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Challenges of home visitor interventions with adolescent mothers and their infants

✍ Scribed by Lucile M. Ware; Joy D. Osofsky; Alice Eberhart-Wright; Maria Luisa Leichtman


Publisher
John Wiley and Sons
Year
1987
Tongue
English
Weight
739 KB
Volume
8
Category
Article
ISSN
0163-9641

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✦ Synopsis


Issues in designing a home visitor intervention and research program for 130 adolescent mothers, 17 and under, and their infants from birth to 30 months are discussed. The overall project is described, and various aspects of creating and maintaining a home visitor intervention program are discussed, including: (I) Issues and problems that arise with the integration of a home visitor intervention component into an ongoing health department program; (2) the recruitment and training of lay home visitors in the context of arduous, often disheartening work; (3) issues of supervision and quality control faced by the mental health consultants; (4) coping with potential stresses and dangers faced by the home visitors;

(5) assisting and maintaining maximum communication for the research components of the study to be successful. RESUME: Cet article parle des problemes qui se posent dans I'organisation d'un programme de recherche et d'intervention domicile pour 130 meres adolescentes, de 17 ans et moins, et pour leurs enfants de la naissance a I'ige de 30 mois. Ce projet global est decrit, et differents aspects de la creation et due maintien d'un programme d'intervention a domicile sont abordks dont: 1) les probkmes qui se posent avec I'integration d'un elkment d'intervention a domicile dans un programme de santt dejk en cours; 2) le probltme du recrutement et de la formation de visiteurs a domicile dans le contexte d'un travail ardu et couvent decourageant; 3) le probleme de la surveillance et du contrble de qualite pose aux travailleurs en santte mentale; 4) le probleme post par la ntcessite de venir a bout du stress et des dangers qui confrontent les visiteurs a domicile; 5) I'aide et le maintien d'une communication maximale pour que les composantes de recherche de l'ttude soient couronnees de succes.


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