Este estudo objetivou conhecer e compreender como foi constituída a percepção que os adolescentes têm da parentalidade recorrente na adolescência. Para compreender o significado desta experiência e a relação com seus projetos de vida utilizei-me do método qualitativo com enfoque na Fenomenologia Social. Foram realizadas 15 entrevistas com cinco pais e dez mães que haviam experienciado a parentalidade recorrente com as seguintes questões norteadoras: Como foi para você ser mãe/pai pela primeira vez? Como aconteceu o nascimento do outro filho? Como é ser mãe/pai mais de uma vez, ainda adolescente? O que você espera do futuro sendo mãe/pai tão jovem? Dos depoimentos emergiram cinco categorias concretas do vivido: Contextualizando a percepção sobre ser pai/mãe adolescente, que implicou na construção de duas subcategorias: sendo pai/mãe pela primeira vez e sendo pai/mãe mais de uma vez; Vivenciando perdas; Vivenciando ganhos, com duas subcategorias: sentindo-se amadurecidos /responsáveis e expressando satisfação com a parentalidade; Buscando segurança para o futuro e Experienciando situação ambivalente. O estudo permitiu compreender que a parentalidade adolescente recorrente é um fenômeno complexo, multifacetado, de inesgotável possibilidades perpceptivas, cujas diversas vivências são dependentes do contexto social que define os desejos, os projetos, as possibilidades e significações nas distintas classes sociais. Com este entendimento numa relação face a face, de intersubjetividade, respeitando a singularidade dos adolescentes, o enfermeiro tem uma situação de destaque no que se refere ao assistir/cuidar desta clientela, centrado na dimensão humana /existencial. / The goal of this study was to know and understand how the perception adolescents have of the recurring parenthood during adolescence was constituted. To comprehend the meaning of this experience and the relation with their life projects the qualitative method was used, focusing the social phenomenology. Fifteen interviews were carried out with five fathers and ten mothers who had experienced the recurring parenthood as an unveiling strategy of the phenomenon, using the following directive questions: How did you feel becoming a first-time mother/father? How did the birth of another child take place? How does it feel to be a mother/father more than once, still being an adolescent? What do you expect of the future, being such a young mother/father? Five concrete categories of the experienced surfaced from the subjects\' statements: Contextualizing the perception about being an adolescent mother/father – with two subcategories: being a first-time parent and being a parent more than once; Experiencing losses; Experiencing gains – with two subcategories: feeling more mature/responsible and expressing satisfaction with parenthood; Seeking safety for the future; and Experiencing an ambivalent situation. The study allowed the understanding that recurring adolescent parenthood is a complex, multi-faceted phenomenon, with endless perceptive possibilities, of which the diverse experiences depend on the social context that defines wishes, projects, possibilities and meanings through the distinct social classes. Based on this understanding during a face-to-face relationship of intersubjectivity, respecting the adolescents\' singularity, the nurse plays a very important role as regards assisting/taking care of this clientele, centered on the human/assisting dimension.

