Overview
- Examines social-emotional and cognitive development during infancy and early childhood
- Addresses neurobiological development of infants, including, genes, epigenetics, biobehavioral synchrony
- Explores high-risk factors in the infant-caregiver relationship (e.g., trauma, substance abuse, adolescent parenting)
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Table of contents (28 chapters)
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Front Matter
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Infant Development
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Neurobiological Influences
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Parenting and Caregiving
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Keywords
- Adolescent parenting, infant development
- Attachment, parents, caregivers, infants
- Biobehavioral synchory, infancy, development
- Epigenetics, infants, development
- Genetics, infancy, development
- High-risk parenting, infants, toddlers
- Intersubjectivity, interception, infancy, development
- Mothers, fathers, infants, toddlers, development
- Neurobiological development, infancy
- Parent-infant psychotherapy
- Parenting, infants, toddlers
- Perinatal indicators, infancy, development
- Prenatal development, parents
- Prevention, assessment, intervention, infancy
- Regulatory systems, temperament, infants, development
- Same-sex parents, infants, toddlers
- Sex differences, vulnerabilities, infancy, early childhood
- Social-emotional development, infants, toddlers
- Substance use disorders, parents, infant development
- Trauma, infants, toddlers, parents, caregivers
About this book
Key areas of coverage include:
- Social-emotional and cognitive development during infancy and early childhood.
- Temperament in infants and toddlers.
- Neurobiological influences from infancy through early childhood.
- Parenting and caregiving of infants and toddlers.
- Reflective functioning, mentalization, and infant development.
The WAIMH Handbook of Infant and Early Childhood Mental Health, Volume One, is a must-have reference for researchers, professors, and graduate students as well as clinicians and all related therapists and professionals in infancy and early child development, developmental psychology, pediatrics, child and adolescent psychiatry, clinical social work, public health and all related disciplines.
Editors and Affiliations
About the editors
Joy D. Osofsky, Ph.D. is a clinical and developmental psychologist, Ramsay Chair of Psychiatry and Barbara Lemann Professor of Child Welfare at Louisiana State University Health Sciences Center. She has published widely authoring or editing seven books on trauma in the lives of children. Dr. Osofsky is past president of ZERO to THREE and World Association for Infant Mental Health. She serves as Clinical Consultant on the Leadership team for Zero to Three Infant Toddler Court Program and Co-Principal Investigator for NCTSN Center, Terrorism and Disaster Coalition for Child and Family Resilience. In 2021, she was honored with the ZERO to THREE Lifetime Achievement Award.
Hiram E Fitzgerald, PhD, IMH-E® IV is University Distinguished Professor Emeritus in the Department of Psychology at Michigan State University. His major areas of research include the study of infant and family development, risk, resilient and adverse childhood experiences, the impact of fathers on early child development, and the etiology of alcohol use disorders. He is past executive director of WAIMH, and is a Fellow of the American Psychological Association, and the Association of Psychological Science. He is a recipient of the designation “Honorary President” of the World Association of Infant Mental Health, and the ZERO to THREE Dolley Madison Lifetime Achievement Award.
Miri Keren, MD. is Assistant Clinical Professor Emeritus at the Tel Aviv University Sackler Medical School. Her main research interests are about infant psychopathology and diagnoses, eating disorders in infancy, parental psychopathology and parenting, parent-Infant relationships disorders, and PTSD of infancy. As President of the World Association of Infant Mental Health in the years 2012-2016, she has been very invested in the implementation of a declaration of Infant’s Rights. In 2000, she founded the Israeli WAIMH Affiliate and is currently its Honorary President, and she is Chairperson of the World Psychiatric Association Perinatal and Infant Mental Health Section. She received the WAIMH Lebovici Award in June 2021.
Kaija Pura, MD, PhD. is Professor of Child Psychiatry in Tampere University, Finland, and Chief Physician in the Department of Child Psychiatry in Tampere University Hospital. She has authored or co-authored over 90 peer reviewed articles, chapters, and books on assessment and treatment of young children. She is a child mental health expert and advisor for the national children’s TV-program “Jyrkin ja Neposen kommervenkkejä,”an Associate Editor of the Infant Mental Health Journal, Executive Director of the World Association for Infant Mental Health, Vice President of the International Association for Child and Adolescent Psychiatry and Allied Professions, and President of the Finnish Association for Child and Adolescent Psychiatry
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: WAIMH Handbook of Infant and Early Childhood Mental Health
Book Subtitle: Biopsychosocial Factors, Volume One
Editors: Joy D. Osofsky, Hiram E. Fitzgerald, Miri Keren, Kaija Puura
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-48627-2
Publisher: Springer Cham
eBook Packages: Behavioral Science and Psychology, Behavioral Science and Psychology (R0)
Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s), under exclusive license to Springer Nature Switzerland AG 2024
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-031-48626-5Published: 20 February 2024
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-031-48629-6Due: 22 March 2024
eBook ISBN: 978-3-031-48627-2Published: 19 February 2024
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XXXVII, 501
Number of Illustrations: 15 b/w illustrations, 12 illustrations in colour
Topics: Developmental Psychology, Child and Adolescent Psychiatry, Pediatrics, Clinical Psychology, Public Health