Kere Hughes‐Belding

Biographic Data

ID5046517
NAMEKere Hughes‐Belding
GIVEN NAMESKere
FAMILY NAMEHughes‐Belding
SIGNATUREBELDING K H
AFFILIATIONSIowa State University
ORCID0000-0002-2982-6004
VERIFIEDYes
TOTAL WORKS9
TOTAL CITATIONS9
AUTHOR COUNT9
EDITOR COUNT0
FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR1996
LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR2026
H-INDEX2

  • Driving forces: Unpacking workforce satisfaction and retention among home visitors

    Open AccessAnne D Plagge, Kere Hughes‐BeldingARTICLEInfant Mental Health Journal2026References: 16

    Early childhood home visiting is a complex profession that requires knowledge, skills, and passion for working with families experiencing multiple challenges. Research on workforce satisfaction and retention relies primarily on data collected by current home visitors or supervisors of former employees and lacks depth. The current study was developed to better understand motivators that influence home visitors’ satisfaction and aid in workforce re…

  • Facilitating caregiver‐child interactions in home visiting: A qualitative observational study

    Open AccessLuke Timothy Huber, Faith Molthen et al.ARTICLEInfant Mental Health Journal2023References: 30

    Facilitating parent‐child interactions is a key component of evidence‐based early childhood home visiting programs. Several observational measures have been created to effectively capture home visiting activities from an operationalized perspective. While the field has a reasonable understanding of what home visitors can do to facilitate developmentally supportive interactions, and why, the how remains elusive for many home visitors. This qualita…

  • Coaching home visitors: A thematic review with an emphasis on research and practice needs

    Open AccessBridget A Walsh, Mark S Innocenti et al.ARTICLEInfant Mental Health Journal2022

    There is wide recognition in early childhood fields that coaching is important to a professional's development and growth in general, but little is known about coaching home visiting professionals in particular. An early childhood home visiting professional works with families to encourage positive parent‐child interactions, family goal setting, and family well‐being and health. Determining the essential components of coaching home visitors will …

  • Relations among home visit quality, parent-child interactions, and children’s outcomes

    Open AccessKere Hughes‐Belding, Kere Hughes-Belding et al.ARTICLEChildren and Youth Services Review2022Cited by: 2References: 38

  • Evaluating Implementation of Infant/Toddler Igdis for Progress Monitoring by Practitioners in Part C Programs

    Open AccessKere Hughes‐Belding, Kere Hughes-Belding et al.ARTICLEChild & Youth Care Forum2021

  • Quality home visits: Activities to promote meaningful interactions

    Open AccessKere Hughes‐Belding, Carla A Peterson et al.ARTICLEInfant Mental Health Journal2019Cited by: 5References: 20

    Examination of and support for specific practices that promote high‐quality home visiting are essential as family support programs continue to expand across the country. The current study used direct observation of 91 home visits across 41 home visitors to examine relations among interaction partners, content of the interactions, the home‐visitors’ activities, and quality of home‐visitors’ practices and family‐members’ engagement within programs …

  • Triadic Interactions in MIECHV: Relations to Home Visit Quality

    Open AccessCarla A Peterson, Kere Hughes‐Belding et al.ARTICLEMaternal and Child Health Journal2018

    Objectives This study was conducted to look inside home visits to examine active intervention ingredients used and their relations with ratings of home visit quality. In particular, triadic interactions that engage the home visitor, parent, and child together and provide a context for home visitors to facilitate parent-child interactions by observing, modeling and coaching behaviors that promote optimal child development were examined. Methods Ob…

  • Observing Toddlers’ Individual Experiences in Classrooms: Initial Use of the Parenting Interactions With Children: Checklist of Observations Linked to Outcomes

    Open AccessChristine N Lippard, Katie L Riley et al.ARTICLEInfant Mental Health Journal2016Cited by: 2References: 30

    This study investigated using the Parenting Interactions with Children: Checklist of Observations Linked to Outcomes (PICCOLO; Roggman, Cook, Innocenti, Norman, & Christiansen, 2013a) measure to assess teacher–child interactions experienced by individual toddlers within their childcare classrooms. Forty toddlers were observed, each during three 10‐min cycles, and all their interactions with adults in the classroom were coded using the PICCOLO. Re…

  • Children of adolescent mothers: Attachment representation, maternal depression, and later behavior problems

    Laura Hubbs‐tait, Laura Hubbs-Tait et al.ARTICLEAmerican Journal of Orthopsychiatry1996

    Underlying the responses of 34 44-month-old children of adolescent mothers to five attachment narratives were two factors--departure and reunion. The departure factor included disorganized and insecure responses to parents' departure as well as disorganized responses to narratives about children's misbehavior and fear. Scores predicted children's externalizing behavior problems 10 months later and discriminated children in the clinical from those…