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Bayley N (1969)
Bayley Scales of Infant Development
I. Chasnoff, D. Griffith, Catherine Freier, James Murray (1992)
Cocaine/polydrug use in pregnancy: two-year follow-up.Pediatrics, 89 2
Barnard KE (1978)
Nursing Child Assessment Feeding Scales
D. Hofkosh, J. Pringle, H. Wald, J. Switala, S. Hinderliter, S. Hamel (1995)
Early interactions between drug-involved mothers and infants. Within-group differences.Archives of pediatrics & adolescent medicine, 149 6
American Psychiatric Association (1987)
Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders, Revised Third Edition
Fiese BH Sameroff AJ (1990)
Handbook of Early Childhood Intervention
A. Sameroff, B. Fiese (1990)
Transactional regulation and early intervention.
Caldwell BM (1978)
The Home Observation for Measurement of the Environment Inventory: Birth to Three Years
Abstract THE Article by Hofkosh and colleagues1 in this month's Archives is important primarily because of the approach that underlies its null results. Although this study had no control group, it makes a contribution by presenting a different and much needed way of looking at prenatal exposure to drugs. Children of drugabusing mothers recently have been described in the lay press by expressions such as "without the human emotions of empathy," "so hyperactive as to be unmanageable in the regular classroom," and doomed to become "sociopaths." Medical professionals can bring these assumptions and judgments to the care of families with a substance-abusing parent, compromising their ability to see the individual strengths and needs of parents and children. In the study by Hofkosh et al,1 the strengths of many of the mothers and children are evident. For the 144 cocaine-abusing mothers and their infants, the mean developmental score of References 1. Hofkosh D, Pringle JL, Wald HP, Switala J, Hinderliter SA, Hamel SC. Early interactions oetween drug-involved mothers and infants: within-group differences . Arch Pediatr Adolesc Med . 1995;149:665-672.Crossref 2. Barnard KE. Nursing Child Assessment Feeding Scales . Seattle, Wash: Nursing Child Assessment Satellite Training Publications; 1978. 3. Caldwell BM. The Home Observation for Measurement of the Environment Inventory: Birth to Three Years . Seattle, Wash: Nursing Child Assessment Satellite Training Publications; 1978. 4. Chasnoff L, Griffith D, Freir C, Murray J. Cocaine/polydrug use in pregnancy: two-year follow-up . Pediatrics . 1992;89:284-289. 5. Bayley N. Bayley Scales of Infant Development . New York, NY: The Psychological Corp; 1969. 6. Sameroff AJ, Fiese BH. Transactional regulation and early intervention . In: Meisels SJ, Shonkoff JP, eds. Handbook of Early Childhood Intervention . Cambridge, England: Cambridge University Press; 1990:119-149. 7. American Psychiatric Association. Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders, Revised Third Edition . Washington, DC: American Psychiatric Association; 1987.
Archives of Pediatrics & Adolescent Medicine – American Medical Association
Published: Jun 1, 1995
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