Maiken Pontoppidan

Senior Researcher, PhD

  • Children, Adolescents and Families
  • Daycare, School and Education
  • Health Care

Key Expertise:

  • mMental health,
  • Vulnerable persons,
  • Placement,
  • Civic and user involvement,
  • Civil society,
  • Daycare,
  • Professionals,
  • Substance abuse,
  • Care,
  • Inequality and social heritage,
  • Interventions,
  • Parent,
  • Family,
  • Child,
  • Infant,
  • Mentalization,
  • Foster care,
  • Well-being
My interest is in examining how to best help disadvantaged children and families develop and grow. I have a broad knowledge on child development and assessment of children and families. I have been involved in many different evaluations of parenting interventions. I am specialized in Randomized Controlled Trials (RCTs) and have extensive knowledge on design, recruitment, randomization procedures, data collection and other aspects of designing and running an RCT. I have an extensive international network within the field of child development and designing and running RCTs.

Areas of work

Maiken Pontoppidan is interested in examining how best to support the development and growth of disadvantaged children and their parents. She has a broad knowledge of child development and assessment of children and families. She has been involved in many different evaluations of parenting interventions.

Maiken Pontoppidan is specialized in Randomized Controlled Trials (RCTs) and has extensive knowledge of design, recruitment, randomisation procedures, data collection and other aspects of designing and running an RCT. She has an extensive international network in the field of child development and the designing and running of RCTs.

 

 

Selected publications

Scientific article
7. NOV 2018
  • Children, Adolescents and Families

Pontoppidan, M. W., Nielsen, T., & Kristensen, I. H. (2018). Psychometric properties of the Danish Parental Stress Scale: Rasch analysis in a sample of mothers with infants. PLoS ONE, 13(11). https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0205662

Scientific article
3. JUL 2018
  • Daycare, school and education

Pontoppidan, M., Keilow, M., Dietrichson, J., Solheim, O. J., Opheim, V., Gustafson, S., & Calmar Andersen, S. (2018). Randomised controlled trials in Scandinavian educational research. Educational Research, 60(3), 311-335. https://doi.org/10.1080/00131881.2018.1493351

Conference contribution
28. MAY 2018

Pontoppidan, M. W. (2018). The effects of parenting interventions for at-risk parents with infants: A systematic review and meta-analyses. Abstract from 16th WAIMH World Congress , Rom, Italy.

Scientific article
3. FEB 2017
  • Children, Adolescents and Families

Pontoppidan, M. W., Niss, N. K., Pejtersen, J. H., Julian, M. M., & Væver, M. S. (2017). Parent report measures of infant social-emotional development: A systematic review. Family Practice, 34(2), 127-137. https://doi.org/10.1093/fampra/cmx003

Scientific article
14. DEC 2016
  • Children, Adolescents and Families

Pontoppidan, M. W., Klest, S., & Sandoy, T. M. (2016). The Incredible Years Parents and Babies Program: A Pilot Randomized Controlled Trial. PLoS ONE, 11(12), 1-21. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0167592

Scientific article
7. MAR 2023

Dalgaard, N. T., Villumsen, A. M., Sørensen, K. M., Midgley, N., Væver, M. S., Almlund, M., & Pontoppidan, M. (2023). Holding a Foster Child’s Mind in Mind: Study Protocol for a Cluster-Randomized Controlled Trial of Mentalization-based Therapy (MBT) for Foster Families. BMC Psychology , 11, 62. https://doi.org/10.1186/s40359-023-01103-8

Conference contribution
1. OCT 2022

Pontoppidan, M. (2022). 10 years with ASQ in Denmark. Abstract from ASQ around the world, Chicago, United States.

Scientific article
24. JUN 2022

Pontoppidan, M., Jensen, M. T., Friis-Hansen, M., Slade , A., & Sadler, L. (2022). Minding the Baby versus usual care: study protocol for a quasi-cluster-randomized controlled study in Denmark of an early interdisciplinary home-visiting intervention for families at increased risk for adversity. Trials, 23(1), 529. https://doi.org/10.1186/s13063-022-06434-2

Scientific article
18. JUN 2022
  • The Social Sector
  • Children, Adolescents and Families
  • Daycare, school and education

Smith-Nielsen, J., Wendelboe, K. I., Mohr, J. E. W., Væver, M. S., Pontoppidan, M., Helmerhorst, K., & Egmose, I. (2022). Promoting interactive skills and mind-mindedness among early childcare professionals: study protocol for a randomized wait-list controlled trial comparing the Circle of Security approach with care as usual in center-based childcare (the SECURE project). BMC Psychology , 10, Article 153. https://doi.org/10.1186/s40359-022-00835-3

Scientific article
7. JUN 2022
  • Management and implementation
  • The Social Sector
  • Children, Adolescents and Families

Pontoppidan, M., Jensen, M. T., & Steenhoff, T. (2022). Parent-child relationship outcomes of the Incredible Years Parents and Babies Program: A Pilot Randomized Controlled Trial. Scandinavian Journal of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry and Psychology, 10(1), 40-52. https://doi.org/10.2478/sjcapp-2022-0004

Scientific article
28. JAN 2022
  • The Social Sector
  • Children, Adolescents and Families

Skovgaard, A. M., Bakermans-Kranenburg, M., Pontoppidan, M., Tjørnhøj-Thomsen, T., Rich Madsen, K., Voss, I., Wehner, S. K., Pedersen, T. P., Finseth, L., Taylor, R., Tolstrup, J. S., & Ammitzbøll, J. (2022). The Infant Health Study - Promoting mental health and healthy weight through sensitive parent-ing to infants with cognitive, emotional, and regulatory vulnerabilities: protocol for a stepped-wedge cluster-randomized trial and a process evaluation within municipality settings. BMC Public Health, 22, Article 194(2022). https://doi.org/10.1186/s12889-022-12551-z

Scientific article
24. JAN 2022
  • The Social Sector
  • Children, Adolescents and Families
  • Health Care

Pontoppidan, M., Nygaard, L., Jensen, M. T., Friis-Hansen, M., Davis, D., & Nøhr, E. A. (2022). The FACAM study: protocol for a randomized controlled study of an early interdisciplinary intervention to support women in vulnerable positions through pregnancy and the first 5 years of motherhood. Trials, 23, Article 73. https://doi.org/10.1186/s13063-022-06022-4

Scientific article
5. JAN 2022
  • The Social Sector
  • Children, Adolescents and Families

Dalgaard, N. T., Filges, T., Viinholt, B. C. A., & Pontoppidan, M. (2022). Parenting interventions to support parent/child attachment and psychosocial adjustment in foster and adoptive parents and children: A systematic review. Campbell Systematic Reviews, 18(1), Article e1209. https://doi.org/10.1002/cl2.1209

Scientific article
4. DEC 2021
  • Management and implementation
  • The Social Sector
  • Children, Adolescents and Families

Pontoppidan, M. W. (2021). What do parents think of using informational videos to support recruitment for parenting trials? A qualitative study. Trials, 22, 872. Article 872. https://doi.org/10.1186/s13063-021-05826-0

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