Holly Brophy‐herb
Biographic Data
| ID | 1464221 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Holly Brophy‐herb |
| GIVEN NAMES | Holly |
| FAMILY NAME | Brophy‐herb |
| SIGNATURE | HERB H B |
| AFFILIATIONS | Michigan State University |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-2186-6025 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 44 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 87 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 44 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1995 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 6 |
The Rewards and Stresses of Teaching for Infant and Toddler Educators
Emerging work on educator well-being highlights relational well-being, a new construct reflecting, in part, the quality of educators’ workplace relationships, as potentially central for supporting educators. Relational well-being is understudied in the context of educators’ stressors, as are educators’ experiences in the relationships central to their work – those with children, families, colleagues, supervisors - which comprise their relational …
Mapping Research on Early Ethnic‐Racial Awareness Development Among Infants and Toddlers
The purpose of this study is to expand understanding of the early stages of the lifespan model of ethnic‐racial identity by summarizing and mapping existing research on the development of ethnic‐racial awareness among children from birth to age 3. A scoping review methodology is used to systematically identify and analyze the existing literature on early ethnic‐racial awareness and developmental influences on this awareness among infants and todd…
Infant and toddler teachers perspectives on interconnections between relationships and professional well-being during the Covid-19 pandemic
A growing body of research characterizes the stressful nature of early childhood teachers’ work with children and families, although less is known about the experiences of infant/toddler (I/T) teachers. This qualitative study aimed to explore infant/toddler teachers’ workplace stressors and workplace supports at the outset of the COVID-19 pandemic. Data were collected from interviews with 22 I/T teachers from a Midwestern state in the United Stat…
A Thematic Analysis of Low-Income African American Fathers’ Meta-Emotion Interview Responses
This study explored African American fathers’ beliefs about and experiences with their own and their children’s negative emotions. Participants included 58 African American fathers in the Midwestern region of the United States between the ages of 29 and 40 ( M age = 30.94). Participants completed the Meta-Emotion Interview, a semi-structured interview of parents’ and their children’s negative emotion. A theoretical thematic analysis of participan…
How are Early Head Start teachers’ professional development experiences associated with their work-related stress and qualities of teacher-child interactions
Optimizing health services for young children in poverty
Given the importance of health to educational outcomes, and education to concurrent and future health, cross-systems approaches, such as the Whole School, Whole Community, Whole Child (WSCC) framework, seek to enhance services typically in K-12 settings. A major gap exists in cross-systems links with early care and education serving children birth to age 5. Both pediatric health systems and early family and child support programs, such as Early H…
Stress Intensity and Exhaustion Among Infant and Toddler Teachers
This study described infant/toddler teachers' (N = 106) perceptions of stress intensity and exhaustion (emotional, physical, mental) intensity. We examined the associations between stress and exhaustion and teachers' reports of stress sources and coping strategy use. Using ecological momentary assessment (EMA), teachers from Early Head Start (EHS), EHS childcare-partnerships, or independent childcare programs (midwestern U.S.) completed twice-wee…
Relationships reduce risks for child maltreatment
Findings suggest that greater participation in IMH-HV is associated with decreased risk for child maltreatment 1 year after initiating treatment. IMH-HV promotes parent-clinician therapeutic alliance and provides infant-parent psychotherapy which differentiate it from traditional home visiting programs
Demographic and psychological factors that predict retention in infant mental health home visiting
Supporting family meal frequency
Infant and early childhood mental health in the context of Covid‐19 special issue
Sex differences in toddlers’ negative attributions to challenges
Children's attributions during challenge have roots in toddlerhood with the onset of self‐evaluative emotions and may reflect sex differences in early socialization practices. This study examined toddler sex as moderating associations between mothers’ ( n = 104, 73.1% White, 75% with a college degree or more) characteristics (low emotional awareness, emotion coaching beliefs) and toddlers’ ( M age = 26.4 mos.; 51 girls) self‐evaluative negative a…
Relationships heal
Call to action
The Infant Mental Health Journal is committed to ending systemic racism and promoting diversity, equity, and inclusion in academic publishing. IMHJ unequivocally denounces all forms of racism and white supremacy, including systemic racism in academic publishing. We commit to investigating and working to terminate the ways in which systemic racism has become normalized in academic publishing, including examining our practices and processes at IMHJ…
A pilot evaluation of the Building Early Emotional Skills (Bees) curriculum in face‐to‐face and online formats
The Building Early Emotional Skills (BEES) parenting program is designed to promote parent-child relationships and more optimal social-emotional development by addressing four sequentially built skills in parenting infants/toddlers: (1) building parental awareness of emotions in self and child; (2) listening and interacting sensitively; (3) identifying and labeling emotions; and (4) intentionally supporting early self-regulation skills. BEES used…
