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The problem
Intervention: Mother's intentional use of the 'Serve and Return' model of interaction with her infant daughter, supported through researcher guidance and reflective practice
Who it was tested with: One mother-infant dyad in Malta, with child aged 10-24 months.
Experience from people who deliver programmes: stories, case studies and lessons learned. Valuable for understanding how and why, and for spotting what to test next, but not a measure of effect.
"The work is framed within Bowlby's attachment theory, postcolonial theory, and a child's rights lens. It draws on data from a fourteen-month study: the mother's reflective journal, transcriptions of recordings interactions, and monthly video-recorded analytic discussions between the researcher and the mother." This represents a longitudinal case study design tracking one mother's intentional implementation of serve-and-return interactions and documenting the resulting changes in interaction patterns and child participation.
Single case study with no comparison group; unclear whether outcomes would replicate with other mothers or in different cultural contexts; no standardized measures of child development or interaction quality reported
Across countries and designs
1 study · 1 country
