Enhancing Parenting Quality for Young Children Adopted Internationally: Results of a Randomized Controlled Trial.

ABSTRACT: Children adopted internationally are often dysregulated biologically and behaviorally due to prior experiences of institutional care or caregiving changes and thus are in need of enhanced parental care. The present study assessed whether parents randomized to receive Attachment and Biobehavioral Catch-up (ABC) demonstrated significant improvements in parenting quality when compared to parents receiving a control intervention. Participants were 120 internationally adopted children and their adoptive parents. Sixty-three (52.5%) of the children and 113 (94.2%) of the primary caregivers were female. Children were adopted from several countries and predominantly from China, Russia, South Korea, and Ethiopia. The majority of parents identified themselves as White/non-Hispanic (95.0%). At the st

SUBMITTER: Yarger HA 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC6635106 | biostudies-literature | 2020 May-Jun

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature