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Wilson, Karol; Robinson, Claire; Donahue, Amber; Hall, Michele; Roycraft, Nancy; Barron, Carla – ZERO TO THREE, 2019
Partnering With Parents, an infant mental health (IMH) intervention program at Starfish Family Services (SFS), is dedicated to improving social-emotional outcomes, supporting wellness, and strengthening relationships between infants and families. Families served by SFS experience a myriad of societal, community, and relational stressors that can…
Descriptors: Infants, Mental Health, Mental Health Programs, Parents
Stover, Carla Smith – ZERO TO THREE, 2015
Millions of children witness intimate partner violence (IPV) in their homes each year, and large percentages of those children are infants and toddlers. Children often continue to live with or have frequent visits with their fathers following IPV. Social services agencies rarely provide services to target the father-child relationship beyond…
Descriptors: Fathers, Parent Child Relationship, Family Violence, Attachment Behavior
Ellison, James R. – ZERO TO THREE, 2014
The First Steps Domestic Violence Program (First Steps) was developed to address the mental health needs of infants and toddlers entering a domestic violence shelter. When domestic violence occurs, the primary caregiver's ability to help restore a sense of safety for the infant--through regulation of the infant's emotions, sleep, arousal, and…
Descriptors: Family Violence, Infants, Toddlers, Environmental Influences
Narayan, Angela J.; Atzl, Victoria M.; Merrick, Jillian S.; River, Laura M.; Peña, Rachel – ZERO TO THREE, 2019
Clinical research during the pregnancy period is maximally beneficial for participants if it is positive, inclusive, and therapeutic. We describe our ongoing study of ethnically diverse, low-income pregnant women and fathers-to-be that leverages participants' benevolent childhood experiences (BCEs) and promotes insight to counteract mental health…
Descriptors: Low Income, Resilience (Psychology), Intimacy, Pregnancy
Fletcher, Richard; St. George, Jennifer; May, Chris; Hartman, Deborah; King, Andrew – ZERO TO THREE, 2015
Because fathers are clearly important to family well-being, including fathers in services for families seems a straightforward idea. How hard can it be? Yet across health, education, and welfare services it is still mothers who attend and engage on behalf of their infants and children. The Family Action Centre, located on the east coast of…
Descriptors: Fathers, Foreign Countries, Well Being, Welfare Services
Mays, Markita; Lieberman, Alicia F. – ZERO TO THREE, 2013
The impacts of violence for young children and their caregivers are multidimensional. The story of 2-year-old Tyronne, his mother, Josephine, and his father, James, illustrates the use of a relationship-focused treatment, child-parent psychotherapy (CPP), in addressing the traumatic consequences of exposure to violence. This family's story…
Descriptors: Mothers, Fathers, Psychotherapy, Parent Child Relationship