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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 ContentsForeword 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
