Description
Book SynopsisKeynote: 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.
Trade Review"...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)
Table of ContentsInfant 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).
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