A mother-instruction program: Documenting change in mother-child interactions.
Measures of mother-child interaction change are reported in a series of 30 mothers and their children, aged 2 to 10. Videotaped play sessions were analyzed in detail to provide baseline measures from which individualized modification guidelines were derived. Mothers were instructed in eight weekly sessions via bug-in-the-ear. Postinstruction observations provided quantification of observed changes following instruction. The target of change was mother-child behavior contingency patterns, effected by intervening into the mother component on those patterns. Measured changes in mother and child behaviors, mother-child contingency patterns, and mother's preceptions of child behaviors are compared.
D000339:Affect; D001521:Behavior Therapy; D002648:Child; D002652:Child Behavior; D002653:Child Behavior Disorders / Q000628:therapy; D002675:Child, Preschool; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D008425:Maternal Behavior; D009034:Mother-Child Relations; D010988:Play and Playthings; D012938:Social Perception; D014743:Videotape Recording