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Changing Teacher-Child Dyadic Interactions to Improve Preschool Children's Externalizing Behaviors
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Williford, Amanda P.; LoCasale-Crouch, Jennifer; Whittaker, Jessica Vick; DeCoster, Jamie; Hartz, Karyn A.; Carter, Lauren M.; Wolcott, Catherine Sanger; Hatfield, Bridget E. – Child Development, 2017
A randomized controlled trial was used to examine the impact of an attachment-based, teacher-child, dyadic intervention (Banking Time) to improve children's externalizing behavior. Participants included 183 teachers and 470 preschool children (3-4 years of age). Classrooms were randomly assigned to Banking Time, child time, or business as usual…
Descriptors: Randomized Controlled Trials, Attachment Behavior, Teacher Student Relationship, Student Behavior
A Randomized Controlled Trial of a Home-Visiting Intervention Aimed at Preventing Relationship Problems in Depressed Mothers and Their Infants
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van Doesum, Karin T. M.; Riksen-Walraven, J. Marianne; Hosman, Clemens M. H.; Hoefnagels, Cees – Child Development, 2008
This study examined the effect of a mother-baby intervention on the quality of mother-child interaction, infant-mother attachment security, and infant socioemotional functioning in a group of depressed mothers with infants aged 1-12 months. A randomized controlled trial compared an experimental group (n = 35) receiving the intervention (8-10 home…
Descriptors: Experimental Groups, Control Groups, Intervention, Mothers
Effect of Maternal Social Support on Attachment: Experimental Evidence.
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Jacobson, Sandra W.; Frye, Karen F. – Child Development, 1991
Studied the effects of experimentally manipulated maternal social support on the development of infant attachment in low SES mothers. Examined the possibility that the influence of maternal support varies depending on infant irritability and maternal ego level. Findings provide experimental evidence regarding the importance of social support on…
Descriptors: Attachment Behavior, Home Visits, Infants, Intervention
Do First-Year Intervention Effects Endure? Follow-Up during Toddlerhood of a Sample of Dutch Irritable Infants.
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Boom, Dymphna C. van den – Child Development, 1995
Evaluated the enduring effectiveness of a skill-based training program to enhance maternal sensitivity toward infants between six and nine months of age. Found that more of the toddlers whose mothers participated in the intervention were securely attached than toddlers from the control group dyads. In the third year, evidence of sustained effects…
Descriptors: Attachment Behavior, Followup Studies, Foreign Countries, Intervention
Early Intervention Using Brazelton Training with Middle-Class Mothers and Fathers of Newborns.
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Myers, Barbara J. – Child Development, 1982
The purpose of this study was to test the effectiveness of the Brazelton exam as a parent education tool for mothers and fathers. Target parents in treatment groups were taught to perform the Brazelton exam on their own infant, with attention being drawn to the infant's most positive interactive and physical abilities. (Author/RH)
Descriptors: Attachment Behavior, Fathers, Improvement Programs, Infant Behavior
Infants at Social Risk: Maternal Depression and Family Support Services as Mediators of Infant Development and Security of Attachment.
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Lyons-Ruth, Karlen, And Others. – Child Development, 1990
Infants of depressed mothers who were visited at home outperformed infants of depressed mothers who received no intervention services by an average of 10 points on the Bayley Mental Scale and were twice as likely to be classified as securely attached. Unserved, high-risk infants showed a high rate of insecure-disorganized attachments. (RH)
Descriptors: At Risk Persons, Attachment Behavior, Depression (Psychology), Family Programs
The Long-Term Consequences of Infant Day-Care and Mother Infant Attachment.
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Egeland, Byron; Hiester, Marnie – Child Development, 1995
Explored within-group effects of mother-infant attachment and day care on children's social and emotional development in a high-risk, low income sample of mothers and infants who entered day care early, and a home-reared, middle-class sample of infants and their mothers. Found that the effects of early day care are influenced by security of…
Descriptors: At Risk Persons, Attachment Behavior, Child Caregivers, Day Care