Healthy Families

In the article, Effects of Healthy Families New York on the promotion of maternal parenting competencies and the prevention of harsh parenting, the main purpose is to evaluate a home visiting program and how it relates to child abuse and neglect (). The Healthy Families New York program promotes positive parenting and allows for the parent/child relationship to be founded in healthy habits. This study is used to see the effectiveness on the child’s development over time. Healthy Families America (HFA) is a program that trained individuals go into homes when the family is expecting or are new parents to give them the guidance to implement healthy happens at the beginning of their child’s life. These habits will become apart of the child’s life from birth and then the child will already have the habits needed to develop properly. This study examines how the prevention of child abuse and neglect are related to the Healthy Families New York. The participants were selected by random to do this study and see the effects on their family’s issues with child abuse and neglect. Cognitive stimulation and maternal responsively are two major factors of positive parenting.
The number of visits they had before been randomized ranging from zero visits to forty-five visits. The way in which this study was conducted was by interview and observation of the mother and the child. The tasks that they would ask to complete were to promote different parenting behaviors and child responses. The tasks would include activities for the mother and child to do together, separately, and then mother was asked to parent their child to complete the task by their self. The observations were then coding by their maternal behavior context. Then, the coding was