Beeber Linda S, Chazan-Cohen Rachel, Squires Jane, Jones Harden Brenda, Boris Neil W, Heller Sherryl S, Malik Neena M
University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.
U.S. Department of Health and Human Services.
Infant Ment Health J. 2007 Mar;28(2):130-150. doi: 10.1002/imhj.20126.
One planned consequence of the national Infant Mental Health Forum held in the United States in 2000 was the funding of five research projects conducted in Early Head Start (EHS) programs. Each project strengthened existing programs by integrating infant/toddler mental health approaches and testing the outcomes on infant/toddler development, behavior, and parent-child interactions. In two of the projects, the effect of offering enrichment for EHS staff was tested. The other three projects tested the effect of services offered directly to parents and children. This article describes the five projects and the theories, methods, and outcome measures used. In order to understand more fully the elevated risk factors in these families and the consequences for mental health in their infants and toddlers, a common set of measures was developed. Data have been used to explore the common threats to mental health and the factors that moderate the impact on infants and toddlers.
2000年在美国举行的全国婴幼儿心理健康论坛的一个预期成果是为在早期开端计划（EHS）项目中开展的五个研究项目提供资金。每个项目通过整合婴幼儿心理健康方法并测试对婴幼儿发育、行为和亲子互动的影响，来加强现有项目。在其中两个项目中，测试了为EHS工作人员提供强化培训的效果。另外三个项目测试了直接向家长和儿童提供服务的效果。本文描述了这五个项目以及所使用的理论、方法和结果测量指标。为了更全面地了解这些家庭中升高的风险因素以及对其婴幼儿心理健康的影响，制定了一套通用的测量指标。已利用数据来探究心理健康的常见威胁以及减轻对婴幼儿影响的因素。
