Effects of a Foster Parent Training Program on Young Children's Attachment Behaviors: Preliminary Evidence from a Randomized Clinical Trial.
Effects of a Foster Parent Training Program on Young Children's Attachment Behaviors: Preliminary Evidence from a Randomized Clinical Trial.
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10.1007/s10560-009-0165-1
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2009-08
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Peloso E
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Dozier M;Lindhiem O;Lewis E;Bick J;Bernard K;Peloso E
进入寄养的幼儿在维持依恋关系是一项关键的、基于生物学的任务时，会经历照顾和虐待的中断。在之前的研究中，我们发现幼儿在与新的照顾者形成依恋关系时会遇到挑战。他们往往会把新的照顾者推开，即使这些孩子特别需要悉心照顾。此外，当他们的孩子感到痛苦时，许多照顾者不会以养育的方式回应，我们发现这对寄养的幼儿来说是一个问题。我们开发了一种干预方法，旨在帮助照顾者在孩子们没有引起照顾的时候提供照顾，甚至当照顾对他们来说不是自然而然的时候。本文提出了这种干预对儿童依恋行为的有效性的初步研究结果。46名儿童被随机分配到实验干预组和教育干预组。连续三天，在三种引发痛苦的情况下报告依恋行为。父母接受实验性干预的儿童比父母接受教育干预的儿童表现出更少的回避行为。这些初步结果表明，干预在帮助儿童与新的照顾者建立信任关系方面是成功的。
Young children who enter foster care experience disruptions in care and maltreatment at a point when maintaining attachment relationships is a key, biologically based task. In previous research, we have found that young children experience challenges as they form attachments with new caregivers. They tend to push their new caregivers away, even though such children are especially in need of nurturing care. Further, many caregivers do not respond in nurturing ways when their children are distressed, which we have found is problematic for young children in foster care. We developed an intervention that is designed to help caregivers provide nurturance even when children do not elicit it, and even when it does not come naturally to them. This paper presents preliminary findings of the effectiveness of this intervention on children’s attachment behaviors. Forty-six children were randomly assigned to either the experimental intervention or to an educational intervention. For three consecutive days, attachment behaviors were reported across three distress-eliciting situations. Children whose parents had received the experimental intervention showed significantly less avoidance than children whose parents had received the educational intervention. These preliminary results suggest that the intervention is successful in helping children develop trusting relationships with new caregivers.