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accessible only to the author of the study. The primary observer did not have access to demographic or identifying information about participating families.
The videotaping of the non-referred dyads was conducted according to the same procedures as the clinic-referred dyads. The father and child were brought into a playroom in the Child Study Laboratory where five age-appropriate toys (i.e., Nesting Animals, Lincoln Logs, Waffle Blocks, Magna Doodles, and the Sesame Street Garage), selected for their unstructured, interactive quality, were provided. There, the dyad was videotaped from behind a one-way mirror in the three DPICS-II standard situations. The CDI and PDI situations were videotaped for 10 minutes, and the CU was videotaped for five minutes. Coding, however, will be completed only on the second five minutes of the CDI and PDI situations, as well as on the five minutes of CU. During the observations, the fathers wore a bug-in-the-ear device, an audio receiver worn in the ear similar to a hearing aid. This device was used to signal unobtrusively to the fathers when CDI began and when to change from one situation to another. At five-minute intervals, the fathers were read standard instructions over the device from a transmitter in the observation room.
For the first situation, CDI, the following directions were given:
"In this situation, tell that he/she may play with whatever he/she
chooses. Let him/her choose any activity he/she wishes. You just follow his/her
lead and play along with him/her."
After the five minute warm-up period, the father was told: