Question 1
Which of the following strategies would be the most effective for promoting infant attachment in a low income, African American family?
◦ providing home visits by professionals to model attachment behaviors
◦ encouraging breastfeeding
◦ providing front-carriers to promote body contact
◦ providing a set of attachment games to be played by parents with their infants in the home
Question 2
A parent asks you whether center-based child care is harmful for a young infant. Which of the following would be the most accurate and helpful response?
◦ Research on the effects of infant care are mixed; what is likely most important is the
quality of center-based infant care.
◦ Infant care before six months usually disrupts the attachment process, at least in the short run; infant care after this age has been found to have no negative effects.
◦ Infant care has a negative effect on attachment for children of color or those living in poverty; these effects are not usually found among Euro-American children.
◦ Infant care has not been found to have any lasting negative effects; in fact, it can promote cognitive development.
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