Deborah W. Hamby

TL;DR: A meta-analysis of 47 studies investigating the relationship between family-centered helpgiving practices and parent, family, and child behavior and functioning is reported, showing that the largest majority of outcomes were related to help Giving practices.

TL;DR: The authors investigated the extent to which the influences of family-systems intervention practices could be traced to variations in parent-child interactions and child development by meta-analytic structural equation modeling (MASEM) procedure for producing a weighted pooled correlation matrix and fitting a structural equation model to the patterns of relationships in the data.

TL;DR: In this article, a survey of nearly 3300 parents of infants, toddlers, and preschoolers with or at risk for developmental delays was conducted to ascertain the sources of naturally o...

TL;DR: For example, the authors found that learning opportunities that were interesting, engaging, competence-producing, and mastery-oriented were associated with optimal child behavioral change, and the importance of these learning opportunities for early intervention practices is discussed.

TL;DR: The relationship between different models of family level interventions and two components of practitioner helpgiving (relational practices and participatory practices) was examined in two studies of parents of young children involved in different kinds of family oriented helpgiving programs as discussed by the authors.