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Papers Topic - Attachment and Home Visiting Advancing Comprehensive Early Childhood Intervention P9.01 Bring the “How We Are” into “What We Do” in Home Visiting Presenting Author: Kere Hughes-Belding (USA) Affiliation: Iowa State University Co-Authors: Gina Cook, Janet Horras, Anne Plagge Affiliations: University of Northern Iowa, Weber State University, The Institute for the Advancement of Family Support Professionals
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Early childhood family support home visiting services have experienced significant changes in professional development over the last several decades. A deeper understanding of evidence-based practices, staff competencies and improvements in professional development delivery have changed the home visiting landscape. Still, there are often barriers to implementing these evidence-based practices that leave administrators, supervisors and home visitors perplexed and frustrated. This will provide space for examining what is missing. In the Infant and Early Childhood Mental Health field, Jaree Pawl is often quoted, “How we are is as important as what we do”. P9.02 Restacking the Odds: The What, Why, and How of Attachment Focused ECI for Children With a Disability or Developmental Delay Presenting Author: Stacey Alexander (Australia) Affiliation: La Trobe University, Australia Secure parent-child attachment is a cornerstone of early childhood development, positively associated with prosocial behavior, communication, and socioemotional regulation. Conversely, disorganized attachment is associated with higher risks of behavioral and mental health disorders and child maltreatment, which are all elevated concerns for children with disability or delays. Using mixed-methods research, including a systematic review, meta-analysis, survey, and in-depth interviews, the attachment patterns of children with disability or developmental delay and how they can best be supported by best practice in Early Childhood Intervention (ECI) was explored. Findings will be presented which indicated that children with a disability or delay are almost twice as likely to develop a disorganized attachment than the general population. An attachment-focused framework for ECI was developed to restack the odds for the development, well-being, and participation of children with disability or developmental delay.
Topic - Child Development
P9.12 Favorite Words for Child Development: Bringing the Ideas to Life for Young Children and Their Families Presenting Author: Peter Rosenbaum, Maria Sanders, Lori Kempe, Rachel Teplicky Affiliation: CanChild, McMaster University The Favorite Words for Child Development are built upon the World Health Organization’s International Classification of Functioning, Disability and Health (ICF) framework. First published in 2012 (Rosenbaum & Gorter), the F-words framework encourages us to consider six words that should be the focus of thinking in the field of child development: Family, Fun, Friends, Functioning, Fitness, and Future. Initial efforts to raise awareness of the F-words included development of videos, posters and tools that can be used by families, all of which are free on CanChild's F-words Knowledge Hub (www.canchild.ca/f-words). These F-words materials are now available in more than 35 languages, illustrating the international appeal of these ideas. More recently, the CanChild F-words team has partnered with parents and clinician colleagues across the world to explore how the F-words can be implemented, and the impact that this conceptual approach has on families and service delivery. In this Symposium, we will build on Dr. Rosenbaum’s keynote address and will use the Knowledge to Action Cycle to explore these implementation efforts from diverse perspectives – including a family, a clinician and implementation scientists and practitioners. Adaptations for the local context, practical strategies and lessons learned will be presented to support F-words implementation when working with young children and their families, bringing to life this strengths-based, function promoting, family-centred approach.
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