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Showing 1 to 20 of 22 for “"home visiting"”.
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Home Visitors' Conceptions of Effective Practice in Home Visiting
A mixed-method design was used to investigate home visitor conceptions on effective home visiting during a video-based professional development intervention. Home visitors (N = 5) employed by an Early Head Start-Home Based Option (EHS-HBO) program each recorded 8-14 of their home visits and met …
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Home Visiting with Justice System Involved Women: A Qualitative Study
… study was to investigate one Early Head Start-Home Based Option program and their home visiting work with pregnant incarcerated women. The study explored the experience in services, support and barriers encountered by pregnant incarcerated women receiving home visiting services. Method: Study …
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A formative evaluation of the parent infant home visiting programme
Background The Parent-Infant Home Visiting Programme (PIVHP) is a home-based parenting programme targeted at new and expectant mothers, characterised as vulnerable. Participants are recruited from low-income communities situated on the Cape Flats, in Cape Town, South Africa. The programme consists …
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A descriptive study of the nature of mothers' involvement in a parent-infant home visiting programme
… of their experience of a local parent-infant home visiting programme were described. Research has shown positive results for home visiting programmes which are being implemented increasingly throughout the world. International and local research on home visiting programmes, psychodynamic …
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Centering and Advancing Health Equity within a Federal Maternal and Child Health Initiative: A Case Study of the Maternal, Infant, and Early Childhood Home Visiting Program
<p dir="ltr">Adverse maternal and child health outcomes affect women and infants across all racial and ethnic populations, with a disproportionate burden of loss among Black and Indigenous families. The study presents racial and ethnic disparity data. The intent is not to imply there is a White …
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Participant Engagement in Home Visits: A Missing Piece in the Puzzle of Evidence Based Programs and Implementation Science?
… attention to the concept of `evidence based' home visiting program models. However, a singular focus on evidence based programs continues a tradition of limited and vague understandings of how programs are actually implemented.</p><p>The field of implementation science offers a framework for …
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Keeping Safe: Field Public Health Nurses' Perceptions
… providing nursing care to individuals in their homes (Bureau of Labor Statistics, 1997). There is limited empirical data available on the issue of safety of nurses within the context of home visiting or in the public health venue. Recent research on safety in home visiting has focused on home …
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Evaluating the training and supervision of home visitors in a Parent-Infant Home Visitation Programme
The training and supervision of home visitors for the Parent Centre's Parent-Infant Home Visitation Programme (PIHVP) was evaluated. The evaluation aimed to determine whether training and supervision prepared the home visitors to deliver the PIHVP as intended. The supervision questionnaire measured …
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A theory-driven evaluation of an early childhood school readiness programme in an under-served area in the Western Cape Province
… for the Family in Focus (FiF) programme. This home-based early education programme that is targeted at young children between the ages of 0-6 years, who live in poor and marginalised communities where access and resources for care and stimulation are limited, was the programme of interest. A …
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Impact of Parent Reported Adverse Experiences and Other Family Stressors on Child Development and Home Visitation Participation Among Immigrant Families
… health as well as level of participation in home visitation among recent immigrant families according to reports of adverse experiences (including poverty, intimate partner violence (IPV), and prior history of child protective services (CPS) involvement), maternal depression, and parent–child …
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Parent education in family literacy programs: a mixed methods study
… used by the Parent as Teachers program through home visiting and/or playgroup models. Specifically, the Parents as Teachers program influenced parents’ parental knowledge, parenting efficacy, and parental behaviors. Quantitative data were collected through surveys using questions from the …
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An evaluation of the SACLA Rehabilitation Worker project in Cape Town, South Africa, 1992-1993
This dissertation reports on an evaluation of the home visiting programme of the SACLA Rehabilitation Worker project against the background of the socio-economic context of the community and the history of the project. The evaluation had two aims. Firstly, it aimed to highlight the programme's …
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Creating a coordinated community response to domestic violence: a program and policy guide for community leaders
… a few notable exceptions (e.g. mandatory arrest, home visiting nurse programs, and re-socialization education), single interventions have not significantly reduced domestic violence. After decades of experience, it appears that more comprehensive, integrated interventions are required to eliminate …
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Linking Hostile/Helpless Maternal Representations in Pregnancy and Later Child Protection Involvement: A Pilot Study
… Minding the Baby® (MTB) attachment-supportive home-visiting intervention currently underway in the United Kingdom. The adapted HH system was used to code 13 pregnancy narratives of mothers whose infants were removed from custody due to maltreatment within 2 years of childbirth, and 13 pregnancy …
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An Investigation into the Transformation of Transnational Identities of Chinese Students with Study-Abroad Experiences
… experiences abroad; the second, on their home-visiting experiences. In the second phase, through a complementary data collection method, document review, I explored how the participants positioned their identities on social media by investigating their posts on WeChat, which was ubiquitous …
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Understanding the experiences of community hospice volunteers : a narrative analysis
… this perceived gap in knowledge by exploring how visiting dying people affects community hospice volunteers’ experiences, and their attitudes towards death and dying. The thesis is a qualitative study using audio-recorded interviews with 16 volunteers, recruited from four independent hospices, …
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One step forward, two steps back: Making change in Early Head Start
<p>This is a field study of families and home visitors in Early Head Start. Its purpose is to understand the social context of infants born into poverty and to understand the home visiting relationship when families receive intervention services from home visitors who are socially and economically …
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Predicting Emotion Regulation in Early Childhood: The Impact of Maternal Well-Being, Infant Crying, and Dyadic Mutuality
… stress, especially during the postpartum period. Home visiting programs that offer support and education in the postpartum period can help reduce parental stress and improve parental perceptions and parent-child interactions.</p>
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Perceptions of the home-based counseling experience: Preparation and ethics
Home-based counselors experience demands, obstacles, and opportunities not present for office-based counselors. The literature reveals that many counselors do not feel adequately prepared to conduct therapy outside of the traditional office setting. The purpose of this study is to help fill this …
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Professional development including performance feedback to support home visitors' use of caregiver coaching strategies during home visits
… a six week performance feedback package on the home visitors' use of specific caregiver coaching strategies and range routines utilized during home-based intervention. The second purpose was to examine the extent to which the home visitors' use of coaching practices related to changes in parent …
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