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Promoting Birth Parents’ Relationships with their Toddlers upon Reunification: Results from Promoting First Relationships® Home Visiting Program
Birth parents, once reunified with their child after a foster care placement, are in need of in-home support services to prevent reoccurrence of maltreatment and reentry into foster care, establish a strong relationship with their child, and enhance child well-being. Few studies have addressed the efficacy of home visiting services for reunified birth parents of toddlers. This study reports on the findings from a randomized control trial of a 10-week home visiting program, Promoting First Relationships® (), for a subsample of 43 reunified birth parents that were part of the larger trial. We describe how the elements of the intervention align with the needs of parents and children in child welfare. Although the sample size was small and most of the estimates of intervention effects were not statistically significant, the effect sizes and the pattern of results suggest that the intervention may have improved both observed parenting sensitivity and observed child behaviors as well as decreased parent report of child behavior problems. Implications are that providing in-home services soon after a reunification may be efficacious in strengthening birth parents’ capacity to respond sensitively to their children as well as improving child social and emotional outcomes and well-being.
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机译:出生父母一旦被安置在寄养机构后与子女团聚,就需要家庭支持服务,以防止再次发生虐待和重返寄养机构,与子女建立牢固的关系并增进子女的幸福感。很少有研究探讨过家访服务对幼儿统一出生父母的功效。这项研究报告了一项为期10周的家庭探访计划的随机对照试验的结果,该试验是Promoting First Relationships ® sup>()的一部分,该样本来自43个统一出生的父母,这是较大试验的一部分。我们描述了干预的要素如何与父母和孩子在儿童福利方面的需求相吻合。尽管样本量很小,并且大多数干预效果的估计值在统计上都不显着,但效果量和结果模式表明,干预措施可能改善了观察到的父母教养敏感性和观察到的孩子行为,并减少了孩子的父母报告行为问题。这意味着在团圆后不久提供家庭服务可能有效地增强了亲生父母对子女做出敏感反应的能力,以及改善了子女的社会和情感成果及幸福感。
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