Infant and Toddler Mental Health: Models of Clinical Intervention with Infants and Their Families [Paperback]

J. Martin Maldonado-Duran (Author)

Book Description

ISBN-10: 1585620866 | ISBN-13: 978-1585620869 | Publication Date: July 15, 2002 | Edition: 1st

Countless studies have demonstrated the power of early intervention to permanently alter the course of a childAs life. YetAheightened by the past decadeAs research breakthroughs in geneticsAthe nature vs. nurture controversy rages on. This volume dispels some of the persistent myths surrounding this controversy. Unlike largely theoretical texts that describe infant behavioral and emotional difficulties and other psychosocial challenges affecting young children, this eminently practical guide illustrates what to do in numerous clinical situations with actual patients. Written by clinicians who work with infants and children and their families every day, this reality-based approach addresses the most common and important problems in infant psychopathology (e.g., trauma, sleep, feeding, excessive crying, attachment disruptions), covering models of intervention from pregnancy through infancy, attachment issues, and transgenerational themes. Here, youAll find topics rarely addressed elsewhere: -The theoretical and clinical implications of trauma during early childhood and its effects on emotional regulation, cognition, and attachment, including potential disruptions of attachmentAa topic widely overlooked in the life of young children, perhaps because of the distress it produces in adults to think that infants can be subject to violence, witness major traumatic events, and experience consequences from such events -Techniques, such as multimodal parent-infant psychotherapy, for working effectively with familiesAonce considered AunreachableAAwho are under severe stress and have endured multiple disruptions, disappointments, and marginalization -A timely discussion of a rarely addressed problem on the importance of early intervention and the effects of day care for infants, from the point of view of the infant exposed to multiple caretakers, addressing the very difficult questions of the effects on infants of changes in caretakers -How young children use their bodies and its functions to manifest their difficulties, focusing on sleeping, crying, and eating with practical suggestions that can be widely applied by health care professionals -Unique commentaries on two case examples by a diverse international panel of clinicians and researchersAfrom countries such as Argentina, Canada, France, Japan, Mexico, Switzerland, the UK, and the U.S. Aillustrating the differences of opinion, approaches, and perspectives that together generate more effective assessment and treatment This thought-provoking clinical reference is a Amust readA for developmental, child, and adolescent psychiatry educators and practitionersAand nurses, pediatricians, occupational therapists, and clinical social workersAas they help the youngest members of our community through theoretical understanding and practical intervention.

Editorial Reviews

Review

"Taken as a whole, this excellent book should encourage both those already doing this work to continue and those who are thinking of it to start."-- "Robin Balbernie, Journal of Child Psychology and Psychiatry", "2003"

About the Author

J. Martín Maldonado-Durán, M.D., works at the Family Service and Guidance Center in Topeka, Kansas. He is also an investigator for the Child and Family Center at the Menninger Clinic, an adjunct professor for infant psychopathology at Kansas State University, and a clinical professor at the University of Kansas in Topeka, Kansas.

Product Details

• Paperback: 424 pages
• Publisher: American Psychiatric Publishing, Inc.; 1st edition (July 15, 2002)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 1585620866
• ISBN-13: 978-1585620869
• Product Dimensions: 9 x 6.4 x 0.8 inches
• Shipping Weight: 1.2 pounds (View shipping rates and policies)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #759,246 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)