A recent meta - analysis of early childhood interventions asserted that brief interventions (< 5 sessions) focusing on increasing maternal sensitivity and
enhancing infant attachment security were more effective than long - term intervention.23 In contrast, Hennighausen and Lyons - Ruth cited evidence that disorganized attachment responds best to home - based, intensive and long - term interventions.
Enhancing infant attachment security: An examination of treatment efficacy and differential susceptibility.
Not exact matches
• Greater father involvement in
infant care and other household tasks is linked with lower parenting stress and depression in mothers (for review, see Fisher et al, 2006) and is therefore likely to
enhance mother -
infant attachment security.
Minnesota has long been committed to parent - child
attachment,
infant mental health, and thoughtful research to
enhance home visiting practice.
Enhancing attachment organization among maltreated
infants: Results of a randomized clinical trial.
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infant developmental functioning, emotion regulation, and
attachment security; and
enhanced parental sensitive responsiveness, confidence and feelings of efficacy.
As an example, a preventive intervention in families with internationally adopted
infants significantly
enhanced maternal sensitivity and also significantly reduced disorganized
attachment: in the intervention group there were only 6 % disorganized - attached children compared with 22 % in the control group.11 This study used a brief intervention of three home - based sessions of video feedback focusing on parental sensitivity, with the intervention starting when the child was six months old.
Based on the findings of the Dutch studies, it appears that
attachment - based interventions that focus on
enhancing sensitivity are likely to be successful with parents who are motivated to learn ways of responding with their difficult
infants.
FirstPlay ® Therapy is a Play Therapy strength - based model that
enhances the parent - child relationship and is based upon the work of Play Therapy pioneer, Viola Brody, founder of Developmental Play Therapy (DPT);
Infant Massage lit; Ericksonian Play Therapy;
Attachment Theory; & research in Touch.
FirstPlay ® Therapy is a Play Therapy strength - based model that
enhances the parent - child relationship and is based upon the work of Play Therapy pioneer, Viola Brody, founder of Developmental Play Therapy (DPT);
Infant Massage lit; Ericksonian Play Therapy;
Attachment...
Attachment is adaptive as it
enhances the
infant's chance of survival.
Wait, Watch and Wonder DownUnder Wait, Watch and Wonder is a child led psychotherapeutic approach that specifically and directly uses the
infant's spontaneous activity in a free play format to
enhance maternal sensitivity and responsiveness, the child's sense of self and self - efficacy, emotion regulation, and the child - parent
attachment relationship.
When human
infants know their cries will be answered and they experience physical closeness, specific physiological mechanisms are triggered that
enhance the
attachment process.
This play therapy model
enhances parent and
infant bonding and
attachment.
How these professionals may best support the needs of parents and which interventions are most beneficial to
enhance parental sensitivity and
infant attachment remains a matter of debate.