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Efi Stolarski; Dina Cohen; Chaviva Deitcher-Mizrachi; Avi Sagi-Schwartz – Early Child Development and Care, 2024
The present study explored the association between the structural quality of child care, caregivers' sensitive responsiveness, children's involvement in play and activity in the setting, and children's expression of aggression. Eighty-four early childhood care settings were classified into either high (29) or low structural quality (55) based on…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Child Caregivers, Child Care, Child Behavior
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Rabinowitch, Tal-Chen; Klein, Pnina; Atira, Gila; Ben-Eliezer, Ruhama – Early Child Development and Care, 2022
Infants and toddlers spend a substantial amount of their time in out-of-home care, and are thus being tended to not only by their mothers but also by their caregivers. It is therefore of considerable importance to study the effects of caregiver-infant compared to mother-infant interactions. To address this issue, first, various variables of…
Descriptors: Caregiver Child Relationship, Parent Child Relationship, Mothers, Interaction
Shohet, Cilly; Jaegermann, Nurit – Zero to Three (J), 2012
The Mediational Intervention for Sensitizing Caregivers (MISC) model is a comprehensive developmental approach to help adults understand their role in child development by enhancing the quality of adult-child interactions. This article describes how the Irving B. Harris Program for Infants, Toddlers and Their Families at Bar-Ilan University…
Descriptors: Early Intervention, Mental Health, Foreign Countries, Child Caregivers
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Klein, Pnina S.; Kraft, Ravit R.; Shohet, Cilly – Early Child Development and Care, 2010
Despite the abundance of research on attachment and on the effects of separation, very little research examines the actual processes of separation occurring daily when mothers leave their children (age 6-18 months) in out-of-home group care. In the current study, this everyday process of separation was observed for three months…
Descriptors: Mothers, Infants, Toddlers, Child Caregivers
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Rosenthal, Miriam K. – Early Childhood Research Quarterly, 1991
Examined the relationship of caregivers' beliefs and behavior to personal and professional background and work environment. Studied the quality of care in family day care homes in Israel in terms of the caregiver's behavior. With the exception of the attribution of influence, caregivers' beliefs were not related to their background or work…
Descriptors: Beliefs, Child Caregivers, Child Development, Family Day Care
Reifel, Stuart, Ed. – 1994
This volume looks at three different broad topics that are of continuing interest for early education and care. The first part of the volume furthers the view of children's acquisition of literacy and how that acquisition takes place. The second part addresses preparation of professionals in early childhood education. The third part provides…
Descriptors: Caregiver Training, Child Caregivers, Child Rearing, Comparative Analysis
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Klein, Helen Altman – Early Childhood Research Quarterly, 1991
Compared the relationship of temperament to adjustment in Israeli and American early childhood group care centers. Cross-cultural differences in the ideals held by caregivers and their judgment of actual children were found. The relationship between temperament and adjustment differed between the two groups. Suggested that the "fit"…
Descriptors: Adjustment (to Environment), Behavior Standards, Behavioral Objectives, Child Caregivers