A hospital-based transitional care medical program for infants discharged from a neonatal intensive care unit is described. Family involvement is emphasized, as is interdisciplinary teamwork. Concerns that the program would encourage unnecessary hospitalization and increase vulnerability to infection have been proven unjustified. (Author/DB)

Describes the Parent Child Development Center Programs and presents results of evaluation and follow up programs. (SB)

Discusses a residential treatment program model for involving families in the education and training of their young multihandicapped children. Describes six developmental stages of family involvement. (HS)

Discusses a model for clinical preventive intervention with multi-risk-factor families and their infants, with emphasis on the developmental risks involved for both. Emphasis is placed on the context of the total intervention effort, namely, on intervention with the infant, parents, and support system. (Author/DB)