Summary report of the Learning Session: HIV Exposed Children and Early Child Development on March 7, 2019. The report includes descriptions of the opening remarks by Thomas Coates, UCLA DGSOM, presentations by featured guests, and closing remarks. The presentations include background context, summary, and discussion points.
Oral presentation by Catherine Sandhofer at the Learning Session: HIV Exposed Children and Early Child Development on March 7, 2019 that discusses the impact of parent-child interactions in child development. The presentation describes a large variation in language environments that affects development and the positive results in the mathematical ability of children due to frequency of math talk between mothers and preschoolers.
Oral presentation by Lisa Bohmer at the Learning Session: HIV Exposed Children and Early Child Development on March 7, 2019 that discusses the 5 year strategy of The Conrad N. Hilton Foundation which is to identify, test, and deliver program approaches that have the potential to improve developmental outcomes of all children affected by HIV and AIDS in Kenya, Malawi, Mozambique, Tanzania, and Zambia. They are currently supporting efforts to field test approaches to improve care giving and child development outcomes as part of health systems and within local communities, with focus on areas with high HIV prevalence.
Skills building intervention that aims to begin to establish rapport with the parent, to elicit the parent’s perspective regarding the child’s main challenges and goals for improvement, and to identify and reduce practical and psychological barriers to participation.
This course is designed to equip you with the skills and knowledge necessary to perform your role as a Mentor Mother. You will learn about various aspects of maternal care during pregnancy, and about infant and child care following birth. You will also learn important counselling and communication skills so that you are able to deal with sensitive and difficult situations in your day to day work. To strengthen your ability to listen to, communicate with, and counsel the women in the communities effectively.
The CTS is designed so that it can obtain data on all possible dyadic combinations of family members. Possible CTS combinations include husband-to-wife violence/conflict, wife-to-husband violence/conflict, parent-to-child violence/conflict and child-to-parent violence/conflict. Originally developed by Straus (1979), the CTS is a widely used (over 70,000 empirical studies have used it) and thoroughly evaluated (approximately 400 papers) measure of interpersonal aggression in married or cohabitating relationships.
This scale measure global HIV competence. This scale asks questions related to discussing your illness with adolescent child(ren), being isolated by others directly as a result of your illness, and having family show they care about your illness. Developers: Center for Community Health, Semel Institute-Neuropsychiatric Institute (NPI) of the University of California, Los Angeles.
The CHIP is a 45-item instrument designed to measure parents’ response to management of family life when they have a child who is seriously and/or chronically ill. Items for the CHIP were developed by use of items from previous research in family stress and from theory from several areas pertinent to families and health.