A cognitive approach to child mistreatment prevention among medically at-risk infants.

@article{Bugental2009ACA,
  title={A cognitive approach to child mistreatment prevention among medically at-risk infants.},
  author={Daphne Blunt Bugental and Alexa M. Schwartz},
  journal={Developmental psychology},
  year={2009},
  volume={45 1},
  pages={
          284-8
        }
}
The authors assessed the effectiveness of a home visitation program in enhancing the early parenting history of infants born at medical risk--a population that is at risk for mistreatment. A randomized clinical trial design was used to compare the effects of a cognitively based extension of the Healthy Start home visitation program (HV+) with a visitation condition that did not include this component (HV). In the HV+ condition, they observed (a) a lower use of corporal punishment, (b) greater… 
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