Contents:

Part IDEVELOPMENT AND CONTEXT

Chapter 1The Scope of Infant Mental Health

Reorganization and Transformation

Implications for Infant Mental Health

Chapter4Neurobiology of Stress in Infancy

Emerging Competence in a Relational Context

Toward Contextually Congruent Interventions

Chapter 7Applying Research Findings on Early Experience to Infant Mental Health

Chapter 20Intellectual Disabilities

Chapter 21Posttraumatic Stress Disorder

Chapter 22Sleep Disorders

Chapter 23Feeding Disorders Failure to Thrive and Obesity

Enhancing Developmental Sensitivity

Chapter 25Depression

Chapter 26Attachment Disorders

Part VINTERVENTION


Part IIRISK AND PROTECTIVE FACTORS

Facing the Complex Challenges

Vulnerabilities Risk Factors and Protective Factors for the Later Development of Psychopathology

Chapter 10Parental Substance Abuse

Chapter 11Prematurity Risk Factors and Protective Factors

Chapter 12The Effects of Violent Experiences on Infants and Young Children

Chapter 13The Relational Context of Adolescent Motherhood

Part IIIASSESSMENT

Chapter 14Parent Reports and InfantToddler Mental Health Assessment

Chapter 15Clinical Use of Observational Procedures in Early Childhood Relationship Assessment

Parents Insightfulness Regarding Their Young Childrens Internal Worlds

Part IVPSYCHOPATHOLOGY

Chapter 17Classification of Psychopathology in Early Childhood

Chapter 18Autism Spectrum Disorders

Chapter 19Communication Disorders

A Developmental Approach to Mental Health Treatment in Infancy and Early Childhood

Chapter 28The Circle of Security

Chapter 29Principles of Family Therapy in Infancy

An AttachmentBased Intervention for Mothers in Substance Abuse Treatment

Chapter 31Foster Care in Early Childhood

Does It Have a Role?

Part VIAPPLICATIONS OF INFANT MENTAL HEALTH

Chapter 33Training in Infant Mental Health

Chapter 34Infant Mental Health in Primary Health Care

A Transactional Approach in Child Care

Chapter 36The Economics of Infant Mental Health

Author Index

Subject Index

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