Regulatory Disorders in Infants

1. Front Matter

   Pages i-xvii

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2. From Normal Development to Developmental Crisis and Regulatory Disorder

   • Marisa Benz, Kerstin Scholtes-Spang

   Pages 1-16

3. Approaches to Diagnosing Regulatory Disorders in Infants

   • Sarah Groß

   Pages 17-33

4. Excessive Crying in Infancy

   • Consolata Thiel-Bonney, Manfred Cierpka

   Pages 35-66

5. Sleep Disorders of Early Childhood

   • Kerstin Scholtes-Spang, Hortense Demant, Marisa Benz

   Pages 67-88

6. Feeding Disorders in Infants and Young Children

   • Consolata Thiel-Bonney, Nikolaus von Hofacker

   Pages 89-118

7. Developmentally Appropriate and Excessive Clinginess

   • Kerstin Scholtes-Spang, Marisa Benz

   Pages 119-137

8. Developmentally Appropriate vs. Persistent Defiant and Aggressive Behavior

   • Manfred Cierpka, Astrid Cierpka

   Pages 139-160

9. Disinterest in Play in Infancy: Problems in the Regulation of Attention and Play

   • Mechthild Papoušek

   Pages 161-180

10. Treatment Approaches for Regulatory Disorders

    • Manfred Cierpka

    Pages 181-200

11. Video and Video Feedback in Counseling and Therapy

    • Consolata Thiel-Bonney

    Pages 201-213

12. Focus-Oriented Psychotherapy of Parents with Infants and Toddlers

    • Michael Stasch, Manfred Cierpka, Eberhard Windaus

    Pages 215-229

13. Back Matter

    Pages 231-238

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This innovative book discusses current findings on regulatory disorders in infants and offers practical guidelines for diagnosis and intervention. Focusing on core infant and toddler concerns including crying, sleeping, feeding, clinginess, and aggression, it presents a developmental continuum from normal to disturbed behavior regulation and examines science-based strategies for halting this trajectory. Case examples and widely used tools illustrate diverse approaches to assessment and diagnosis, emphasizing nuances of parent-infant interactions and parents‘ reactions that may fail to answer, or may even exacerbate, the child’s distress. And chapters outline counseling and therapy options for infants and parents, so that persistent problems do not become entrenched in children’s future behavior or lead to long-term family dysfunction.




Among the topics covered:

• Approaches to diagnosing regulatory disorders in infants.
• Feeding disorders in infants and young children.
• Developmentally appropriate vs. persistent defiant and aggressive behavior.
• Treatment approaches for regulatory disorders.
• Video and video feedback in counseling and therapy.

Regulatory Disorders in Infants is an essential resource for clinicians and practitioners as well as researchers and graduate students in clinical child and school psychology, pediatrics, social work, psychiatry, and family studies. 

• Ages zero to three and regulatory disorders
• Assessment and diagnosis of regulatory disorders
• Attachment problems in infancy
• Attentive behavior and play in infants
• Clinging behavior in infants
• Cognitive development in infants
• Excessive crying in infants
• Feeding disorders in infants
• Feeding problems in infants
• Focus-oriented psychotherapy for families with infants
• Parent-infant psychotherapy
• Regulatory disorders in early childhood
• Regulatory disorders in infants
• Regulatory problems in infants
• Sleeping problems in infants
• Social-emotional development in infants
• Temper tantrums in infants
• Video and video feedback

“This book written for neonatologists, pediatricians and growth and development clinics reviews in 11 sections frequent developmental problems in early childhood and offers guidelines for diagnosis and treatment. It contains examples of patients and discusses parent-infant interactions. An interesting chapter reviews video feedback in counseling and therapy.” (Pediatric Endocrinology Reviews (PER), Vol. 14 (4), June, 2017)

• Institute for Psychosocial Prevention, University Hospital Heidelberg, Heidelberg, Germany

  Manfred Cierpka

Prof. Dr. med. Manfred Cierpka is a Senior Professor at the University Hospital of Heidelberg. He is a Medical Doctor of Psychiatry and Psychosomatic Medicine, a Psychoanalyst, and Family Therapist. He completed his doctorate at the University of Ulm, after which he became a Professor of Psychosomatics and Family Therapy at the University of Göttingen. From 1998-2015 he was the Medical Director of the Institute for Psychosomatic Cooperation Research and Family Therapy at the University Hospital of Heidelberg. He is the author or editor of many books including the Handbuch der Familiendiagnostik, published by Springer. He is also co-editor of the journal Psychotherapeut, also published by Springer. 

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