title: [Early Intervention and Cognitive Development: A Longitudinal Study with Psychologically Stressed Mother-Child-Dyad during Early Childhood].
abstract: Early intervention programs aiming at developing parents’ relationship and parenting skills and supporting young families have become increasingly established in Germany throughout the last decade. The present longitudinal study analyzed 53 children and their mothers receiving early intervention due to their psychosocially highly challenging life situations and personal circumstances. The children were examined at birth and at an age of twelve months as well as between ages two and four. The results revealed that the child’s cognitive development could be predicted by both maternal sensitivity and mother’s psychosocial stress. However, the amount, type, and intensity of early intervention did not have any effect on the child’s development. In terms of the effectiveness of early interventions the results implicate that interventions seems to be offered in an unspecific manner and does not contribute to an improvement of the child’s developmental status.
authors.affiliation: Universitätsklinik für Kinder- und Jugendpsychiatrie/Psychotherapie Ulm Steinhövelstraße 5, 89075 Ulm Deutschland.
authors.forename: Annabel
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Zwönitzer
authors.affiliation: Universitätsklinik für Kinder- und Jugendpsychiatrie/Psychotherapie Ulm Steinhövelstraße 5, 89075 Ulm Deutschland.
authors.forename: Ute
authors.initials: U
authors.lastname: Ziegenhain
authors.affiliation: Universität Erlangen-Nürnberg Schloßplatz 4, 91054 Erlangen Deutschland Institut für Psychologie, Universität Erlangen-Nürnberg.
authors.forename: Ina
authors.initials: I
authors.lastname: Bovenschen
authors.affiliation: Universitätsklinik für Kinder- und Jugendpsychiatrie/Psychotherapie Ulm Steinhövelstraße 5, 89075 Ulm Deutschland.
authors.forename: Melanie
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Pillhofer
authors.affiliation: Universität Erlangen-Nürnberg Schloßplatz 4, 91054 Erlangen Deutschland Institut für Psychologie, Universität Erlangen-Nürnberg.
authors.forename: Gottfried
authors.initials: G
authors.lastname: Spangler
authors.affiliation: Universität Erlangen-Nürnberg Schloßplatz 4, 91054 Erlangen Deutschland Institut für Psychologie, Universität Erlangen-Nürnberg.
authors.forename: Jennifer
authors.initials: J
authors.lastname: Gerlach
authors.affiliation: Universität Erlangen-Nürnberg Schloßplatz 4, 91054 Erlangen Deutschland Institut für Psychologie, Universität Erlangen-Nürnberg.
authors.forename: Sandra
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Gabler
authors.affiliation: Deutsches Jugendinstitut München Nockherstraße 2, 81541 München Deutschland.
authors.forename: Heinz
authors.initials: H
authors.lastname: Kindler
authors.affiliation: Universitätsklinik für Kinder- und Jugendpsychiatrie/Psychotherapie Ulm Steinhövelstraße 5, 89075 Ulm Deutschland.
authors.forename: Jörg M
authors.initials: JM
authors.lastname: Fegert
authors.affiliation: Universitätsklinik für Kinder- und Jugendpsychiatrie/Psychotherapie Ulm Steinhövelstraße 5, 89075 Ulm Deutschland.
authors.forename: Anne Katrin
authors.initials: AK
authors.lastname: Künster
mesh_terms: D000068216:Child Protective Services; D002675:Child, Preschool; D003072:Cognition Disorders / Q000175:diagnosis / Q000523:psychology / Q000628:therapy*; D018479:Early Intervention, Educational; D004505:Education, Nonprofessional; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D007223:Infant; D007231:Infant, Newborn; D008137:Longitudinal Studies; D008297:Male; D008425:Maternal Behavior / Q000523:psychology; D009034:Mother-Child Relations; D013315:Stress, Psychological / Q000150:complications*
keywords: Frühe Hilfen; Kinderschutz; child protection; child’s cognitive development; early childhood; early intervention; frühe Kindheit; kognitive Entwicklung; maternal sensitivity; mütterliche Feinfühligkeit