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Posters Advancing Comprehensive Early Childhood Intervention
Session 3
HEALTH Topic - Mental Health
p3.26 A Scan of Early Childhood Mental Health Services and Interventions for Children from 0 to 5 in Borrowing Member Countries of Latin America and the Caribbean of the Inter-American Development Bank Presenting Author: Neal Horen (USA) Affiliation: Georgetown University Thrive Center for Children, Families, and Communities Co-Author: Jennifer Drake-Croft At the request of the Inter-American Development Bank, the Thrive Center for Children, Families, and Communities at Georgetown University conducted a study focusing on how early childhood mental health is defined, what interventions are being delivered, and how they are being measured for children aged 0–5 in Latin American and Caribbean countries that are borrowing members of the Inter- American Development Bank (IDB). The study aimed to identify, analyze, and evaluate existing programs and policies addressing early childhood mental and behavioral health across the region and provide recommendations in those areas. The research followed a four-step process: (1) conducting a comprehensive review of published and grey literature; (2) developing key informant interviews with national and program-level stakeholders; (3) analyzing the collected data; and (4) creating a policy paper. This poster presents the successes, challenges, and actionable recommendations derived from the study. It highlights a nuanced understanding of early childhood mental health in IDB-borrowing countries, offering evidence-based insights to inform future research, policies, and interventions in Latin America and the Caribbean. p3.27 Supporting Parent Emotional Well-Being in Parent Mediated Intervention Presenting Author: Kathleen Baggett (USA) Affiliation: Georgia State University Co-Authors: Ana Fonseca, Chloe Holbrook To address recent calls for attending to parent emotional well-being within parent-mediated interventions, this poster presents results and lessons learned from 3 experimental studies of the effects of brief intervention on the emotional well-being of mothers of infants. The three presentations provide a compelling case for the importance and viability of embedding brief parent-focused emotional well-being interventions within parent-mediated approaches. Many diverse families at high need for very early parent- mediated intervention are unable to access and engage in these approaches because they do not fit into their lives in accessible ways, and they fail to martial parent emotional resources for engagement. This presentation will highlight parent-emotional well- being approaches that overcome common barriers that prevent parents at high need from engaging in early parent-mediated interventions to improve infant developmental outcomes. The poster reports effects of a brief app-based intervention, BeAMom, for improving emotional well-being within a diverse sample of 1420 mothers of infants receiving well-baby care during the first 3 months postpartum in Portugal. The poster highlights a study of an app-based, remote coaching intervention, Mom and Baby Net, to improve maternal mood within a parent-mediated approach to promoting infant social-emotional development in a sample 180 infants and mothers with depression who primarily identified as Black/African American in the United States. The poster also showcases a single subject design study of Mom and Baby Net with minoritized mothers and their infants who had a sibling with autism in the U.S.
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