Enhancing parent-child interaction during foster care visits: experimental assessment of an intervention.
Mothers of young children recently placed in foster care participated in an intervention to enhance parent-child interaction during visits. The mothers all reported substantial loss and trauma histories. Immediately prior to the visits, the mothers were coached on strategies for separating from their children at the visit's end. The mothers displayed more behavioral strategies for supporting their children when the visit was over, but were less engaged with their children during the leave-taking sequence and displayed fewer ways of maintaining the child's involvement in mother-child interaction during leave-taking than those in a comparison group. This article discusses consideration of parents' trauma history in designing interventions to enhance parent-child interaction.
Haight
Wendy L
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School of Social Work, University of Illinois Urbana Champaign, Urbana, IL 61801, USA.
Mangelsdorf
Sarah
S
Black
James
J
Szewczyk
Margaret
M
Schoppe
Sarah
S
Giorgio
Grace
G
Madrigal
Karen
K
Tata
Lakshmi
L
D000293:Adolescent; D000328:Adult; D001010:Anxiety, Separation; D002648:Child; D002669:Child Welfare; D002675:Child, Preschool; D004644:Emotions; D005260:Female; D005581:Foster Home Care / Q000523:psychology*; D006801:Humans; D007087:Illinois; D007223:Infant; D007407:Interviews as Topic; D009034:Mother-Child Relations; D009035:Mothers / Q000193:education / Q000523:psychology*; D012947:Social Work / Q000458:organization & administration; D014743:Videotape Recording