Supporting New Parents through Home Visits: Effects on Mother-Infant Interaction.

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Administrators; Practitioners

Early Intervention; Home Programs; Home Visits; Infants; Interaction; Interpersonal Communication; Low Income Groups; Mothers; Paraprofessional Personnel; Parent Child Relationship; Parent Education; Social Support Groups

0271-1214

Paraprofessionals provided informal social support to 92 low-income parents during pregnancy and for a year afterward. Mother-infant interaction was better at four months in the home-visited families than in controls, especially with teen and Hispanic mothers. Positive and irritable or fearful mothers appeared to benefit more than passive or intrusive mothers. (Author/JDD)

1991

EJ425660