EFFECT OF IMPROVING CAREGIVING ON EARLY MENTAL HEALTH

这个项目的目的是通过实验来提高稳定性和一致性 并对他们进行培训，使他们更具社会响应性 俄罗斯圣彼得堡的婴儿之家适合发展 出生到4岁，并观察这种改善的照顾的后果 关于早期心理健康，包括被领养到美国的儿童的身体发育、智力/发育和社会情感成长 将干预后婴儿院内儿童的发育情况与 基线信息，婴儿之家正在接受培训，但没有人员配备变化，以及 没有接受任何干预的婴儿之家。收养儿童的长期进展 将与来自同一家庭的未接受治疗的儿童进行比较， 从圣彼得堡其他婴儿之家领养的孩子，在家抚养的美国人 儿童，也许还有明尼苏达州未经挑选的外国领养儿童。

The intent of this project is to experimentally improve the stability and consistency of caregiving staff and to train them to be more socially responsive and developmentally appropriate in a St. Petersburg, Russia, baby home for children birth to 4 years, and to observe the consequences of such improved caregiving on early mental health, including the physical development, mental/developmental and social-emotional growth of the children who are adopted into the U.S.A. The development of children within the intervention baby home will be compared with baseline information, a baby home receiving training but no staffing changes, and a baby home receiving no intervention. Longer-term progress of children adopted into the USA will be compared with non-treated children from the same homes, adopted children from other St. Petersburg baby homes, home-reared American children, and perhaps unselected foreign adopted children in Minnesota.