Barbara Hanna Wasik, Ph.D. 

Barbara Hanna Wasik is a psychologist who has devoted most of her professional career to the development and evaluation of early intervention programs for children at risk for social, emotional, or academic difficulties. She is one of the developers of Project CARE and the Infant Health and Development Program, both longitudinal early intervention studies with a home visiting component. She co-designed and conducted a national survey of Home Visiting Programs and she is the coauthor on an instrument to assess home visits.

 

Publications Related to Home Visiting:

Wasik, B. H., & Roberts, R. N. (1989). Home visiting programs for low-income families. Family Resource Coalition Report, 9, 8-9.

Wasik, B. H., Bryant, D. M., & Lyons, C. (1990). Home visiting: Procedures for helping families. Newbury Park, CA: Sage.

Bryant, D. M., Lyons, C. M., & Wasik, B. H. (1990). Ethical issues involved in home visiting. Topics in Early Childhood Special Education, 10(4), 92-107.

The Infant Health and Development Program Consortium. (1990). Enhancing the outcomes of low birth weight, premature infants: A multi-site randomized trial. Journal of the American Medical Association, 263, 3035-3042.

Roberts, R. N., & Wasik, B. H. (1990). Home visiting programs for families with children birth to three: Results of a national survey. Journal of Early Intervention, 14(3), 274-284.

Wasik, B. H., Ramey, C. T., Bryant, D. M., & Sparling, J. J. (1990). A longitudinal study of two early intervention strategies: Project CARE. Child Development, 61(6), 1682-1696.

Roberts, R. N., Wasik, B. H., Casto, G., & Ramey, C. T. (1991). Family support in the home: Programs, policy, and social change. American Psychologist, 46, 131-137.

Wasik, B. H. (1993). Staffing issues for home visiting programs. The Future of Children, 3, (3), 140-157.

Wasik, B. H., & Roberts, R. N. (1994). Survey of home visiting programs for abused and neglected children and their families. Child Abuse and Neglect, 18, 271-283.

Wasik, B. H., & Roberts, R. N. (1994). Home visitor characteristics, training, and supervision: Results from a national survey. Family Relations, 43, 336-341.

Roberts, R.N., & Wasik, B.H. (1994). Home visiting options within Head Start: Current practice and future directions. Early Childhood Research Quarterly, 9, 311-325.

Wasik, B. H., Bryant, D. M., Lyons, C., Sparling, J. J., & Ramey, C. T. (1997). Home visiting in the Infant Health and Development Program. In R. T. Gross, D. Spiker, & C. Haynes (Eds.), The Infant Health and Development Program. Palo Alto, CA: Stanford University Press.

Wasik, B.H. (1997, in press). Implications for child abuse and neglect interventions from early educational interventions. In J. Lutzker (Ed.), Handbook of Child Abuse Research and Treatment. New York: Plenum.

Wasik, B.H. (1997, in press). Professional or paraprofessional home visitors: It depends. Family Futures.

 

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