WAIMH Handbook of Infant Mental Health, Perspectives on Infant Mental Health

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 1. Band "Perspectives on Infant Mental Health" beschäftigt sich schwerpunktmäßig mit drei großen Themenbereichen: mit Geschichte und Theorie der geistigen Gesundheit des Kindes, mit kulturübergreifenden Aspekten und dem soziokulturellen Kontext, wobei jeweils Beispiele aus verschiedenen Länder und Kulturen angeführt werden. (01/00) Infant Mental Health: Origins and Emergence of an InterdisciplinaryField (H. Fitzgerald & L. Barton).

Cross-Cultural Perspectives on Infant Mental Health: Japan (K.Okonogi & Y. Hamada).

Longitudinal Aspects of Early Parent-Infant Interactions andContacts with Mental Health Agencies (P. de Chateau).

Cross-Cultural Perspectives on Infant Mental Health: Development ofInfant Mental Health in Australia (B. Warren).

Cross-Cultural Perspectives on Infant Mental Health: A French Viewon the History of Infant and Child Psychiatry (S. Lebovici).

The Sociocultural Context of American Indian Infant Mental Health(M. Heart & P. Spicer).

The Sociocultural Context of Infant Mental Health in the People'sRepublic of China (R. Fong).

Infant Mental Health in Brazil (S. Celia).

Infant Mental Health in Scandinavia (P. Mothander).

New Attitudes: Infant Care Facilities in Saint Petersburg, Russia(R. Muhamedrahimov).

Cross-Cultural Perspectives on Infant Mental Health: Germany,Austria, and Switzerland (P. Scheer & M. Dunitz-Scheer).

Work Projects Toward Infant Mental Health in a Child and AdolescentPsychiatric Clinic (M. Aguerre).

Indexes. "...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 1: Perspectives on Infant Mental Health, 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.