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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

Social Networks, Quality of Child Rearing, and Child Development.

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Crittenden, Patricia M. – Child Development, 1985

Three hypotheses were investigated among 121 maltreating and adequate mother/child dyads: that (1) there would be qualitative differences in the supportiveness of mothers' networks; (2) differences would be related to differences in child attachment to mother; and (3) differences in mothers' approaches to relationships might have influenced their…

Descriptors: Attachment Behavior, Behavior Patterns, Child Abuse, Child Rearing