Trial reportChild maltreatment2017
Effects of the ABC Intervention on Foster Children's Receptive Vocabulary: Follow-Up Results From a Randomized Clinical Trial.
Trial report in Child maltreatment, 2017. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 18 papers, 2 of them syntheses that pooled it.
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18 citing papers in PubMed, 2 syntheses or guidelines pooled it.
- Effectiveness of Attachment-Based Interventions for Maltreated Children's Well-Being: A Systematic Review.Clinical child and family psychology review · 2026Pooled it
- Positive Parenting and Early Childhood Cognition: A Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis of Randomized Controlled Trials.Clinical child and family psychology review · 2023Pooled it
- Improving social-emotional competence in internationally adopted children with the Attachment and Biobehavioral Catch-up intervention.Development and psychopathology · 2021Trial
- Increasing secure base script knowledge among parents with Attachment and Biobehavioral Catch-up.Development and psychopathology · 2021Trial
- Enhancing diurnal cortisol regulation among young children adopted internationally: A randomized controlled trial of a parenting-based intervention.Development and psychopathology · 2020Trial
- Sustained effects on attachment security in middle childhood: results from a randomized clinical trial of the Attachment and Biobehavioral Catch-up (ABC) intervention.Journal of child psychology and psychiatry, and allied disciplines · 2020Trial
- Enhancing the language development of toddlers in foster care by promoting foster parents' sensitivity: Results from a randomized controlled trial.Developmental science · 2019Trial
- Early Parenting Intervention and Adverse Family Environments Affect Neural Function in Middle Childhood.Biological psychiatry · 2019Trial
- Maternal separation increases anxiety-like phenotypes, fear responses, and altersNeurobiology of stress · 2026Article
- PICU associated social-emotional adversity in early childhood cancer patients: consequences in neurodevelopment and mental health.Frontiers in oncology · 2026Review
- Precursors and Effects of Self-reported Parental Reflective Functioning: Links to Parental Attachment Representations and Behavioral Sensitivity.Child psychiatry and human development · 2025Article
- Interventions for pre-school children in foster care: A systematic review of randomised controlled trials of child-related outcomes.JCPP advances · 2025Article
- Prenatal Social Determinants of Health: Narrative review of maternal environments and neonatal brain development.Pediatric research · 2024Review
- Early emotional caregiving environment and associations with memory performance and hippocampal volume in adolescents with prenatal drug exposure.Frontiers in behavioral neuroscience · 2023Article
- Attachment goes to court: child protection and custody issues.Attachment & human development · 2022Article
- Early life stress and brain function: Activity and connectivity associated with processing emotion and reward.NeuroImage · 2020Review
- Adverse caregiving in infancy blunts neural processing of the mother.Nature communications · 2020Article
- Using Drama Therapy to Enhance Maternal Insightfulness and Reduce Children's Behavior Problems.Frontiers in psychology · 2020Article
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Abstract
Children with histories of maltreatment and disruptions in care are at elevated risk for impairments in early language development, which contribute to difficulties in other developmental domains across childhood. Given research demonstrating associations between parent responsiveness and children's early language development, we examined whether a parenting intervention administered in infancy improved preschool receptive language skills in children involved with the child welfare system. Attachment and Biobehavioral Catch-up (ABC) is a 10-session intervention that aims to enhance parent-child interactions. The follow-up results of this randomized clinical trial demonstrated that infants who received the ABC intervention ( n = 24) scored significantly higher on a test of receptive vocabulary at age 36 months than infants who received a control intervention ( n = 28). These results provide evidence of the critical role of parental responsiveness in supporting optimal language development among young children with histories of child welfare involvement.
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