Not exact matches
Meta - analyses of this expanded research base confirm the model's impacts on a range of risk and protective factors associated with child
maltreatment.7, 8,9 In addition, all of the major home visitation models in the U.S. are currently engaged in a variety of research activities, many of which are resulting in better defined models and more rigorous attention to the key issue of participant enrolment and retention, staff training and quality assurance standards.10 For example, recent findings emerging from the initial two - year
follow - up of the
Early Head Start National Demonstration Project confirm the efficacy of home visitation programs with new parents.
With
Early Milestones Colorado's help, communities have been engaged in an eight - month local participatory planning process to develop local child
maltreatment prevention plans and promote family well - being by completing the
following tasks, as outlined in the framework:
In humans, the end product of the HPA axis is cortisol, a steroid hormone that
follows a diurnal rhythm — increasing
early in the morning, peaking approximately 30 minutes after waking, and declining throughout the day, reaching near - zero levels at night.14 This diurnal pattern is not present at birth but begins to emerge around 3 months of age15, 16 and is fully entrained to daylight cycles by age 2 years.17 Children experiencing social deprivation or
maltreatment show departures from this typical profile of diurnal HPA activity, suggestive of chronic stress.
Specifically, they argue that
early changes in brain structure and function
following exposure to childhood
maltreatment may instantiate increased latent vulnerability to addictive behavior in adolescence and adulthood [30 •].
We focused on families
followed across
early childhood, because infants and toddlers are at the greatest risk of exposure to neglect (the most prevalent type of child
maltreatment), and this period spanning the transition to parenthood presents heightened risk for IPV.