How Early Head Start Home Visitors Foster or Impede Shared Decision-Making with Families

Attachment relationships in Early Head Start families.

The remarkable papers in this Special Issue underscore the importance of applied research on families in poverty, the opportunities to developmental science of the Early Head Start National Research and Evaluation Project, and the mutual benefits from collaborations between research scientists and program practitioners. This commentary highlights the insights of these papers concerning the cons...

Early Head Start Benefits Children and Families

TThe national evaluation conducted by Mathematica Policy Research, Inc., and Columbia University’s Center for Children and Families, in collaboration with the Early Head Start Research Consortium, found that 3-year-old Early Head Start children performed significantly better on a range of measures of cognitive, language, and social-emotional development than a randomly assigned control group. I...

Choosing an adult foster home or a nursing home: residents' perceptions about decision making and control.

Representative samples of 260 Oregon foster care residents and 179 cognitively intact nursing home residents were queried retrospectively about the nature and circumstances surrounding their decision to move to a foster care or nursing home, including the alternatives they considered, the circumstances leading to the move, their perception of the decision-making process and who influenced it, t...

Shared Decision Making or Paternalism?

tered the term, “shared decision making” (SDM) for the first time. It was in a paper that stated that a doctor needs to use SDM before instituting an antipsychotic drug with a “black box warning” to treat psychotic symptoms in people with dementia with Lewy bodies (DLB). DLB is a variant of Parkinson’s disease (PD) in which dementia precedes motor signs, whereas PD with dementia starts with mot...

Early Head Start Home Visitor's Identification of Risk for Maltreatment