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Maintaining a Social‐Emotional Intervention and Its Benefits for Institutionalized Children
Author(s) -
McCall Robert B.,
Groark Christina J.,
Fish Larry,
Muhamedrahimov Rifkat J.,
Palmov Oleg I.,
Nikiforova Natalia V.
Publication year - 2013
Publication title -
child development
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 3.103
H-Index - 257
eISSN - 1467-8624
pISSN - 0009-3920
DOI - 10.1111/cdev.12098
Subject(s) - intervention (counseling) , psychology , psychological intervention , st petersburg , developmental psychology , russian federation , psychiatry , geography , regional science
This article reports the maintenance of one of the largest interventions conducted in St. Petersburg (Russian Federation) orphanages for children birth to 4 years using regular caregiving staff. One orphanage received training plus structural changes, another training only, and a third business as usual. The intervention produced substantial differences between these institutions on the Home Observation for Measurement of the Environment ( HOME ) Inventory and on the B attelle D evelopmental I nventory scores for children. These institutional differences in HOME scores ( N = 298) and Battelle scores for children ( N = 357) departing the institutions for families in St. Petersburg and the United States were maintained for at least 6 years after the intervention project. This result may be associated with certain features of the intervention and activities conducted during the follow‐up interval.