EFFECT OF IMPROVING CAREGIVING ON EARLY MENTAL HEALTH

该项目的目的是通过实验提高稳定性和一致性 培训工作人员，使他们更能对社会作出反应， 在俄罗斯彼得堡的一家婴儿之家， 出生到4岁，并观察这种改善的后果 关于早期心理健康，包括被收养到美国的儿童的身体发育，心理/发育和社会情感成长。 干预婴儿之家内儿童的发展将与 基线信息，婴儿之家接受培训，但没有人员配置变化，以及 一个不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， 从其他彼得堡婴儿之家领养的孩子，家庭抚养的美国人 孩子们，也许还有明尼苏达州的外国收养的孩子。

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.