Title: Infant and early childhood mental health : a comprehensive, developmental approach to assessment and intervention /
Authors: Greenspan, Stanley I.; Wieder, Serena.
Publisher: American Psychiatric Pub.,
Year: 2006
Subjects: Infant psychiatry.; Child psychiatry; Infants Mental health.; Preschool children Mental health.; Toddlers Mental health.; Child Development; Child, Preschool; Early Intervention, Educational methods; Infant; Mental Disorders diagnosis; Mental Disorders therapy; Mental Health
Abstract: The authors demonstrate how to use their well-established and documented DIR (Developmental, Individual-Differences, Relationship-Based) model to work with the full range of infant and early childhood challenges. These include interactive problems, such as infants and young children with anxiety disorders, depression, attachment disorders, attentional problems, trauma, and elective mutism; regulatory-sensory processing problems, including infants and young children who are overresponsive and fearful, underresponsive and self-absorbed, sensory craving and overly active and aggressive, as well as those who have difficulty with planning and coordinating action; and neurodevelopmental disorders of relating and communicating, including infants and young children with autism spectrum disorders and other severe developmental challenges.
Contents: A comprehensive model for infant and early childhood mental health -- A developmental biopsychosocial model: the developmental, individual-differences, relationship-based (DIR) approach -- The functional emotional stages of development : the cornerstone of the DIR model -- Principles of assessment and intervention -- Assessment -- Therapeutic principles -- Parent-oriented developmental therapy -- Clinical strategies and techniques for different types of infants and young children -- Classification, diagnosis, and treatment of infant and early childhood disorders -- Assessment and treatment of infants and young children with interactive disorders -- Assessment and treatment of infants and young children with regulatory-sensory processing disorders -- Assessment and treatment of infants and young children with neurodevelopmental disorders of relating and communicating -- Prevention and early intervention -- Infants in multi-risk families: a model for developmentally based preventive intervention -- A model for comprehensive prevention and early intervention services for all families.