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Measures of mother-child interaction change are reported in a series of 30 mothers and their children, aged 2 to 10. Videotaped play sessions were analyzed in detail to provide baseline measures from which individualized modification guidelines were derived. Mothers were instructed in eight weekly sessions via bug-in-the-ear. Postinstruction observations provided quantification of observed changes following instruction. The target of change was mother-child behavior contingency patterns, effected by intervening into the mother component on those patterns. Measured changes in mother and child behaviors, mother-child contingency patterns, and mothers' perceptions of child behaviors are compared.
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This study was supported by grant 19642 from the National Institute of Mental Health. The authors acknowledge with gratitude the collaboration of Herbert C. Wimberger, M.D., in the preliminary stages of this research.
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Kogan, K.L., Gordon, B.N. A mother-instruction program. Child Psych Hum Dev 5, 189–200 (1975). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF01433679
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