Prevention and Early Intervention with Children in Need by Michael Little Kevin Mount

Author:Michael Little, Kevin Mount [Michael Little, Kevin Mount]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: Social Science, Sociology, General
ISBN: 9780429825071
Google: nHd0DwAAQBAJ
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2018-10-26T03:43:30+00:00

Ina Bakker, Kees Bakker, Anke van Dijke and Linda Terpstra, o+o=o2, Nederlands Instituut vor Zorg en Welzijn, Utrecht, 1997 90-5050-555-4

In each of the examples given, the intention is to educate parents. The Hawaii project uses professionals and combines the intervention with an individual plan for each family, monitored by a social worker. In the Netherlands the emphasis has been on home visits, talking to parents about how they interact with their children. The approach has been called the social learning of parenting skills; it is aimed at the modification of parenting and has had demonstrable benefits. A well-known exponent is Gerald Patterson in Oregon, whose work is described in the section dealing with social and anti-social behaviour.

The effects of these interventions are not fully understood. In the case of the Dutch initiatives there was a variable response. The mobility of high risk populations, particularly those from minority ethnic backgrounds, led to uneven take-up of the service and high drop-out rates. Moreover, the variable level of support within a family (whether there was one parent or two, whether or not help was available from other relatives or friends) tends to be as important a consideration as the level of support from outside.

Instapje and Opstapje appear to have increased the quality of support given to the children and this, in turn, has led to some small but significant improvement in terms of child development. However, research does not show that parent-child relationships benefit from the intervention. Opstap resulted in more contact between mothers and their children’s schools which had a knock-on effect of improved behaviour in school. The Hawaii initiative had the more specific aim of reducing levels of child maltreatment and available evidence suggests considerable success in this respect: children exposed to the programme are reported to have been maltreated five times less frequently than other high risk cases.

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