Low-income children’s readiness for group-based learning at age 3 and prekindergarten outcomes at age 5
Although 3-year-olds in the United States may attend prekindergarten prior to formal school entry in kindergarten, few investigations focus on the socioemotional foundations of classroom learning at age 3 and their relationship to later achievement. This study examined the relationship between age 3 readiness for group-based learning, modeled as the latent constructs, effortful control and social communication, and age 5 classroom adjustment and …
Community‐delivered infant–parent psychotherapy improves maternal sensitive caregiving
The current study evaluated the effectiveness of a home‐based psychotherapeutic Infant Mental Health Home Visiting (IMH‐HV) intervention for enhancing parenting sensitivity; a secondary aim was to evaluate whether the use of video feedback was associated with greater treatment response. Participants were N = 78 mothers and their children (age at entry ranged from prebirth to 24‐month old ( M = 9.8, SD = 8.4), who were initiating IMH‐HV services w…
Effects of maternal mentalization-related parenting on toddlers’ self-regulation
Do child gender and temperament moderate associations between Head Start classroom social-emotional climate and children’s social-emotional competencies
Familial psychosocial risk classes and preschooler body mass index
Dyadic Relations Between Interparental Conflict and Parental Emotion Socialization
This study examined the effects of destructive and constructive interparental conflict on unsupportive parental emotion socialization behaviors ( N = 166 parents of toddlers). Both mothers and fathers completed measures of destructive and constructive interparental conflict and emotion dismissing beliefs and unsupportive responses to toddlers' expressions of negative emotions such as anger, fear, and sadness. Multilevel modeling for the actor-par…
Effectiveness of differing levels of support for family meals on obesity prevention among head start preschoolers
Clincaltrials.gov Identifier NCT02487251 ; Registered June 26, 2015
Changes in household food insecurity are related to changes in BMI and diet quality among Michigan Head Start preschoolers in a sex-specific manner
Child behavior problems
Do Young Children's Representations of Discipline and Empathy Moderate the Effects of Punishment on Emotion Regulation
This study examined whether children's representations of parenting (perceptions of authoritative discipline and empathy) moderated the association between harsh punishment—including corporal punishment (CP) and verbal punishment (VP)—and children's emotion regulation at the age of five years. Participants were 559 low‐income mother‐child dyads. Maternal self‐reports and home observations were used to measure punishment. Children's representation…
Community‐delivered infant–parent psychotherapy improves maternal sensitive caregiving
The current study evaluated the effectiveness of a home‐based psychotherapeutic Infant Mental Health Home Visiting (IMH‐HV) intervention for enhancing parenting sensitivity; a secondary aim was to evaluate whether the use of video feedback was associated with greater treatment response. Participants were N = 78 mothers and their children (age at entry ranged from prebirth to 24‐month old ( M = 9.8, SD = 8.4), who were initiating IMH‐HV services w…
Modeling maternal emotion-related socialization behaviors in a low-income sample
Child behavior problems
Examining Long-Term Effects of an Infant Mental Health Home-Based Early Head Start Program on Family Strengths and Resilience
Infant Mental Health based interventions aim to promote the healthy development of infants and toddlers through promoting healthy family functioning to foster supportive relationships between the young child and his or her important caregivers. This study examined impacts of an Infant Mental Health home-based Early Head Start (IMH-HB EHS) program on family functioning. The sample includes 152 low-income families in the Midwestern United States, e…
Toddlers' Social‐emotional Competence in the Contexts of Maternal Emotion Socialization and Contingent Responsiveness in a Low‐income Sample
Early social‐emotional development occurs in the context of parenting, particularly via processes such as maternal emotion socialization and parent–child interactions. Results from structural equation modeling indicated that maternal contingent responsiveness partially mediated the relationship between maternal emotion socialization of toddlers (N = 119, ages 12–36 months) and toddlers' social‐emotional competence. Effect size was strongest for t…
Changes in household food insecurity are related to changes in BMI and diet quality among Michigan Head Start preschoolers in a sex-specific manner
Effects of parental supportiveness on toddlers' emotion regulation over the first three years of life in a low‐income African American sample
The purpose of this study was to examine how parental supportiveness and child gender are related to toddlers' emotion regulation over time among low‐income African American mothers and their children ( n = 803). Data for the current study were collected as part of the Early Head Start Research and Evaluation Project. Using latent growth curve modeling, results indicated that parental supportiveness predicted toddlers' emotion regulation skills, …
Stability of Biological Father Presence as a Proxy for Family Stability
The current study, utilizing data from the National Early Head Start Research and Evaluation Project (Love et al., 2005) explored the relationship between biological father presence and emotion regulation over toddlerhood among children from low-income families. Conceptualizing biological father presence as a proxy for family role development, results are interpreted from a role development theoretical perspective. The latent growth curve model w…
