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Building practice evidence for parent mentoring home visiting in early childhood
- Author:
- ZAJICEK-FARBER Michaela L.
- Journal article citation:
- Research on Social Work Practice, 20(1), January 2010, pp.46-64.
- Publisher:
- Sage
This research look at a multidisciplinary preventive parent mentoring intervention programme that was applied through home visiting with high-risk families receiving well-baby health care. Two separate implementation of study were employed - a quasi-experimental non-equivalent group design, and a randomised control group experiment. A multivariate repeated-measures design compared intervention and control families from both implementations on parenting outcomes, and logistic regressions were used to examine children’s outcomes. The authors noted that compared to controls, intervention families significantly improved their family resources, parental skills, parental practices, and maternal resilience, and that intervention status significantly predicted children’s immunisation and early language skills. This paper suggests that parent mentoring anchored in multidisciplinary approach with empirically informed practices may be a desirable intervention addressing the multifaceted developmental needs of very young children. Finally, implications for social work practice are addressed, including examining the organisational characteristics of intervention implementations and comparing other relevant outcome, their measurement process, and short and long-term impacts can further build practice evidence.
Promoting good health in adolescents with disabilities
- Author:
- ZAJICEK-FARBER Michaela L.
- Journal article citation:
- Health and Social Work, 23(3), August 1998, pp.203-213.
- Publisher:
- Oxford University Press
The recent attempts to implement the 1990 Americans with Disabilities Act underscore the necessity for promoting good health in adolescents with disabilities. The article addresses the reasons why this concern has not been recognized and explores the concepts of good health, habilitation and the effects of assistance in encouraging independence for youths with developmental disabilities.
Comparing service use of Early Head Start families of children with and without disabilities
- Authors:
- ZAJICEK-FARBER Michaela L., et al
- Journal article citation:
- Journal of Family Social Work, 14(2), March 2011, pp.159-178.
- Publisher:
- Taylor and Francis
- Place of publication:
- Philadelphia, USA
In the United States, the Early Head Start (EHS) aims to ensure that children from low-income families have good health, strong families and positive early learning experiences. It helps promote positive child development for the very young. This research compared patterns of service utilisation reported by EHS families of children with and without disabilities by secondary analysis of data from the longitudinal investigation of the effectiveness of EHS. Two hundred and eleven families who had data on their disability and services at 7, 16 and 28 months participated. Results indicated comparable positive trends for both groups of families for receipt of services corresponding to EHS performance standards promoting child and family development, family support, and health care. Service challenges remain in the low use of dental services overall and the higher use of acute health care services for children with disabilities. The authors conclude that further research is required to investigate causes and outcomes of service uptake.
Connections among parental mental health, stress, child routines, and early emotional behavioral regulation of preschool children in low-income families
- Authors:
- ZAJICEK-FARBER Michaela L., MAYER Lynn M., DAUGHTERY Laura G.
- Journal article citation:
- Journal of the Society for Social Work and Research, 3(1), 2012, Online only
- Publisher:
- Society for Social Work and Research
Reducing parenting stress and enhancing engagement in child routines are theorised as two important factors for improving effects that maternal depression has on young children's development. This study investigated the connections among parental mental health, stress, and engagement in child routine activities with children's emotional regulatory competence. Data was drawn from 2,977 children, aged 3 and below, enrolled into the federally funded national Early Head Start Research and Evaluation project (1996-2001). Findings revealed that maternal depression indirectly but significantly impacted children's development. Parenting stress mediated the connection to parental engagement in child bedtime routines and to children's regulatory competence. Parental engagement in child bedtime routines partially mediated the influence of parenting stress. The results imply that although parents may be reluctant to seek professional help to address mental health difficulties for themselves, reducing parental stress and encouraging engagement in shared bedtime routines offers benefits to children's regulatory competencies.