Watch, Wait, and Wonder (WWW)
Program/Intervention Name
Category
Family Functioning, Parenting Skills - Training and Enhancement
Program/Intervention Description
Child led psychotherapeutic approach that specifically and directly uses the infant's spontaneous activity in a free play format to enhance maternal sensitivity and responsiveness, the child's sense of self and self-efficacy, emotion regulation, and the child-parent attachment relationship. The approach provides space for the infant/child and parent to work through developmental and relational struggles through play. The process engages the parent to be reflective about the child's inner world of feelings, thoughts, and desires through which the parent recognizes the separate self of the infant and gains an understanding of her own emotional responses to her child. Unique because it focuses on the verbal partner, which is the infant
Intervention Target Population Identified (Age Group)
0-5, Parent/Adult
Program Goals/Outcomes
1) strengthening the attachment relationship between caregiver and child, 2) improve the child's self-regulating abilities and sense of efficacy and enhance the caregiver's sensitivity
QIC Target Group
Both Target 1 and Target 2
QIC Adoption/Guardianship Relevance Levels
LEVEL 5: Other Human Services
QIC level of Evidence
LEVEL 3: Emerging Practice
Intervention Web Site/URL
Contact Person/Purveyor
Agency/Affiliation
Contact Email
Contact Phone
External Links (Registry/Other Catalog)
- California Evidence-Based Clearinghouse: www.cebc4cw.org/program/watch-wait-and-wonder
