An example of new approaches to innovative service delivery is Parents as Teachers @ USC Telehealth, a partnership between one
of the largest home visitation organizations in the US and a university telehealth clinic.
Not exact matches
Given the
large number
of home visiting clients at risk for developing clinical depression, Tandon and colleagues have adapted an intervention — the Mothers and Babies Course24 — for use in
home visitation as a depression prevention intervention.
Finally, a Finnish trial
of universal
home visiting by nurses35 and two U.S. programs implemented by master's degree - level mental health or developmental clinicians have found significant effects on a number
of important child behavioural problems.36, 37 Additionally, a paraprofessional
home visitation program found effects on externalizing and internalizing behaviours at child age 2; however due to the
large number
of effects measured in this study, replication
of the findings is warranted.38
Given the
large number
of home visiting clients at risk for developing clinical depression, Tandon and colleagues have adapted an intervention — the Mothers and Babies Course24 — for use in
home visitation as a depression prevention intervention.
A recent review offers ambiguous support for the relation between
home visitation and reductions in child maltreatment.2 The findings from several
large - scale
home -
visitation efforts have shown disappointing short - term results in reducing family violence and child maltreatment.4, 9 A 15 - year follow - up study
of the Elmira trial families, however, provided the first evidence from a randomized trial for the long - term effects
of home visitation on reducing child maltreatment.10 Results from the follow - up showed that nurse - visited families had half as many child maltreatment reports as families in the comparison group.
It is a
large - scale evaluation designed to investigate the features
of local programs and
of home visitation that lead to improved birth outcomes and reduced health care costs for expectant families enrolled in Medicaid or the Children's Health Insurance Program (CHIP).
Mary Ainsworth conducted research based on Bowlby's theory and devised the «Strange Situation» protocol, still used today to assess attachment style in children, as the laboratory portion
of a
larger study that included extensive
home visitations over the first year
of the child's life.