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Maternal and infant (mental) health and development: our TREASURE – Introducing an EU COST Action on the impact of maternal perinatal stress
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2025-05-19
Authors
Caparros-Gonzalez, Rafael A.
Ayers, Susan
Duman, Elif Aysimi
Calleja, Neville
Calleja-Agius, Jean
Carone, Nicola
Christoforou, Andri
Dikmen-Yildiz, Pelin
Garcia-Pintor, Sandra
Horsch, Antje
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Advances in the scientific understanding of the impact of maternal perinatal stress can provide information that is beneficial for women, families and their children across decades. The perinatal period refers to the time from conception up to 1 year postpartum (Fort et al., Citation2024). Stress, despite often being portrayed as a detrimental response, is a crucial contributor to optimal development and biopsychosocial adaptation of organisms to challenges throughout the lifespan by inducing physiological changes, such as in immune, metabolic and cardiovascular systems (McEwen & Akil, Citation2020). In support of this, the World Health Organization (WHO) regional office for Europe task force suggested maternal mental health to be promoted in order to enhance early childhood development. Moreover, WHO Europe recommends a healthy environment during the perinatal period to achieve a healthy infancy, childhood and adulthood (World Health Organization [WHO], Citation2022).
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Perinatal stress , Maternal mental health
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Caparros-Gonzalez, R. A., Ayers, S., Duman, E. A., Calleja, N., Calleja-Agius, J., Carone, N., Christoforou, A., Dikmen-Yildiz, P., Garcia-Pintor, S., Horsch, A., Kittel-Schneider, S., Leno-Duranp, E., Lynn, F., Oosterman, M., Prepušt, L., Rodriguez-Muñoz, M. F., Zietlow, A.-L., Žutić, M. and Garthus-Niegel, S. (2025) 'Maternal and infant (mental) health and development: our TREASURE–Introducing an EU COST Action on the impact of maternal perinatal stress', Journal of Reproductive and Infant Psychology, 43(3), pp.553-556. https://doi.org/10.1080/02646838.2025.2492976