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Intervention Models for Mothers and Children at Risk for Injuries

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We review risk factors commonly associated with childhood unintentional injuries and highlight adolescent mothers and their young children as a high risk group. Several intervention models of injury, including the epidemiological model, Peterson and Brown's “working model,” and the socioecological model have been proposed to explain the events that lead to injuries. Discussion of these models is provided and a synthesis of the adolescent parenting model and the socioecological model of injury is suggested as way to address the complex variables that lead to an injury causing event for adolescent mothers and their young children. Finally, we suggest areas of future investigation and their implications for prevention and treatment.

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Gulotta, C.S., Finney, J.W. Intervention Models for Mothers and Children at Risk for Injuries. Clin Child Fam Psychol Rev 3, 25–36 (2000). https://doi.org/10.1023/A:1009515402351

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