of the maternal language input are important for early language development. However, depression and anxiety can negatively impact mothers’ engagement with their infants and their infants’ expressive language abilities. Australian mother-infant dyads ( N = 30) participated in a longitudinal study examining the effect of maternal language input when infants were 24 and 30 months and maternal depression and anxiety sym…

  • I’m an okay mother”

    Open AccessRuth Brookman, Janet Conti et al.ARTICLEBMC Psychology2025

    Findings expand the scope of VIG from its original aim of increasing maternal sensitivity, to that of indirectly assisting mothers with forming a more positive and durable sense of motherhood identity. Clinical implications and suggestions for the role of video feedback interventions in maternal depression are discussed, including the need for further research on VIG interventions in this group

  • Social Anxiety Disorder

    Open AccessRuth Brookman, Fay Bird et al.ARTICLEChild Psychiatry & Human…2022

    Social anxiety can have an adverse effect on social connections, educational achievement, and wellbeing. However, the extent to which students stigmatize their peers with social anxiety disorder (SAD) in female educational settings remains unknown. This study investigated the relationship between SAD, peer-liking and stigma in a cohort of early adolescent girls. The sample was 103 sixth and seventh graders attending three girls' schools in Austra…

  • Depression and Anxiety in the Postnatal Period

    Open AccessRuth Brookman, Marina Kalashnikova et al.ARTICLEChild Development2020

    This longitudinal study investigated the effects of maternal emotional health concerns, on infants’ home language environment, vocalization quantity, and expressive language skills. Mothers and their infants (at 6 and 12 months; 21 mothers with depression and or anxiety and 21 controls) provided day-long home-language recordings. Compared with controls, risk group recordings contained fewer mother–infant conversational turns and infant vocalizati…