FIRST‐GENERATION LATINA MOTHERS’ EXPERIENCES OF SUPPLEMENTING HOME‐BASED EARLY HEAD START WITH THE ATTACHMENT AND BIOBEHAVIORAL CATCH‐UP PROGRAM - Aparicio_et_al-2016-Infant_Mental_Health_Journal.pdf

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• he parent coach delivered content to the mothers and supported interactions between the mothers and their babies, with mothers and the mother–infant dyad being the focus of each session.

• ther fam- ily members were directly invited to join in if they were interested in participating.

• the ABC program] focus more on the mother and the parent and the child . . . . Early Head Start, well . . . they’re trying to teach you tools to teach her and your [own tools as a parent are] different.

• The first goal of the current project was to examine the feasi- bility of supplementing federally funded, home-based Early Head Start (EHS) services with the ABC program

• The second goal was to explore first-generation Latina mothers’ experiences of re- ceiving both home-based EHS and the ABC.

• Child-Parent Psychotherapy, the Circle of Security program, and ABC

• 10 home-based sessions led by a trained parent coach.

• intensive and provides explicit parent coaching in reference to three behavioral targets: (a) nurturance, (b) following the child’s lead with delight, and (c) reducing frightening caregiving behavior.

• mproving parenting behaviors, infant attachment security, and child stress regulation at both behavioral and physiological levels

• “in the moment” (ITM)

• The most common reason was hear- ing from other mothers about the benefits of the program.

• (a) expanding their children’s vocab- ulary and early reading skills and (b) getting out of their homes to spend time with other EHS mothers and children during socializa- tion activities.

• social support

• staff turnover

• negotiating the home visitor’s plan for the visit versus what the baby was willing and able to do at that time due to loss of interest, fussiness, or illness.

• learning to follow the child’s lead rather than the mother leading activities during interactions with her baby.

• instruction and support in reading their children’s cues for nurturance and for a desire to explore

• how we have to be responsive to our children and offer them this, this, this love, this attention that children need.

• Connecting their values about parenting and parenting behav- iors to their own childhood experiences was another area of great importance to the mothers in the study

• to not agree with voices from the past