INFANT HEALTH- Promoting Mental Health and Healthy Weight in Infancy Through Sensitive Parenting

The VIPP-PUF Intervention is developed as an add-on to the existing PUF-program to address infants with major cognitive and regulatory vulnerabilities identified at age 9-10 months and adapted to the settings of community health nurses. The intervention (VIPP-PUF) will be created from an evidence-based method, the Video-based Intervention to Promote Positive Parenting (VIPP), to comprise six therapeutic sessions delivered by the community health nurse during home visits over a three months period. The VIPP -PUF builds on teaching the health nurses to promote parents' sensitivity to meet infants' cognitive and regulatory vulnerabilities, while taking in account the particular needs of families of psycho-social disadvantage.