Full Description
It is universally accepted that sensitive and responsive caregiving leads to positive cognitive and socio-emotional outcomes for children. While several intervention approaches exist, this text brings together the rationale and current evidence base for one such approach—the Mediational Intervention for Sensitizing Caregivers (MISC).
MISC integrates aspects of socio-emotional health and cognitive development as well as being less culturally intrusive than existing approaches. It is a strengths-based program complementing existing practices and cultures. Editors bring together in one volume the theory and research from the last decade supporting the MISC approach. Chapters focus on a range of topics, such as training the trainer, maternal depression and MISC, applying MISC to families reunited after migration-related separation and more. The book also focuses on several country-specific cases, such as applying MISC to HIV/AIDS-affected children in South Africa or in early childhood care settings in Israel.
This book is essential reading for those working in early educational or clinical settings tasked with developing policy to ensure optimal child developmental outcomes. The book is applicable to professionals from a wide variety of disciplines including clinical, counselling, educational, psychology, psychiatry, paediatrics, nursing, social work and public health.
Contents
1. The Mediational Intervention for Sensitizing Caregivers: A pathway to resilience 2. An introduction to the MISC interventional model 3. MISC training program (MISC-TP) 4. Considerations for implementing MISC in Early Childhood Education Care settings 5. Mothers' mediation in book reading activities through the lens of the MISC model: Relation to SES and children's early literacy 6. Using early caregiver training to enhance the neurodevelopment of very young, vulnerable African children exposed to or living with HIV 7. The Mediational Intervention for Sensitizing Caregivers to enhance the neurodevelopment of children to prevent Konzo disease 8. The Mediational Intervention for Sensitizing Caregivers for community-based organizations to address the needs of orphans and vulnerable children (OVC) in South Africa 9. Mediational intervention for sensitizing caregivers of toddlers with sensory processing and self-regulation disorders 10. Caregivers with Borderline Personality Disorder: The promise of MISC 11. Maternal depression and MISC in low- and middle-income countries 12. MISC applied to families reunited after migration-related separation 13. The Mediational Intervention for Sensitizing Caregivers for mothers and children exposed to Intimate Partner Violence 14. Considerations for implementing MISC as part of asset-based community development 15. Negotiating with and situating MISC within context-specific nuances for sustainable use
