Use of Maternal Language in the Clinical Assessment of the Mother-Infant Dyad: A Case Study.

Autor/in	Proctor, Adele
Titel	Use of Maternal Language in the Clinical Assessment of the Mother-Infant Dyad: A Case Study.
Quelle	(1984), (35 Seiten) PDF als Volltext kostenfreie Datei Verfügbarkeit
Beigaben	Tabellen
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Monographie
Schlagwörter	Attachment Behavior; Behavior Patterns; Case Studies; Child Neglect; Communication Skills; Evaluation Methods; Failure to Thrive; Infants; Language Styles; Mothers; Nonverbal Communication; Parent Child Relationship; Parenting Skills + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Attachment; Bindungsverhalten; Case study; Fallstudie; Case Study; Kindesvernachlässigung; Kommunikationsstil; Infant; Toddler; Toddlers; Kleinkind; Sprachstil; Mother; Mutter; Non-verbal communication; Nonverbale Kommunikation; Parents-child relationship; Parent-child-relation; Parent-child relationship; Eltern-Kind-Beziehung
Abstract	To examine clinical implications for using maternal language as a dimension of assessment and intervention, a linguistic and behavioral analysis was completed on a mother suspected of neglect during interaction with her 5-month-old failure-to-thrive infant. Results of the videotaped sample were compared to previous research on maternal language and a second mother addressing her medically ill infant. The verbal language of the mother suspected of neglect differed in sentence form, word content, and communicative and rhythmical aspects of speech believed to convey affect. In addition, her nonverbal behaviors differed in proximity and holding patterns. The failure-to-thrive infant's communicative behavior, compared to the second infant, differed in amount and quality of vocalization, gaze, and smile. Clinical implications are discussed, including the need to examine parent-to-child language in terms of rhythmical or prosodic patterns, endearing terms, rate of production, use of commands, exclamations, rising-falling pitch patterns, amount of pause time allowed the child, and word types. Also noted is the importance of identifying positive signalling behaviors in the infant that may encourage maternal interaction. (CL)
Erfasst von	ERIC (Education Resources Information Center), Washington, DC
Update	2004/1/01