Journal Abstracts     • Historically, the practice of treating
adults for prenatal and perinatal trauma has consisted of
individual practitioners’ modalities that lacked empirical
validation around treatment specificity or efficacy. Yet, their
commitment to understanding the origins of behaviors has
provided hope for clients challenged with life-long problems.
This paper describes, based on a review of the literature, a
first step towards integrating prenatal and perinatal psychology
theory and practice knowledge with current case formulation and
evidence-based practice models.    • We investigated maternal
personality characteristics and coping style as potential risk
factors for breech presentation in this case-control study.
Mothers of cephalic presentation babies (n=72) and mothers of
breech presentation babies (n=42) participated in a socio-
demographic survey, the State Trait Personality Inventory
(STPI), and an in-depth interview. In-depth interview results
suggested mothers of breech presentation were