Early Interventionists' Ratings of Family-Centered Practices in Natural Environments

IF 1.1 4区医学 Q3 EDUCATION, SPECIAL

Infants & Young Children Pub Date : 2021-10-01 DOI:10.1097/IYC.0000000000000203

Kimberly R. Tomeny, Pau García-Grau, R. McWilliam

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Abstract

Part C early intervention services should be family centered and occur in the context of families' natural environments and daily routines; yet research suggests that many early interventionists continue to work directly with the child and lack a full understanding of how they can implement best practices in the community. To help improve this implementation gap, discrepancy tools can be used to identify early interventionists' perspectives of their typical and ideal practices and gain knowledge of early interventionists' understanding of family-centered practices. The purpose of this study was to examine early interventionists' typical practices, ideal practices, and family consultation beliefs prior to one state's adoption of a family-centered early intervention model. Ninety-nine early interventionists completed a questionnaire examining their practices and beliefs. Results demonstrated that ratings of typical practices, ideal practices, and family consultation beliefs were relatively high overall, and early interventionists rated their typical practices only slightly lower than ideal practices. Item-level analysis, however, revealed a large discrepancy between typical and ideal ratings for the item related to working with the child versus the caregiver. Implications of our findings and recommended future directions are discussed.

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早期干预主义者对自然环境中以家庭为中心的实践的评分

C部分早期干预服务应以家庭为中心，在家庭的自然环境和日常生活中开展;然而，研究表明，许多早期干预者继续直接与儿童一起工作，对如何在社区中实施最佳实践缺乏充分的了解。为了帮助改善这种实施差距，可以使用差异工具来识别早期干预主义者对其典型和理想实践的看法，并了解早期干预主义者对以家庭为中心的实践的理解。本研究的目的是在一个州采用以家庭为中心的早期干预模式之前，检查早期干预者的典型做法、理想做法和家庭咨询信念。99名早期干预者完成了一份调查他们的行为和信仰的问卷。结果表明，典型实践、理想实践和家庭咨询信念的评分总体上相对较高，早期干预者对其典型实践的评分仅略低于理想实践。然而，项目层面的分析显示，在与孩子一起工作与照顾者有关的项目上，典型和理想的评分之间存在很大差异。我们的研究结果的意义和建议的未来发展方向进行了讨论。

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Infants & Young Children Multiple-

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1.90

自引率

9.10%

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期刊介绍： Infants & Young Children is an interdisciplinary journal focusing on vulnerable children from birth to five years of age and their families. Of special interest are articles involving innovative interventions, summaries of important research developments and their implications for practice, updates for high priority topic areas, balanced presentations of controversial issues, and articles that address issues involving policy, professional training, new conceptual models, and related matters. Although data are often presented primarily to illustrate points, some types of data-based articles may be appropriate.