Attachment quality has been linked with later problem behaviours, with disorganized attachment especially predictive of dissociative symptoms (e.g. seeming spacey, «in a fog» etc.), 7 and internalizing and externalizing problems.6,8 - 10 A number of prevention and intervention programs have been developed that aim to
improve infant attachment quality.
Not exact matches
I was part of a team of consultants who worked with hospitals throughout southern California, offering maternal -
infant attachment and breastfeeding training as well as technical expertise to
improve the quality of breastfeeding support offered at the hospitals.
According to Bowlby,
attachment also serves to keep the
infant close to the mother, thus
improving the child's chances of survival.
Ensuring that actions to
improve infant feeding are included in all of these relevant policy areas, including obesity, diabetes and cancer reduction, emotional
attachment and subsequent school readiness,
improved maternal and child mental health and environmental sustainability
Feeding
Infants - My Son's Birthday Day 1 - First Days of Breastfeeding Day 2 - Newborn Breastfeeding Day 3 - Colostrum - Liquid Gold Day 4 - Sore Nipples Day 5 - Milk Production Begins Day 6 - Co-Sleeping and Breastfeeding Days 7 - 10 - Expressing Milk to
Improve Attachment Day 11 - Public Breastfeeding Day 12 - Cracked Nipples Week 3 - Symptoms of Mastitis
He suggested that
attachment also serves to keep the
infant close to the mother, thus
improving the child's chances of survival.
Infant massage has also shown to assist with
improving attachment and strengthening the bond between parents and their baby.
Barlow et al 27 reviewed parent —
infant psychotherapy for high - risk families with
infants aged 0 — 24 months; they found that
infant attachment improved, but they found no effects on other outcomes.
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improved infant developmental functioning, emotion regulation, and
attachment security; and enhanced parental sensitive responsiveness, confidence and feelings of efficacy.
Further evaluation is needed of the value of targeted approaches such as video - interaction guidance,
attachment - and mentalisation - based interventions, and parent -
infant psychotherapy, all of which are early interventions aimed at
improving parent -
infant / toddler interaction in high - risk families.
The project will evaluate a targeted intervention that has the potential to
improve developmental outcomes of children of depressed mothers through
improving the quality of mother -
infant interactions, parenting stress and maternal feelings of
attachment to the
infant.
Design (and evaluate) prevention and intervention programs to promote a secure parent -
infant attachment relationship in order to
improve developmental outcomes of
infants and children who are at risk for poor developmental outcomes and prevent behaviour problems and psychopathology.
Health visitors and midwives should consider evidence - based interventions such as... Video Interaction Guidance to
improve maternal sensitivity and mother -
infant attachment.
In a meta - analysis of 70 published studies (including 9,957 children and parents, and a core set of 51 randomized controlled trials with 6,282 mothers and children), Bakermans - Kranenburg, van IJzendoorn & Juffer8 demonstrated that the most effective
attachment - based interventions to
improve parent sensitivity (d = 0.33, p <.001) and promote secure
infant - caregiver
attachment (d = 0.20, p <.001) included the following characteristics: (1) a clear and exclusive focus on behavioural training for parent sensitivity rather than a focus on sensitivity plus support, or a focus on sensitivity plus support plus internal representations (e.g. individual therapy); (2) the use of video feedback; (3) fewer than five sessions (fewer than five sessions were as effective as five to 16 sessions, and 16 sessions or more were least effective); (4) a later start, i.e. after the
infant is six months or older (rather than during pregnancy or before age six months); and (5) conducted by non-professionals.
Attachment - based intervention, targeting the quality of mother -
infant interaction, has been shown to be effective in
improving maternal sensitivity, as well as child cognitive, social and emotional outcome.
Social support and home visiting interventions have been successful in
improving depressed mothers» moods and attitudes [71], [72], as well as their
infants»
attachment security and psychomotor development [46], [73].
The authors suggested that although
infant attachment is slower to
improve as a result of interventions there may be «sleeper» effects.
These provide evidence of
improved outcomes on measures relevant to
attachment and
infant regulation for fathers (Magill - Evans et al., 2006) and mothers of low socio - economic status, with
infants of normal weight (Bakermans - Kranenburg et al., 2003).
One review (Moore et al., 2007) investigated skin - to - skin contact between mother and
infant immediately post-partum and found it to be associated with a range of
improved outcomes, including mother —
infant interaction,
attachment behaviours,
infant behaviour and
infant physical symptomatology in full - term and pre-term
infants.