WAIMH Handbook of Infant Mental Health: Infant Mental Health in Groups at High Risk

Keynote: This 4–volume set offers comprehensive coverage of children′s psychological development during the critical early years of life. Infancy––which is defined as the period from birth to 18 months of age––is the single most critical stage in cognitive and socioemotional development. The comprehensive WAIMH Handbook of Infant Mental Health offers the first thorough interdisciplinary analysis of the biopsychosocial factors that impact normal and abnormal infant mental development. Assembled under the auspices of the leading international organization in infant development––the World Association of Infant Mental Health––this ground–breaking four–volume reference offers a state–of–the–art overview of the field by the world′s leading researchers, clinicians, and scholars.

Spis treści:
Ecological Perspectives on Developmental Risk (A. Sameroff).
Remembering, Repeating, and Working Through: Lessons from Attachment–Based Interventions (B. Egeland, et al.).
Attachment Disorders of Infancy (C. Zeanah, et al.).
Prenatal and Postnatal Exposure to Parental Alcohol Use and Abuse (H. Fitzgerald, et al.).
Infants and Violence: Prevention, Intervention, and Treatment (J. Osofsky).
Infant Mental Health Perspectives on Peer Play Psychotherapy for Symptomatic, At–Risk, and Disordered Young Children (R. Shahmoon–Shanok).
Child Maltreatment in the Early Years of Life (D. Cicchetti & S. Toth).
Preterm Infants Benefit from Early Interventions (M. Hernandez–Reif & T. Field).
Perinatal Loss: Parental Grieving, Family Impact, and Intervention Services (R. Harmon, et al.).
Adolescent Mothers and Their Children (T. Luster & H. Brophy–Herb).
Persistent Crying, Parenting, and Infant Mental Health (M. Papousek).
Infant Depression and Withdrawal: Clinical Assessment (A. Guedeney).
Infant Mental Healt h and Social Policy (E. Fenichel).
An Attachment Theory Perspective on Early Influences on Development and Social Inequalities in Health (P. Fonagy & A. Higgitt).
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