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- AN EXAMINATION OF ADOLESCENT MATERNAL–INFANT ATTACHMENT RELATIONSHIP OUTCOMES FOLLOWING A FIRSTPLAY® THERAPY INFANT STORYTELLING-MASSAGE INTERVENTION: A PILOT STUDY.
- Creator
- Baldwin, Karen M., Thompson, Heather, Florida Atlantic University, School of Social Work, College of Social Work and Criminal Justice
- Abstract/Description
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Adolescent mothers experience many factors that affect their ability to securely attach to their infants and are therefore considered a high-risk population. In addition, infants of adolescent mothers are at an increased risk of developing insecure attachment. FirstPlay® Therapy Infant Storytelling-Massage is an attachment-based, parent–infant adjunctive play therapy model founded on the theoretical underpinning of attachment theory. The current study implemented a one-time intervention with...
Show moreAdolescent mothers experience many factors that affect their ability to securely attach to their infants and are therefore considered a high-risk population. In addition, infants of adolescent mothers are at an increased risk of developing insecure attachment. FirstPlay® Therapy Infant Storytelling-Massage is an attachment-based, parent–infant adjunctive play therapy model founded on the theoretical underpinning of attachment theory. The current study implemented a one-time intervention with an adolescent mother population in a group home setting. A pretest/posttest design was utilized to measure the impact of FirstPlay® Therapy on the variables of an adolescent mother’s levels of maternal attachment and comfort with physical touch. Participants in this study (N = 5) were adolescent mothers ages 18–21 years old, who were recruited from four maternity group homes in two counties in South Florida. Five adolescent mothers completed the FirstPlay® Therapy for pre and posttest data. No significant differences were found in the areas of maternal attachment and predisposition to touch before and 2 weeks after the intervention. There were some significant relationships found among the demographic variables specific to an adolescent mother’s history of employment status and her child welfare history as well as the age of the mother and the age of her infant. In addition, at posttest, a significant relationship was found between the sex of the infant and the total score on the PCAQ. Although no statistically significant findings were presented, recommendations for further research include extending this intervention to a broader population of adolescent mothers across a variety of settings to focus on early infant-attachment relationships.
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- 2020
- PURL
- http://purl.flvc.org/fau/fd/FA00013451
- Subject Headings
- Adolescent mothers, Teenage mothers, Mother and infant, Play therapy
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- Document (PDF)
- Title
- The lived experience of being a teenage mother.
- Creator
- Serey, Alice M., Florida Atlantic University, Beck, Cheryl
- Abstract/Description
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One out of every ten women aged 15-19 in the United States becomes pregnant each year, yet few studies have been conducted to determine what is important to the teenage mother. The purpose of this study is to develop a structural description of the lived experience of being a teenage mother. Six teenage mothers who attended a teen parent program in a local high school were interviewed. Using Giorgi's method of interpretation for phenomenological studies, a general description of the lived...
Show moreOne out of every ten women aged 15-19 in the United States becomes pregnant each year, yet few studies have been conducted to determine what is important to the teenage mother. The purpose of this study is to develop a structural description of the lived experience of being a teenage mother. Six teenage mothers who attended a teen parent program in a local high school were interviewed. Using Giorgi's method of interpretation for phenomenological studies, a general description of the lived experience of being a teenage mother was developed. Actual quotations from the interviews are utilized to illustrate the themes which emerged and possible resolutions and implications for further nursing research discussed.
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- 1992
- PURL
- http://purl.flvc.org/fcla/dt/14836
- Subject Headings
- Teenage pregnancy, Pregnancy--Psychological aspects, Teenage mothers
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- Document (PDF)
- Title
- Efficancy of a parenting component in a teen parent program in Broward County, Florida.
- Creator
- Bessell, Stephanie Joan, Florida Atlantic University, Urich, Ted R.
- Abstract/Description
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This study took place during the 1990-1991 school year and involved 58 pregnant and parenting teenage participants between 14 and 19 years of age living in north Broward County, Florida. It evaluated the effectiveness of a parenting program by comparing performance of two groups on the Adult and Adolescent Parenting Inventory (AAPI). The experimental group consisted of 39 (out of a potential pool of 139) public high school students. The 39 students of the study completed one full semester at...
Show moreThis study took place during the 1990-1991 school year and involved 58 pregnant and parenting teenage participants between 14 and 19 years of age living in north Broward County, Florida. It evaluated the effectiveness of a parenting program by comparing performance of two groups on the Adult and Adolescent Parenting Inventory (AAPI). The experimental group consisted of 39 (out of a potential pool of 139) public high school students. The 39 students of the study completed one full semester at a special center. The study's control group consisted of 19 teen parents who were non-treatment participants with similar demographic and descriptive profiles. The study also determined which of the subject variables of home environment, age, parenting status, reading level, and grades earned in coursework were correlated significantly with experimental group posttest performance in the AAPI's constructs of empathy, expectations, physical punishment, role modeling, and with a composite total score. Using analysis of variance (ANOVAS), there were no differences on three constructs (empathy, physical punishment and role modeling) between the experimental and control groups. Significant differences between groups were found in the parental expectation and total composite construct. Stepwise regression was used with Florida Atlantic University's Vax using SPSSX for correlations of independent variables with experimental group posttest performance. The parental expectations construct was not significantly correlated with any independent variables. Significantly correlated variables at the.05 level included the "Child Development" class grade with the dependent variables of posttest total composite score, physical punishment, and role modeling. At the.01 level, the "Child Development" grade also significantly correlated with the empathy posttest score. The reading level was significantly correlated with the empathy and physical punishment constructs. Treatment/control group long-term performance paralleled research indicating that participation in programs designed to offer support to teenage mothers was related to positive caregiving styles (Dunst, Vance, & Cooper, 1986). Brooks-Gunn (1991) also found that second-generation teen parents who had been participants in parenting programs were likely to have attained higher levels of education and to have had fewer of their children taken from them 17 years later (Brooks-Gunn, 1991).
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- 1993
- PURL
- http://purl.flvc.org/fcla/dt/12329
- Subject Headings
- Parenting
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- Document (PDF)
- Title
- Effectiveness of a multidisciplinary program on pregnancy outcomes for an adolescent population: A comparative study.
- Creator
- Adam, Barbara J., Florida Atlantic University, Hektor, Lynne M.
- Abstract/Description
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The high rate of adolescent pregnancies and births in the United States has had an extensive impact on individual, family, community, and national issues related to health and economics. Teenagers, many of whom are already of lower socioeconomic status, are at risk for preterm birth and low birth weight, as well as incomplete use of available services. This inquiry used a retrospective comparative research design to evaluate the effectiveness of Project Teen in Palm Beach County, Florida....
Show moreThe high rate of adolescent pregnancies and births in the United States has had an extensive impact on individual, family, community, and national issues related to health and economics. Teenagers, many of whom are already of lower socioeconomic status, are at risk for preterm birth and low birth weight, as well as incomplete use of available services. This inquiry used a retrospective comparative research design to evaluate the effectiveness of Project Teen in Palm Beach County, Florida. Project Teen is a multidisciplinary program offering a continuum of support services to pregnant adolescents and newly parenting adolescents and their infants until the infants are 2 years old. Through frequent contacts, home visitation, resource referral, counseling, and education the health care professionals collaborate with the clients to facilitate clients' choices which will maximize families' health potential. Home visitation by care coordinators and senior community health nurses was positively related to pregnancy, family health, and family socioeconomic outcomes.
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- 1996
- PURL
- http://purl.flvc.org/fcla/dt/15248
- Subject Headings
- Teenage pregnancy, Maternal health services, Teenage mothers--Family relationships, Nursing models
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- Document (PDF)
- Title
- Mother-adolescent conflict and relationship quality in youth with and without behavior problems.
- Creator
- Prata, Paloma Lopez, Laursen, Brett, Florida Atlantic University
- Abstract/Description
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Adolescence is a period of significant changes in relationships with mothers, specifically parent-adolescent conflict increases from childhood into adulthood. The present investigation is designed to address these differences by using adolescent and mother reports of conflict and relationship quality. The investigation addresses four research questions. (1) Do characteristics of conflict with mothers differ for adolescents with and without clinical problems? (2) Do perceptions of mother-child...
Show moreAdolescence is a period of significant changes in relationships with mothers, specifically parent-adolescent conflict increases from childhood into adulthood. The present investigation is designed to address these differences by using adolescent and mother reports of conflict and relationship quality. The investigation addresses four research questions. (1) Do characteristics of conflict with mothers differ for adolescents with and without clinical problems? (2) Do perceptions of mother-child relationship quality differ for adolescents with and without clinical problems? (3) Do family characteristics moderate differences between clinical and nonclinical youth in motherchild of conflict? (4) Do family characteristics moderate differences between clinical and nonclinical youth in mother-child relationship quality? The results demonstrated that the clinical group reported more conflicts, greater affect, and less post-conflict interaction than those of the nonclinical group. The clinical group reported higher negativity than the nonclinical group. In addition, levels of positivity were higher for the nonclinical group than for the clinical group.
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- 2006
- PURL
- http://purl.flvc.org/fau/fd/FA00000812
- Subject Headings
- Mother and child, Child psychopathology, Interpersonal relations in adolescence, Adolescent psychology, Parent and teenager--Cross-cultural studies, Identity (Psychology)
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- Document (PDF)
