title: Promoting supportive parenting in new mothers with substance-use problems: a pilot randomized trial of residential treatment plus an attachment-based parenting program.
abstract: This pilot randomized trial tested the feasibility and efficacy of supplementing residential substance-abuse treatment for new mothers with a brief, yet rigorous, attachment-based parenting program. Twenty-one predominantly (86%) White mothers and their infants living together in residential substance-abuse treatment were randomly assigned to the program (n = 11) or control (n = 10) group. Program mothers received 10 home-based sessions of Dozier's Attachment and Biobehavioral Catch-up (ABC) intervention. Postintervention observations revealed more supportive parenting behaviors among the randomly assigned ABC mothers.
authors.affiliation: University of Maryland.
authors.forename: Lisa J
authors.initials: LJ
authors.lastname: Berlin
authors.forename: Meghan
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Shanahan
authors.forename: Karen
authors.initials: K
authors.lastname: Appleyard Carmody
mesh_terms: D000328:Adult; D004505:Education, Nonprofessional / Q000379:methods*; D005240:Feasibility Studies; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D007223:Infant; D008297:Male; D009035:Mothers / Q000523:psychology*; D016487:Parenting / Q000523:psychology*; D010865:Pilot Projects; D011569:Psychiatric Status Rating Scales; D012114:Residential Treatment / Q000379:methods*; D019966:Substance-Related Disorders / Q000628:therapy*; D011795:Surveys and Questionnaires; D016896:Treatment Outcome; D055815:Young Adult