Parenting and Infant Mental Health in Global Perspective: Exploring Standards for Virtual Intervention Designs

Virtual designs of parenting educations and trainings are growing, offering the opportunity of a global outreach to improve infant mental health. How can quality care practices be defined and implemented? This chapter presents the design of a global blended learning intervention by the Danish Fairstart Foundation . Partnering with local NGOs and government agencies worldwide. 750 partner staff in 36 countries have been educated, and have trained the local caregivers of 65.000 high-risk children in attachment-based daily care and learning. The text is intended to inspire the further development of online classrooms, to upscale mental health intervention programs.