| Description |
1 online resource : text file, PDF |
| Contents |
Cover; Half Title; Title Page; Copyright Page; Table of Contents; Notes on contributors; Preface; Acknowledgements; Part I Issues in infant wellbeing; 1 Fifty years of childhood; 2 Changing society's attitudes to children and families; Part II Evidence; A: Early experiences and later outcomes; 3 Circuits and circumstances: importance of earliest relationships and their context; 4 Attachment theory: research and application to practice and policy; 5 Maternal representations in pregnancy: importance of the mothers' relationship with their unborn babies |
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6 Keeping the baby in mind: new insights into the links between maternal childhood trauma, mental health problems in pregnancy and outcomes for the child7 Postnatal depression and the under-twos; B: Perinatal risk factors with demonstrable long-term Ill-effects; 8 Health inequalities and the importance of action on perinatal risk factors; 9 Stacked odds: how social background can stifle early child potential; 10 Antenatal and postnatal mental health problems: prevention and treatment; 11 Stress in pregnancy can change fetal and child development; 12 Birth trauma |
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C: Policies with potential to reduce risks and improve outcomes13 Investing in early human development; 14 What makes a difference? Supporting families in caring for children; 15 Evidence-based intervention for the first 1001 days; 16 Transforming infancy through paternity and parental leave; 17 Towards an evidence-based population approach to supporting parenting in the early years; D: Specific programmes demonstrating improved outcomes; 18 Relationship-based interventions in the early years; 19 Child protection in the community: recognising and responding to signs of child neglect |
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20 Mellow programmes for especially vulnerable parents and parents-to-be21 Fathers in the perinatal period: taking their mental health into account; 22 'SafeCare', the case for parent-infant language training; 23 Video Interaction Guidance: promoting secure attachment and optimal development for children, parents and professionals; 24 Life 'is like a box of chocolates': interventions with special-needs babies; Part III Action; 25 Themes arising; 26 Norfolk Parent-Infant Mental Health Attachment Project (PIMAP): working towards integration in attachment, mental health and social care |
| Summary |
"Transforming Infant Wellbeing brings together science and policy to highlight the critical importance of the first 1,001 days of infancy: the period from conception to the second birthday. Introduced and edited by Penelope Leach, who uniquely combines academic knowledge of infant development with the ability to write about it for wide audiences, the book has at its heart 25 original articles by acknowledged experts in different aspects of infant health and development. Brought together, they showcase innovative science and best practises to a wide range of readers: to scientific colleagues in different disciplines; to politicians and policy makers; to local authority commissioners and specialist advisors, statutory and voluntary organisations and parents. This book has a two-fold purpose in science and in social policy. Firstly, to collect new papers by leading scientists in a single volume, which ensures they reach a broad audience. Secondly, by introducing and commenting on the significance of these new findings, the book highlights both the benefits that accrue to society when it acts accordingly, and the costs, financial and social, of our failure to do so. In the last 50 years, interest in infant development and especially maternal and infant mental health has burgeoned. A large number of issues at the forefront of child development research mirror those of yesterday, but the research brought to bear upon them has transformed. Thanks largely to technological and statistical advances, we now know a great deal that researchers of earlier generations could only surmise. However, increasing knowledge of infancy has not been matched by an increasing impact on parents and professionals, politicians and policy makers. Bringing contemporary studies involving pregnancy, birth, infancy and toddlerhood together, along with the undisputed evidential findings that flow from them, large gaps between what is known and what is done become apparent. By focusing on what can be done to fill those gaps, Transforming Infant Wellbeing renders inescapable the need to rethink current priorities. It represents essential reading for researchers, parents and policy makers of infancy."--Provided by publisher |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references at the end of each chapters and index |
| Subject |
Maternal and infant welfare.
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Infants -- Development.
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Infants -- Care.
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Infant Care
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Infants -- Care.
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Infants -- Development.
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Maternal and infant welfare.
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| ISBN |
9781315452890 |
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1315452898 |
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9781315452883 |
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9781138689534 |
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131545288X |
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113868953X |
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9781138689541 |
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9781315452869 |
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1138689548 |
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1315452863 |
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1315452871 |
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9781315452876 |
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