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.Das erste Handbuch, das eine tiefgreifende, interdisziplinäre Analyse über bio- und psychosoziale Faktoren durchführt, Faktoren, die darüber entscheiden, ob die geistige Entwicklung eines Kind sich normal oder abnormal vollzieht. Dieses bahnbrechende 4-bändige Nachschlagewerk bietet einen aktuellen Überblick über das Forschungsgebiet. Es entstand unter der Schirmherrschaft der führenden internationalen Organisation zur Kindesentwicklung - die World Association of Infant Mental Health (WAIMH) - und enthält Beiträge von führenden internationalen Forschern, Klinikärzten und Wissenschaftlern. Dieser 4. Band "Infant Mental Health Groups at High Risk" behandelt Risikogruppen, wobei u.a. Entwicklungsprobleme, Kindesmißhandlung in frühen Jahren sowie Gewalt und ihre Auswirkungen auf Kind und Eltern diskutiert werden. (01/00)

Foreword xiii
Yvon Gauthier

Preface xvii
Joy D. Osofsky and Hiram E. Fitzgerald

1 Ecological Perspectives on Developmental Risk 1

2 Remembering, Repeating, and Working Through: Lessons From Attachment-Based Interventions 35
Byron Egeland, Nancy S. Weinfield, Michelle Bosquet, and Valerie K. Cheng

3 Attachment Disorders of Infancy 91
Charles H. Zeanah, Neil W. Boris, Sudha Bakshi, and Alicia F. Lieberman

4 Prenatal and Postnatal Exposure to Parental Alcohol Use and Abuse 123
Hiram E. Fitzgerald, Leon I Puttler, Eun Young Mun, and Robert A. Zucker

5 Infants and Violence: Prevention, Intervention, and Treatment 161
Joy D. Osofsky

6 Infant Mental Health Perspectives on Peer Play Psychotherapy for Symptomatic, At-Risk, and Disordered Young Children 197
Rebecca Shahmoon-Shanok

7 Child Maltreatment in the Early Years of Life 255
Dante Cicchetti and Sheree L. Toth

8 Preterm Infants Benefit From Early Interventions 295
Maria Hernandez-Reif and Tiffany Field

9 Perinatal Loss: Parental Grieving, Family Impact, and Intervention Services 327
Robert J. Harmon, Nancy S. Plummer, and Karen A. Frankel

10 Adolescent Mothers and Their Children 369
Tom Luster and Holly Brophy-Herb

11 Persistent Crying, Parenting, and Infant Mental Health 415
Mechthild Papousek

12 Infant Depression and Withdrawal: Clinical Assessment 455
Antoine Guedeney

13 Infant Mental Health and Social Policy 485
Emily Fenichel

14 An Attachment Theory Perspective on Early Influences on Development and Social Inequalities in Health 521
Peter Fonagy and Anna Higgitt

Author Index 579

Subject Index 597

"...an impressive collection of information...""...will serve as amajor resource for clinicians, researchers, scholars and studentsof human development in the years to come." (Int Jnl of AdolescentMedicine & Health, 13th January 2000)

Joy D. Osofsky is the editor of WAIMH Handbook of Infant Mental Health, Volume 4, Infant Mental Health in Groups at High Risk, published by Wiley.

Hiram E. Fitzgerald is Associate Provost for University Outreach and Engagement, University Distinguished Professor of Psychology, and Adjunct Professor in Human Development and Family Studies at Michigan State University.