PARENT CHILD INTERACTION MODEL

DEVELOPED BY KATHRYN E. BARNARD

Group Members:
Melinda Hawley
Kathy LaPonsie
Ellen Scripsema
Hilary Edmondson
 OVERVIEW OF THEORY
Healthy child
development is Environment
• Cultrural
dependent upon the •
•
Social Support
Financial Resources

parent/caregiver • Community
Involvment

responding to signals from

the child in a loving and Interaction Child
dependable manner,
Caregiver/Parent
• Sleep patterns
• Psychosocial
• Temperment
• Physical/Mental
starting from the moment
• Physical
Health
Appearance
• Coping
•
of birth. (Qaiser, 2014).
Handicaps
• Age
• Education
 NURSING PARADIGM DEFINED

Person – to comprehend auditory, visual, and tactile stimuli; and then put
this information to good use
Health – family provides the basic preventative health care

Environment – places, people, objects, sounds, and sights

Nursing – education to facilitate changes

 THEORY ANALYSIS

Accuracy – relationship between depressed parents and child conduct

Simplicity – basic concept, children that have a stronger interaction with

parents/caregivers will have better behaviors
Scope – nursing, psychologists, sociologists, parents, educators

Acceptance – accepted throughout the world by parents, educators and

clinicians
Socio-Cultural Utility – useful across variety of cultures; may be
affected by economics, family dynamics, and support
 APPLICATION OF THE BARNARD MODEL

Care of Premature Infants

Quality parent-premie interactions
Relationship-based
Developmentally supportive
 RESEARCH
 Effectiveness of teaching parents about preterm infant cues.
 Reducing parenting stress after preterm birth.
 COPE program
 NCAST Feeding and Teaching Scales
(Chesney & Anderson, 2012)
 RESEARCH WITHOUT THE FRAMEWORK

 Could
this research have been done without the Barnard
Model?
 Howrelevant is the Barnard model to parent-child interaction
when it comes to preterm infants?
 Did this research prove the effectiveness of the Barnard Model?
 REFERENCES
 DeChesnay, M. & Anderson, B. (2012). Caring for the vulnerable (3rd ed.). Burlington,
MA: James & Bartlett Learning.