Relationships heal
Call to action
The Infant Mental Health Journal is committed to ending systemic racism and promoting diversity, equity, and inclusion in academic publishing. IMHJ unequivocally denounces all forms of racism and white supremacy, including systemic racism in academic publishing. We commit to investigating and working to terminate the ways in which systemic racism has become normalized in academic publishing, including examining our practices and processes at IMHJ…
Effects of maternal mentalization-related parenting on toddlers’ self-regulation
Implementing a statewide early childhood mental health consultation approach to preventing childcare expulsion
State‐ and local‐level mental health administrators and practitioners can work collaboratively to provide effective early childhood mental health consultation (ECMHC) services that address the growing need in communities to promote healthy socioemotional functioning in infants and young children and prevent longer term mental health challenges. This article describes one state's model of ECMHC, the Child Care Expulsion Prevention Program (CCEP), …
Familial psychosocial risk classes and preschooler body mass index
Longitudinal Connections of Maternal Supportiveness and Early Emotion Regulation to Children’s School Readiness in Low-Income Families
Maternal supportiveness and children’s emotion regulation are considered crucial for the development of school readiness, and enhancing both is particularly important for children from low-income families who are at higher risk for reduced school readiness. This study uses latent growth curve analysis to examine longitudinal connections between maternal supportiveness and toddler emotion regulation as predictors of children’s cognitive school rea…
Adult Caregivers’ Behavioral Responses to Child Noncompliance in Public Settings
Early emotional development in infants and toddlers
As part of a curriculum‐development project, focus groups were implemented with Early Head Start staff and with parents of infants and toddlers enrolled in Early Head Start. Focus groups were designed to identify staff and parent beliefs about early emotional development. Three major themes were identified that crossed the staff and parent focus groups: (a) Infants' and toddlers' abilities to have emotions and to be aware of others' emotions; (b)…
A Thematic Analysis of Low-Income African American Fathers’ Meta-Emotion Interview Responses
This study explored African American fathers’ beliefs about and experiences with their own and their children’s negative emotions. Participants included 58 African American fathers in the Midwestern region of the United States between the ages of 29 and 40 ( M age = 30.94). Participants completed the Meta-Emotion Interview, a semi-structured interview of parents’ and their children’s negative emotion. A theoretical thematic analysis of participan…
How are Early Head Start teachers’ professional development experiences associated with their work-related stress and qualities of teacher-child interactions
Demographic and psychological factors that predict retention in infant mental health home visiting
Dyadic Relations Between Interparental Conflict and Parental Emotion Socialization
This study examined the effects of destructive and constructive interparental conflict on unsupportive parental emotion socialization behaviors ( N = 166 parents of toddlers). Both mothers and fathers completed measures of destructive and constructive interparental conflict and emotion dismissing beliefs and unsupportive responses to toddlers' expressions of negative emotions such as anger, fear, and sadness. Multilevel modeling for the actor-par…
Do Young Children's Representations of Discipline and Empathy Moderate the Effects of Punishment on Emotion Regulation
This study examined whether children's representations of parenting (perceptions of authoritative discipline and empathy) moderated the association between harsh punishment—including corporal punishment (CP) and verbal punishment (VP)—and children's emotion regulation at the age of five years. Participants were 559 low‐income mother‐child dyads. Maternal self‐reports and home observations were used to measure punishment. Children's representation…
Buffering boys and boosting girls
Working With Teenage Mothers
Working with adolescents today means contending with issues including teenage pregnancy, community violence, family violence, poverty, single-parent and blended families on a daily basis. Millions of children live in poverty; over a million teenage births occur annually; teenagers killing teenagers is too common an event. These stark facts leave professionals wondering what can be done to help children and adolescents overcome the odds against th…
Reflectivity
Low-income fathers and their infants
This study sought to explore low-income father–infant interactions in teaching situations. Forty-four biological fathers and infants, recruited from an ongoing study of early intervention, were observed using the NCAST Teaching Scale during a teaching task in the home. Results indicated that fathers who lived with their infants were more sensitive to infant cues during the interactions. Also, fathers identified as “lower risk,” based on a risk in…
Une étude exploratoire. Interaction entre les dyades mère-nourrisson et père-nourrisson chez les couples à faible revenu
Vingt-neuf parents à faible revenu et leurs nourrissons ont participé à une recherche exploratoire portant sur les interactions parent-nourrisson et décrivant le niveau d'interactions, les similarités et les différences au sein des dyades mère-nourrisson et père-nourrisson. L'échelle de mesure Nursing Child Assessment Teaching Scale, un instrument d'observation standardisé de 73 items, a été utilisée pour mesurer les interactions. Les résultats o…
Health Professionals’ Perspectives on the Infant Feeding Practices of Low Income Mothers
