PSYC 351 Chapter Notes - Chapter 12: Mental Model, Reinforcement, Emotional Dysregulation
10 Dec 2013
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10-20% of mothers suffer from postpartum depression. Children of mothers with ppd can have growth, developmental problems, behavioural problems. Since recovering from depression takes a long time, new approach tries to change how the mothers interact with their babies. The keys to caregiving program developed by ncast (nursing child assessment. Satellite training) is used to model nurturing behaviour by parents. Mothers are shown how best to respond to the nonverbal cues their infants give them. Mothers of 3 month old babies attended 5 weekly sessions of keys to caregiving ---> showed marked increase in their levels of interest and joy. So these kinds of programs increase infants" positive responsiveness and improves infant outcomes by helping the mother learn how she should interact with her baby the baby is the producer of his own environment. Human social behaviour is transactional- each person"s action both affect and are affected by the actions of others: theories of early social development.
