title: Emotional attachment and emotional availability tele-intervention for adoptive families.
abstract: This study evaluated the new online Emotional Attachment and Emotional Availability (EA2) Intervention for use with adoptive families in enhancing parent-child EA, parental perceptions of EA, child attachment behaviors, parent-child emotional attachment, and reducing parent-reported child behavioral problems and parenting-related stress. Participants in this study were adoptive parents and their adopted children ages 1.5 to 5 years old (N = 15 dyads). Participants were placed in an immediate intervention group (IG) or a delayed intervention group (DG) that would receive the 6-week EA2 Tele-Intervention after the IG. Results revealed significant differences in the IG in child behavioral problems, parent-child EA, parental perceptions of EA, and parent-child emotional attachment, improvements not seen in the DG. Analysis of effects of the DG after receiving the EA2 Tele-Intervention revealed significant differences over time also in most of these qualities.
authors.affiliation: Colorado State University.
authors.forename: Megan
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Baker
authors.forename: Zeynep
authors.initials: Z
authors.lastname: Biringen
authors.forename: Beatrice
authors.initials: B
authors.lastname: Meyer-Parsons
authors.forename: Abby
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Schneider
mesh_terms: D000300:Adoption / Q000523:psychology*; D000328:Adult; D002652:Child Behavior / Q000523:psychology*; D002675:Child, Preschool; D004644:Emotions; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D007223:Infant; D008297:Male; D010287:Parent-Child Relations; D016487:Parenting / Q000523:psychology*; D010290:Parents / Q000523:psychology*; D010865:Pilot Projects; D013315:Stress, Psychological; D011795:Surveys and Questionnaires; D017216:Telemedicine; D016896:Treatment Outcome