Clinical Skills in Infant Mental Health

Contents......Page 6
Foreword......Page 4
Acknowledgements......Page 7
Note to readers......Page 9
Authors......Page 10
Quotations......Page 12
PART A  Clinical framework......Page 14
CHAPTER 1  Introduction to infant mental health......Page 16
CHAPTER 2  Attachment: theory, disruptions and disorders......Page 38
CHAPTER 3  Principles of assessment in infant mental health......Page 53
CHAPTER 4  Assessing risk in infancy......Page 71
PART B  The early infant–parent relationship......Page 80
CHAPTER 5  Pregnancy, labour and birth......Page 82
CHAPTER 6  Biomedical problems in infancy......Page 100
CHAPTER 7  Sleeping......Page 124
CHAPTER 8  Feeding......Page 146
PART C  The toddler period......Page 166
CHAPTER 9  Behavioural and emotional difficulties in toddlers......Page 168
CHAPTER 10  Consequences of trauma......Page 186
CHAPTER 11  Gender development and identity......Page 196
PART D  Parents and society......Page 212
CHAPTER 12  Perinatal mental illness......Page 214
CHAPTER 13  Parents abused as children......Page 230
CHAPTER 14  Parents with personality disorder......Page 244
CHAPTER 15  Parenting and substance abuse......Page 263
CHAPTER 16  Adolescent parents......Page 274
CHAPTER 17  Families with multiple adversity......Page 285
Glossary......Page 300
References......Page 304
A......Page 324
C......Page 325
E......Page 326
H......Page 327
I......Page 328
M......Page 329
P......Page 330
S......Page 332
Y......Page 333