Tuesday, March 15, 2011

What is Developmental Care?

Where did it come from?

-Development Care began in the 1980s with Dr. Heloise Als as Newborn Idividualized Developmental Care and Assessment Program (NIDCAP).

What organizations support Developmental Care?

- Several formalized programs exist for Developmental Care: NIDCAP, NAPI, Brazelton, APIB.

- There is little formalized research on developmental care as most now recognize it as best practice and there is no research to validate the efficacy of one method versus another.

So what exactly is Developmental Care?

-Supports and infant’s natural posture.
-Provides the least disruption to an infant’s inborn mechanisms for self-stabilization.
-Maximizes the role of the parents in an ainfant’s care while hospitalized.
- Reduces the risk of known sequelae associated with the care provided for at risk infants.
- Enhances the neuro development of infants by recognizing the needs and cues they exhibit.
- Is individual to each infant and family.

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