Mealtime Television Viewing and Dietary Quality in Low-Income African American and Caucasian Mother–Toddler Dyads
Key Theoretical Frameworks for Intervention
Early emotional development in infants and toddlers
As part of a curriculum‐development project, focus groups were implemented with Early Head Start staff and with parents of infants and toddlers enrolled in Early Head Start. Focus groups were designed to identify staff and parent beliefs about early emotional development. Three major themes were identified that crossed the staff and parent focus groups: (a) Infants' and toddlers' abilities to have emotions and to be aware of others' emotions; (b)…
Effects of parental supportiveness on toddlers' emotion regulation over the first three years of life in a low‐income African American sample
The purpose of this study was to examine how parental supportiveness and child gender are related to toddlers' emotion regulation over time among low‐income African American mothers and their children ( n = 803). Data for the current study were collected as part of the Early Head Start Research and Evaluation Project. Using latent growth curve modeling, results indicated that parental supportiveness predicted toddlers' emotion regulation skills, …
Toddlers' Social‐emotional Competence in the Contexts of Maternal Emotion Socialization and Contingent Responsiveness in a Low‐income Sample
Early social‐emotional development occurs in the context of parenting, particularly via processes such as maternal emotion socialization and parent–child interactions. Results from structural equation modeling indicated that maternal contingent responsiveness partially mediated the relationship between maternal emotion socialization of toddlers (N = 119, ages 12–36 months) and toddlers' social‐emotional competence. Effect size was strongest for t…
Healthy babies through infant-centered feeding protocol
Current Controlled Trials ACTRN126100000415000
Buffering boys and boosting girls
Modeling maternal emotion-related socialization behaviors in a low-income sample
Enhancing self-regulation as a strategy for obesity prevention in Head Start preschoolers
Clinicaltrials.gov Identifier: NCT01398358
Implementing a statewide early childhood mental health consultation approach to preventing childcare expulsion
State‐ and local‐level mental health administrators and practitioners can work collaboratively to provide effective early childhood mental health consultation (ECMHC) services that address the growing need in communities to promote healthy socioemotional functioning in infants and young children and prevent longer term mental health challenges. This article describes one state's model of ECMHC, the Child Care Expulsion Prevention Program (CCEP), …
Adult Caregivers’ Behavioral Responses to Child Noncompliance in Public Settings
Longitudinal Connections of Maternal Supportiveness and Early Emotion Regulation to Children’s School Readiness in Low-Income Families
Maternal supportiveness and children’s emotion regulation are considered crucial for the development of school readiness, and enhancing both is particularly important for children from low-income families who are at higher risk for reduced school readiness. This study uses latent growth curve analysis to examine longitudinal connections between maternal supportiveness and toddler emotion regulation as predictors of children’s cognitive school rea…
Stability of Biological Father Presence as a Proxy for Family Stability
The current study, utilizing data from the National Early Head Start Research and Evaluation Project (Love et al., 2005) explored the relationship between biological father presence and emotion regulation over toddlerhood among children from low-income families. Conceptualizing biological father presence as a proxy for family role development, results are interpreted from a role development theoretical perspective. The latent growth curve model w…
Do Young Children's Representations of Discipline and Empathy Moderate the Effects of Punishment on Emotion Regulation
This study examined whether children's representations of parenting (perceptions of authoritative discipline and empathy) moderated the association between harsh punishment—including corporal punishment (CP) and verbal punishment (VP)—and children's emotion regulation at the age of five years. Participants were 559 low‐income mother‐child dyads. Maternal self‐reports and home observations were used to measure punishment. Children's representation…
Examining Long-Term Effects of an Infant Mental Health Home-Based Early Head Start Program on Family Strengths and Resilience
Infant Mental Health based interventions aim to promote the healthy development of infants and toddlers through promoting healthy family functioning to foster supportive relationships between the young child and his or her important caregivers. This study examined impacts of an Infant Mental Health home-based Early Head Start (IMH-HB EHS) program on family functioning. The sample includes 152 low-income families in the Midwestern United States, e…
Child behavior problems
Effectiveness of differing levels of support for family meals on obesity prevention among head start preschoolers
Clincaltrials.gov Identifier NCT02487251 ; Registered June 26, 2015
Changes in household food insecurity are related to changes in BMI and diet quality among Michigan Head Start preschoolers in a sex-specific manner
Effects of maternal mentalization-related parenting on toddlers’ self-regulation
Do child gender and temperament moderate associations between Head Start classroom social-emotional climate and children’s social-emotional competencies
Psychology (38 works) · Developmental psychology (36 works) · Child and Adolescent Psychosocial and Emotional Development (24 works) · Medicine (24 works) · Early Childhood Education and Development (20 works) · Clinical Psychology (13 works) · Environmental health (13 works) · Psychiatry (13 works) · Social Psychology (11 works) · Head start (10 works)