Handbook of Infant Mental Health, Third Edition

by Zeanah, Charles H.

• ISBN13: 9781606233153
• ISBN10: 1606233157
• Edition: 3rd
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2009-07-15
• Publisher: The Guilford Press

Summary

Widely regarded as the standard reference in the field, this handbook offers a comprehensive analysis of developmental, clinical, and social aspects of mental health from birth to the preschool years. Leading authorities explore models of development; biological, family, and sociocultural risk and protective factors; and frequently encountered disorders and disabilities. Evidence-based approaches to assessment and treatment are presented, with an emphasis on ways to support strong parent–child relationships. The volume reviews the well-documented benefits of early intervention and prevention and describes applications in mental health, primary care, childcare, and child welfare settings.

Author Biography

Charles H. Zeanah, Jr., MD, is the Mary K. Sellars-Polchow Chair in Psychiatry, Professor of Clinical Pediatrics, and Vice Chair for Child and Adolescent Psychiatry in the Department of Psychiatry and Neurology at Tulane University School of Medicine in New Orleans. He is also Executive Director of the Institute for Infant and Early Childhood Mental Health at Tulane. Dr. Zeanah has a longstanding interest in infant mental health, especially abuse and neglect in young children, attachment and its disorders, psychopathology, and infant–parent relationships. Throughout his career, his clinical and research focus has been on early experiences and their effects. He is the recipient of honors including the Irving Phillips Award for Prevention from the American Academy of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry (AACAP), the Presidential Citation for Distinguished Research and Leadership in Infant Mental Health from the American Orthopsychiatric Association, the Sarah Haley Memorial Award for Clinical Excellence from the International Society for Traumatic Stress Studies, and the Blanche F. Ittelson Award for Research in Child Psychiatry from the American Psychiatric Association (APA). Dr. Zeanah is a Fellow of AACAP, a Distinguished Fellow of the APA, and a Board Member of Zero to Three.

Table of Contents

Development and Context	p. 1
The Scope of Infant Mental Health	p. 5
The Psychology and Psychopathology of Pregnancy: Reorganization and Transformation	p. 22
Neurobiology of Fetal and Infant Development: Implications for Infant Mental Health	p. 40
Neurobiology of Stress in Infancy	p. 59
Infant Social and Emotional Development: Emerging Competence in a Relational Context	p. 80
The Sociocultural Context of Infant Mental Health: Toward Contextually Congruent Interventions	p. 104
Applying Research Findings on Early Experience to Infant Mental Health	p. 120
Risk and Protective Factors	p. 133
Poverty and Infant and Toddler Development: Facing the Complex Challenges	p. 135
Infants of Depressed Mothers: Vulnerabilities, Risk Factors, and Protective Factors for the Later Development of Psychopathology	p. 153
Parental Substance Abuse	p. 171
Prematurity, Risk Factors, and Protective Factors	p. 180
The Effects of Violent Experiences on Infants and Young Children	p. 197
The Relational Context of Adolescent Motherhood	p. 214
Assessment	p. 231
Parent Reports and Infant-Toddler Mental Health Assessment	p. 233
Clinical Use of Observational Procedures in Early Childhood Relationship Assessment	p. 252
Infant-Parent Relationship Assessment: Parents' Insightfulness Regarding Their Young Children's Internal Worlds	p. 266
Psychopathology	p. 281
Classification of Psychopathology in Early Childhood	p. 285
Autism Spectrum Disorders	p. 301
Communication Disorders	p. 318
Intellectual Disabilities	p. 332
Posttraumatic Stress Disorder	p. 345
Sleep Disorders	p. 362
Feeding Disorders, Failure to Thrive, and Obesity	p. 377
Characterizing Early Childhood Disruptive Behavior: Enhancing Developmental Sensitivity	p. 392
Depression	p. 409
Attachment Disorders	p. 421
Intervention	p. 435
Child-Parent Psychotherapy: A Developmental Approach to Mental Health Treatment in Infancy and Early Childhood	p. 439
The Circle of Security	p. 450
Principles of Family Therapy in Infancy	p. 468
The Mothers and Toddlers Program: An Attachment-Based Intervention for Mothers in Substance Abuse Treatment	p. 485
Foster Care in Early Childhood	p. 500
Psychopharmacology in Early Childhood: Does It Have a Role?	p. 516
Applications of Infant Mental Health	p. 531
Training in Infant Mental Health	p. 533
Infant Mental Health in Primary Health Care	p. 549
Mental Health Consultation: A Transactional Approach in Child Care	p. 564
The Economics of Infant Mental Health	p. 580
Author Index	p. 591
Subject Index	p. 611
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