Suggested Books

Clinical Studies in Infant Mental Health : The First Year of Life
Basic Books (October 1, 1980)
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Development in Jeopardy : Clinical Responses to Infants and Families (Clinical Infant Reports Series of the Zero to Three/National Center for Clinical)
International Universities Press (September 1, 1993)
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For medical practitioners and students, detailed case studies illustrate the diagnostic and therapeutic issues and methods specific to working with children from birth to three and their families.

The Development of Psychopathology: Nature and Nurture
The Guilford Press; 1st edition (April 29, 2002)
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Bringing a neuroscientific perspective to the topic, Pennington (psychology, U. of Denver) develops a theoretical framework of psychopathology that proposes four interlocking and interacting levels of analysis: genetic and environmental mechanisms, brain mechanisms that alter the developmental process, the neuropsychological processes that are disrupted, and the symptom or surface level of the pathological condition.

Early Intervention Programs for Infants
Haworth Press (January 1, 1982)
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Handbook of Infant Mental Health
The Guilford Press; 2nd edition (December 9, 1999)
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Grounded in a relational perspective, this volume offers a sweeping interdisciplinary analysis of the developmental, clinical, and social aspects of mental health from birth to age three.

Infant Development and Mental Health in Early Intervention (Infants & Young Children)
Aspen Publishers; 1st edition (March 1, 1995)
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Nineteen papers from diverse perspectives cover topics including maltreatment of young children with disabilities; strategies for building resilience in infants and young children at risk; ADHD in young children; and poverty and early childhood development.

Infant Intervention Program
Haworth Press (November 1, 1984)
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Infant Previewing : Predicting and Sharing Interpersonal Outcome
Springer (July 1, 1990)
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Introduces Trad's (psychiatry, Cornell) technique of temporarily inducing the behavior of an infant's next developmental stage in order to channel development in a desired direction.

Infants and Parents : Clinical Case Reports (Clinical Infant Reports)
International Universities Press (December 1, 1983)
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Motherhood and Mental Health (Oxford Medical Publications)
Oxford University Press (July 1, 1996)
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University of Birmingham, Edgbaston, U.K. Text on treating women suffering from mental or emotional difficulty as a result of their roles as mothers, for psychiatrists.

The Premature in Context
Spectrum Pubns (October 1, 1982)
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The Rights of Infants : Early Psychological Needs and Their Satisfaction
Columbia University Press (April, 1966)
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