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- Title
Enhancing Intuitive Skills Among Adolescent Mothers.
- Authors
Trad, Paul V.
- Abstract
Studies indicate that adolescent mothers differ from adult mothers in their ability to interact with the infant in an adaptive fashion. In particular, teenage mothers appear to possess immature representational capacities which prevent them from predicting imminent infant achievement. As a result, they behave in a manner that undermines the emergence of new developmental skills in the infant. For example, the visual and vocal cues of adolescent mothers tend to be either subdued or absent, while holding behavior often fails to convey a sense of security. Physically punitive actions are also more common among these younger caregivers than among adult mothers. The application of a new developmental strategy referred to as previewing may, however, reverse these trends by fostering representational and interpersonal skills in adolescent mothers.
- Subjects
TEENAGE mothers; MOTHER-infant relationship; CHILD development; ADAPTABILITY (Personality); DISCIPLINE of infants; TEENAGE parents; MOTHERS; DEVELOPMENTAL psychobiology; PSYCHOLOGY
- Publication
Journal of Child & Family Studies, 1992, Vol 1, Issue 4, p351
- ISSN
1062-1024
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1007/BF01321291