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Maine Association for Infant Mental Health

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23RD ANNUAL CONFERENCE OF THE MAINE ASSOCIATION FOR INFANT MENTAL HEALTH, INC.

MAY 7, 2010
8:30 a.m. --- 4:00 p.m.

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Brain Development Brochure
Infant Brain Development is all about Connections.

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Ten Things You Should Know About Infant Mental Health

From Baby to Big Kid, is an e-newsletter, from Zero to Three, that showcases how children learn and grow each month from birth to 3 years.
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DC:0-3R
Revised Diagnostic Tool for Infancy and Early Childhood

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Updated resources in the IMH field.

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What Does the ACE STUDY Mean for Maine Children?

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Classics for Clinicians

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.
 
 
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 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.
 
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.

Suggested Books

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Recommended Books

Healing the New Childhood Epidemics: Autism, ADHD, Asthma, and Allergies: The Groundbreaking Program for the 4-A Disorders

Bock, Kenneth, and Cameron Stauth

New York: Ballantine Books, 2008.

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Your Child's Emotional and Behavioural Development: The Essential Family Reference Book

Brazelton, T. Berry

Reading, Mass: Addison-Wesley, 1994.

How Can I Help? Stories and Reflection on Service

Dass, Ram & Paul Gorman

Alfred A. Knopf 1990

What's Going on in There? : How the Brain and Mind Develop in the First Five Years of Life

Eliot, Lise

New York: Bantam, 2000

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The Spirit Catches You and You Fall Down: A Hmong Child, Her American Doctors and the Collision of Two Cultures

Fadiman, Anne

New York: Noonday, 1998

Einstein Never Used Flashcards: How Our Children Really Learn--and Why They Need to Play More and Memorize Less

Golinkoff, Roberta Michnick, Kathy Hirsh-Pasek, and Diane Eyer

New York: Rodale Books, 2004

The Scientist in the Crib: What Early Learning Tells Us About the Mind

Gopnik, Alison


New York: Perennial, 2001

You Are My World: How a Parent's Love Shapes a Baby's Mind

Hatkoff, Amy

Toronto: Stewart, Tabori & Chang, 2007

Toddler Adoption: The Weaver's Craft

Hopkins-Best, Mary

New York: Perspectives (IN), 1998

Building the Bonds of Attachment: Awakening Love in Deeply Troubled Children

Hughes, Daniel

Jason Aronson Inc. 1998

Theraplay: Helping Parents and Children Build Better Relationships Through Attachment-Based Play

Jernberg, Ann Marshak

San Francisco: Jossey-Bass, 1999

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Becoming Attached: Unfolding the Mystery of the Infant-Mother Bond and Its Impact on Later Life

Karen, Robert

Warner Publishers, 1993

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Ghosts from the Nursery: Tracing the Roots of Violence

Karr-Morse, Robin, and Meredith S. Wiley

New York: Atlantic Monthly, 1998

Talks with Teachers of Young Children: A Collection

Katz, Lilian

Ablex Publishing, 1995

Adopting the Hurt Child: Hope for Families with Special-Needs Kids

Keck, Gregory C.

Colorado Springs: NavPress, 2009

Unsmiling Faces: How Preschools Can Heal

Koplow, Leslie, ed.

New York: Teachers College, 1996

How It Feels to Be Adopted

Krementz, J.

Alfred A. Knopf, NY 2000

Raising Your Spirited Child Rev Ed: A Guide for Parents Whose Child Is More Intense, Sensitive, Perceptive, Persistent, and Energetic

Kurcinka, Mary Sheedy

New York: Harper Paperbacks, 2006

Connection Parenting: Parenting Through Connection Instead of Coercion, Through Love Instead of Fear, 2nd Edition

Leo, Pam

Grand Rapids: Wyatt-MacKenzie, 2007

A General Theory of Love

Lewis, Thomas, Fari Amini, and Richard Lannon

NewYork: Vintage, 2001

Don't Hit My Mommy: A Manual For Child-parent Psychotherapy With Young Witnesses Of Family Violence

Lieberman, Alicia F., and Patricia Van Horn

Zero to Three, 2004.

Making Toys for Infants and Toddlers: Using Ordinary Stuff for Extraordinary Play

Miller, Linda G., Mary Jo Gibbs, and Kathy Dobbs

New York: Gryphon House, 2002

Healing Invisible Wounds: Paths to Hope and Recovery in a Violent World

Mollica, Richard F.

Harcourt Press 2006

The Middle of Everywhere: Helping Refugees Enter the American Community

Pipher, Mary Bray

New York: Harcourt, 2002.

Me, Myself and I: How Children Build Their Sense of Self 18-36 Months (Goddard Parenting Guides)

Pruett, Kyle D.

New York: Goddard, 1999.

A Shining Affliction: A Story of Harm and Healing in Psychotherapy

Rogers, Annie G.

New York: Penguin (Non-Classics), 1996

Case Studies in Infant Mental Health: Risk, Resiliency, and Relationships

Shirilla, Joan J. and Deborah Weatherston, eds.

Zero to Three, 2002

The Developing Mind: How Relationships and the Brain Interact to Shape Who We Are

Siegel, Daniel J.

The Guilford Press; 1 edition (October 22, 2001)

Parenting From the Inside Out

Siegel, Daniel, and Mary Hartzell

New York: Tarcher, 2004

Young Children and Foster Care: A Guide for Professionals

Silver, Judith, ed.

Boston: Brookes Company, 1999

Our Babies, Ourselves: How Biology and Culture Shape the Way We Parent

Small, Meredith

New York: Anchor, 1999

The Dancing Dialogue: Using The Communicative Power Of Movement With Young Children

Tortora, Suzi

Boston: Brookes Company, 2005

Baby Verses: The Narrative Poetry of Infants and Toddlers

Trout, Michael

Institute, Inc., 2008

The Jonathon Letters - One Family's Use of Support as They Took in, and Fell in Love with, a Troubled Child (Audiobook) by Michael Trout and Lori Thomas

Trout, Michael, and Lori Thomas

Annapolis: The Infant-Parent Institute, Inc., 2005

Temperament in Context

Wachs, Theodore D., ed.

Mahwah: Lawrence Erlbaum, 2001

Perfect Madness: Motherhood in the Age of Anxiety

Warner, Judith

New York: Riverhead Hardcover, 2005

Sensory Integration and Self Regulation in Infants and Toddlers: Helping Very Young Children Interact With Their Environment

Williamson, G. Gordon, and Marie E. Anzalone

Zero to Three, 2001

Handbook of Infant Mental Health, Third Edition

Zeanah, Charles, ed.

Guilford Press, NY. 1993

Diagnostic Classification of Mental Health And Development Disorders Of Infancy and Early Childhood: DC:0-3R

Zero to Three

Washington DC 2005

 
 
 
   
     
 
   
     
 
   
 
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