Este estudo objetivou conhecer e compreender como foi constituída a percepção que os adolescentes têm da parentalidade recorrente na adolescência. Para compreender o significado desta experiência e a relação com seus projetos de vida utilizei-me do método qualitativo com enfoque na Fenomenologia Social. Foram realizadas 15 entrevistas com cinco pais e dez mães que haviam experienciado a parentalidade recorrente com as seguintes questões norteadoras: Como foi para você ser mãe/pai pela primeira vez? Como aconteceu o nascimento do outro filho? Como é ser mãe/pai mais de uma vez, ainda adolescente? O que você espera do futuro sendo mãe/pai tão jovem? Dos depoimentos emergiram cinco categorias concretas do vivido: Contextualizando a percepção sobre ser pai/mãe adolescente, que implicou na construção de duas subcategorias: sendo pai/mãe pela primeira vez e sendo pai/mãe mais de uma vez; Vivenciando perdas; Vivenciando ganhos, com duas subcategorias: sentindo-se amadurecidos /responsáveis e expressando satisfação com a parentalidade; Buscando segurança para o futuro e Experienciando situação ambivalente. O estudo permitiu compreender que a parentalidade adolescente recorrente é um fenômeno complexo, multifacetado, de inesgotável possibilidades perpceptivas, cujas diversas vivências são dependentes do contexto social que define os desejos, os projetos, as possibilidades e significações nas distintas classes sociais. Com este entendimento numa relação face a face, de intersubjetividade, respeitando a singularidade dos adolescentes, o enfermeiro tem uma situação de destaque no que se refere ao assistir/cuidar desta clientela, centrado na dimensão humana /existencial. / The goal of this study was to know and understand how the perception adolescents have of the recurring parenthood during adolescence was constituted. To comprehend the meaning of this experience and the relation with their life projects the qualitative method was used, focusing the social phenomenology. Fifteen interviews were carried out with five fathers and ten mothers who had experienced the recurring parenthood as an unveiling strategy of the phenomenon, using the following directive questions: How did you feel becoming a first-time mother/father? How did the birth of another child take place? How does it feel to be a mother/father more than once, still being an adolescent? What do you expect of the future, being such a young mother/father? Five concrete categories of the experienced surfaced from the subjects\' statements: Contextualizing the perception about being an adolescent mother/father – with two subcategories: being a first-time parent and being a parent more than once; Experiencing losses; Experiencing gains – with two subcategories: feeling more mature/responsible and expressing satisfaction with parenthood; Seeking safety for the future; and Experiencing an ambivalent situation. The study allowed the understanding that recurring adolescent parenthood is a complex, multi-faceted phenomenon, with endless perceptive possibilities, of which the diverse experiences depend on the social context that defines wishes, projects, possibilities and meanings through the distinct social classes. Based on this understanding during a face-to-face relationship of intersubjectivity, respecting the adolescents\' singularity, the nurse plays a very important role as regards assisting/taking care of this clientele, centered on the human/assisting dimension.

Adolescent mothers experience many factors that affect their ability to securely attach to their infants and are therefore considered a high-risk population. In addition, infants of adolescent mothers are at an increased risk of developing insecure attachment. FirstPlay® Therapy Infant Storytelling-Massage is an attachment-based, parent–infant adjunctive play therapy model founded on the theoretical underpinning of attachment theory. The current study implemented a one-time intervention with an adolescent mother population in a group home setting. A pretest/posttest design was utilized to measure the impact of FirstPlay® Therapy on the variables of an adolescent mother’s levels of maternal attachment and comfort with physical touch. Participants in this study (N = 5) were adolescent mothers ages 18–21 years old, who were recruited from four maternity group homes in two counties in South Florida. Five adolescent mothers completed the FirstPlay® Therapy for pre and posttest data. No significant differences were found in the areas of maternal attachment and predisposition to touch before and 2 weeks after the intervention. There were some significant relationships found among the demographic variables specific to an adolescent mother’s history of employment status and her child welfare history as well as the age of the mother and the age of her infant. In addition, at posttest, a significant relationship was found between the sex of the infant and the total score on the PCAQ. Although no statistically significant findings were presented, recommendations for further research include extending this intervention to a broader population of adolescent mothers across a variety of settings to focus on early infant-attachment relationships. / Includes bibliography. / Dissertation (Ph.D.)--Florida Atlantic University, 2020. / FAU Electronic Theses and Dissertations Collection

Understanding the adaptational responses and ecocultural niche of the Navajo adolescent mother from her perspective provides a richness of information about a little-studied population . The overall purpose of this study was to explore the ecocultural factors determined to be significant in the decision of a Navajo adolescent mother to remain in high school or drop out of high school. Thirty Navajo adolescent mothers recruited from two small reservation towns in eastern Arizona participated in the study. Navajo adolescent mothers in the study participated in a one and one half hour semistructured accommodations interview, and completed a Family Resource Scale and a Family Support Scale. An assessment tool, the Bayley Scales of Infant Development, was administered to infants and toddlers of Navajo adolescent mothers. Computation of effect sizes determined the magnitude of difference between the two groups. Findings indicated that (a) Navajo adolescent mothers who remained in high school had more family support than those who dropped out of high school, (b) Navajo adolescent mothers who remained in high school had more family resources than those who dropped out of high school, and (c) Navajo adolescent mothers who remained in high school made greater adaptations than those who dropped out of high school. An additional question focused on the relationship between Navajo adolescent mothers' current enrollment in school and the cognitive and motor performance development of their children. Findings indicated that children born to Navajo adolescent mothers in the drop-out group scored higher on both the cognitive and motor performance tests of development than those infants born to the in-school group mothers.

