Tag: Philip Fisher

The quality of early parent-child interactions has a powerful influence on early brain development.
In light of emerging literature associating responsive caregiving behaviors with children’s cognitive and socio-emotional development, recent prevent initiatives have aimed to promote responsive parenting behaviors through caregiver interventions . Promising preliminary evidence from the Filming Interactions to Nurture Development (FIND) intervention reveals that promoting the quality of parent-child interaction may enhance both parent functioning and child development, but the mechanism(s) of change underlying these improvements has not been directly evaluated. A limited number of studies have employed micro-social coding measures to quantify responsive caregiving behaviors on a moment-to-moment scale, and even fewer have investigated the downstream effects of these caregiving behaviors on child language outcomes. The two primary goals of this study were to 1) evaluate whether FIND significantly increases the frequency of balanced, reciprocal interaction and 2) examine the relationship between pre-post changes in dyadic reciprocity and child language outcomes. The results of this study support promoting parental contingent responsiveness as a viable intervention target and presents an innovative framework to examine latent effects of pre-post change across an intervention period.