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The effects of an interdisciplinary infant stimulation—parent education intervention program upon infant development
Author(s) -
Derevensky Jeffrey L.,
WasserKastner Esta
Publication year - 1984
Publication title -
infant mental health journal
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.693
H-Index - 75
eISSN - 1097-0355
pISSN - 0163-9641
DOI - 10.1002/1097-0355(198421)5:1<1::aid-imhj2280050102>3.0.co;2-u
Subject(s) - psychology , intervention (counseling) , infant development , developmental psychology , session (web analytics) , test (biology) , bayley scales of infant development , parent education , child development , parent training , clinical psychology , cognition , psychiatry , psychomotor learning , paleontology , world wide web , computer science , biology
An eight month infant‐stimulation/parent‐education program was presented to mother‐child dyads participating in one of three types of classes: a structured twenty‐two session group, an unstructured twenty‐two session group, or a structured eleven session group. Infants (2–15 months) in all intervention groups as well as those from a control group were tested three times (pre‐test, mid‐test, post‐test) during the course of the program using the Bayley Mental Test of Infant Development and the Uzgiris‐Hunt Ordinal Scales of Psychological Development. Results tend to indicate that the intervention strategy was an effective method of parent education in enhancing infant gains on developmental indices. The results are discussed in relation to a preventative psychotherapeutic model.