Journal
JOURNAL OF ADOLESCENT HEALTH
Volume 51, Issue 2, Pages S17-S22Publisher
ELSEVIER SCIENCE INC
DOI: 10.1016/j.jadohealth.2012.05.005
Keywords
Attachment; Cognitive flexibility; Early intervention; Executive function; Foster care; Parenting; Preschool; Theory of mind
Funding
- National Institute of Mental Health [52135, 84135, 74374]
- Edna Bennett Pierce
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Young children who experience early adversity are at risk for problems regulating emotions, behavior, and physiology, which in turn place them at risk for later psychopathology, school problems, and peer relation difficulties. Therefore, early parenting interventions are critical in helping this vulnerable population develop adequate self-regulatory capabilities. Attachment and Biobehavioral Catch-up (ABC) is an intervention developed to help parents learn to behave in ways that enhance young children's self-regulatory capabilities. In the present study, we found that preschool-aged foster children who had received the ABC intervention showed stronger cognitive flexibility and theory of mind skills, relative to foster children who had received a control intervention. Foster children who had received the ABC intervention showed capabilities in these areas that were not significantly different from a comparison group of children who were never in foster care. These findings are promising in suggesting that the ABC intervention enhances the development of foster children's self-regulatory capabilities. (C) 2012 Society for Adolescent Health and Medicine. All rights reserved.
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