From this literature, we conclude that exchange of maternal and infant odors may serve as an important mode for reciprocal regulation and is thus a critical component of assessed nurture interactions.
"I think it's a nature-nurture interaction, in large part," said Dr. Bruce S. McEwen, professor and head of the laboratory for neuroendocrinology at Rockefeller University in New York.
The fathers need jobs, help getting over their shame, support in reconnecting with their children, and the mothers need support in allowing them to return to nurturing interactions with their children.
Teaching is an important part of the experimental design in such research on nature-nurture interactions.
Reading aloud with a child provides both participants with a pleasant experience and warm, nurturing interactions.
The last few decades of personality research and clinical praxis have seen the emergence of nature-nurture-interaction hypotheses in answer to such fundamental developmental issues [3], [4].
By nurturing interactions and activities, we mean those mother-infant interactions inherently involved in mothering such as holding, touching and communicating.
Nurturing interactions are equally important for establishing and maintaining the mother's physiological and behavioral adaptations necessary for the care of her infant [ 16, 17].
FNI employs three categories of calming activities that are based upon the availability of the infant for nurturing interactions with the mother and upon the availability of the family members to meet with the mother and NS.
Further, parents with even subclinical levels of post-traumatic stress may have difficulty tolerating normal household stressors, reacting with anger or aggression or by psychologically or physically distancing themselves from family activities and consistent, nurturing interactions that foster secure child attachment and marital quality (Galovski and Lyons 2004; Sherman et al. 2005).
Nature and nurture interact.
