The book has widened the circle of knowledge for those who work with very young children. Presents four detailed case studies of infants in multirisk families, which provide clinical data for the relatively new field of comprehensive clinical preventive approaches for infants, and their families. Conceptual chapters look for patterns and principles in the clinical experience, present criteria for comprehensive developmental diagnosis for infants and young children, and outline operational criteria for the progression of the therapeutic process itself. Greenspan and his colleagues have offered us a rich array from which to choose and consider in understanding this complex and important area. Defined as interaction that attends and responds to the communications of infants and parents, inclusive interaction is a goal worth striving for.
Every child has a unique pattern of taking in and responding to information from the senses.
Most young children learn to build on their own individual capacities and accept help from others as they learn to cope with their environment. But some children require a great deal of assistance to overcome difficulties in taking in and responding to information from their senses, and to achieve the levels of self-regulation they need to interact with and explore the world around them.