What is it?
- An attachment-based parenting program piloted in 2014 that focuses on coaching parents in nurturing especially in adverse conditions such as poverty.
- Home visits that uses “in the moment” comments from specialized coaches and video-feedback and homework (2).
- Developed primarily for low-income African-American, Hispanic, and non-Hispanic White families (4).
What were the outcomes?
- Mothers who received 10 sessions of this attachment-based parenting program revealed more supportive parenting behaviors relative to the controls (3)
- long-term benefits of ABC: decreased rates of disorganized attachment, increased rates of secure attachment among infants living with CPS-involved birth parents (1)
However, the pilot was very small, with only 11 mothers in the intervention group. More funds should go towards investing in this intervention program that presents considerable success in re-forming secure attachments in low-SES children.
- Caron, E. B., Weston-Lee, P., Haggerty, D., & Dozier, M. (2016). Community implementation outcomes of attachment and Biobehavioral Catch-Up. Child Abuse & Neglect, 53, 128–137. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.chiabu.2015.11.010
- Dozier, M., Roben, C. (2021, April). CEBC. Retrieved December 5, 2022, from https://www.cebc4cw.org/program/attachment-and-biobehavioral-catch-up/detailed
- Gadsden, V. L., Ford, M. A., & Breiner, H. (2016). Parenting matters: Supporting parents of children ages 0-8. The National Academies Press.
- Wu, J. (2021, October 14). Attachment and Biobehavioral Catch-Up. The National Child Traumatic Stress Network. Retrieved December 5, 2022, from https://www.nctsn.org/interventions/attachment-and-biobehavioral-catch
- Figure 1 and 2: abcintervention.org. (2021). Abc Intervention. abcintervention. Retrieved from https://www.abcintervention.org/.