Adolescent mothers and their infants: A home-based crisis prevention effort

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Adolescent mothers were recruited from a local hospital and from a local social service agency to participate with their newborn infants in a home visitation program. Broad curriculum components for the home visits included: increasing maternal sensitivity and responsivity to infant cues, offering activity ideas for infants and their mothers, helping parents to learn the importance of secure infant attachment, and supporting parents' own strengths and ideas. Using Fraiberg's techniques, the home visitor encouraged mothers to reflect on their thoughts about their infants, themselves, and parenthood. Forty-six adolescent mother-infant pairs were randomly assigned to either a control group or to an experimental group. Experimental group mothers received weekly home visits for three months. A post-program follow visit was made two months after program end. Control group participants received three visits: at program entry, immediately post program, and two months post program. Feeding, pla

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