Expanding the Reach of Preventive Interventions: Development of an Internet-based Training for Parents of Infants
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2008
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Child Maltreatment
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There are major obstacles to the effective delivery of mental health services to poor families, particularly for those families in rural areas. The rise of Internet use, however, has created potentially new avenues for service delivery, which, when paired with the many recent advances in computer networking and multimedia technology, is fueling a demand for Internet delivery of mental-health services. We report on the adaptation of a parenting program for delivery via the Internet, enhanced with participant-created videos of parent-infant interactions and weekly staff contact, which enable distal treatment providers to give feedback and make decisions informed by direct behavioral assessment. This Internet-based, parent-education intervention has the potential to promote healthy and protective parent-infant interactions in families who might not otherwise receive needed mental health services. (Author Abstract)
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prevention, child abuse, parenting, parent-child interaction
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Feil, E. G., Baggett, K. M., Davis, B., Sheeber, L., Landry, S., Carta, J. J., & Buzhardt, J. (2008). Expanding the Reach of Preventive Interventions Development of an Internet-Based Training for Parents of Infants. Child maltreatment, 13(4), 334-346.