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Prospective analyses suggest that young mothers may not be capable of perceptually discriminating between different infant cry stimuli. The purpose of the present study was to investigate the perceptual and caregiving responses of adolescent mothers to different infant cry stimuli. Twenty-five primiparous adolescents and 39 nulliparous adolescents listened to segments of three different infant cry types that varied in the amount of high-pitched, hyperphonation contained in the acoustic structure. Participants rated their responses to the low- and high-risk cries on perceptual rating scales, and selected a caregiving behavior in response to these same cries. Analyses of Variance showed that both groups of participants perceived the infant cry segments as more arousing, annoying, distressing, loud, and sick-sounding as the amount of hyperphonation increased across cries. Results also showed that adolescent mothers did not perceive high-risk cries as more arousing, annoying, urgent, loud, and sick-sounding than adolescents who were not mothers. However, primiparous participants perceived hyperphonated and partially-hyperphonated cries as less annoying and less loud than nulliparous adolescents. This study did not find significant differences between primiparous adolescents' and nulliparous adolescents' caregiving experiences. Chi-square analyses indicated no significant differences between the participant groups' caregiving response choice frequencies to all three infant cry types. / Ph. D.

Injury is the leading cause of death and disabilityamong American children, and most injuries to children aged 1-5 years occur at home. Factors associated with increased risk for unintentional injury to young children include an overcrowded home environment, low SES, and living with a mother who is young, less educated, more emotionally overwhelmed, and less protective in her supervision, attributes characteristic of many adolescent mothers. Previous research suggests that teaching parents basic child behavior management techniques can reduce child dangerous behavior (Mathews, et al., 1987; Powers & Chapieski, 1986), but these interventions have not addressed the lack of knowledge about child development common among adolescent parents. The current study employed a multiple-baseline design across subjects to assess the impact of a 6-week in home educational and behavioral treatment. Observable home hazards, supervisory skill, maternal efficacy, parenting stress, and cognitive readiness to parent were examined in four adolescent mothers (aged 16-19), in addition to the dangerous behavior of their children (aged 16-24 months). Mothers received education about child development and sensitive parenting, as well as training in home safety and child behavior management. Child dangerous behavior and maternal supervisory skill and positive behavior were assessed in weekly 20-minute videotaped mother-child interactions. Pre- and post- measures of parenting stress, cognitive readiness to parent, and maternal efficacy related to parenting and child safety were assessed by self-reports. Treatment resulted in improvements in mother positive behavior and knowledge of child development and in reductions of parenting stress, observable home hazards, and child dangerous behavior. A 2-month follow-up revealed some minimal maintenance of treatment gains suggesting additional booster sessions are needed for longer-term gains of reduced injury risk. / Ph. D.

We performed an intervention program aimed at promoting a healthy relationship between teenage mothers and their babies, with 26 mothers between 15 and 19 years old, who have one son or daughter between 0 and 6 months old. They were from a poor area of Lima, Peru. The intervention was conducted in four groups, each of which had ten sessions. We assessed the interaction between mother and baby, the mother’s interpretation of emotions and the maternal representations (a description of the baby, of herself as a mother and of the relationship between them), before and after the program. The same evaluations were performed with a comparison group of 18 young mothers with the same characteristics. The article presents and discusses the results of both evaluations. / Se realizó un programa de intervención dirigido a promover un vínculo saludable entre madres adolescentes y sus bebes, con 26 madres entre 15 y 19 años de edad y con un hijo o hija entre 0 y 6 meses de edad de una zona pobre de Lima, Perú. La intervención se realizó en cuatro grupos y cada uno tuvo diez sesiones. Se evaluó la interacción entre madre y bebe, la interpretación que realiza la madre de los afectos, y las representaciones maternales (descripción del bebe, de sí misma como mamá y de la relación entre los dos), antes y después del programa. Se realizaron las mismas evaluaciones con un grupo comparativo de 18 jóvenes con las mismas características. En este artículo se presentan y discuten los resultados obtenidos en ambas evaluaciones.

Through the design of supportive housing for adolescent mothers and their children, this practicum project explores the existing issue of teen parenting, and the importance of a supportive environment for teen mothers. Key areas of supportive design examined in the literature review include sense of control, social support, and positive distractions. This practicum also examines the developmental and environmental needs of infants. The comprehensive literature review of the existing challenges adolescent mothers face, the Theory of Supportive Design, and child development has informed the proposed design of House 784. / February 2017