ABSTRACT

This book addresses the most significant and recent issues of infant and child psychiatry, examining topics from clinical care and research perspectives as well as from the perspectives of policies and programs. The first book in the Mentor Series of the International Association for Child and Adolescent Psychiatry and Allied Professions, it is written and edited by the foremost authorities in the field. Presented with clarity in a thorough and well-organized fashion to professionals caring for children across the world, this book refines the most significant current knowledge concerning infants to aid infants and families from the immediate care giving of a mother to the policy decisions concerning children by a government.

part 1|52 pages

The Family in the Twenty-First Century

chapter 2|8 pages

Strengths and Stresses in Today's Families

Looking Toward the Future

chapter 3|13 pages

On Becoming a Family

Bonding and the Changing Patterns in Baby and Family Behavior

part 2|46 pages

New Directions in Infancy Research

chapter 7|12 pages

The Cultural Context of Child Development

Implications for Research and Practice in the Twenty-First Century

part 3|59 pages

The Ontogeny of the Parent–Child Relationship

part 4|41 pages

Intervention Priorities for the Twenty-First Century

chapter 12|16 pages

Child Development

Old Themes and New Directions

part 5|130 pages

Culture, Family, and Infant in the Twenty-First Century

chapter 15|30 pages

The Cradle of Adaptation

Models Describing the Experience-Responsive Development of Neural Structure and Adaptive Capacities in Infancy and Early Childhood

chapter 16|32 pages

The Infant and Family in a New Century

Integrating Clinical and Neuroscience Perspectives