The Neurobehavioral and Social Emotional Development of Infants and Children

Ed Tronick

Overview – Topics Included

 

Topics include:

Part One: Neurobehavior. Neonatal Behavioral Assessment Scale; the effects of prenatal cocaine exposure on newborn neurobehavioral performance.

Part Two: Culture. Cross-cultural studies of development; the role of culture in brain organization, child development, and parenting; multiple caretaking in the context of evolution; regulatory systems for Peruvian infants at high altitudes; mother-infant interaction among the Gusii of Kenya

Part Three: Social Emotional Interaction. Challenges to the coping infant; emotions and emotional communication in infants; a mutual regulation model; infant-mother face-to-face interaction; the transfer of affect between mothers and infants.

Part Four: Perturbations: Natural and Experimental. The primary of social skills in infancy; the infant's response to entrapment between contradictory messages in face-to-face interaction; depressed mothers and infants; infants' response to mothers' affective behavior; impact of maternal psychiatric illness of infant development; effects of maternal depression and panic disorder on mother-infant interactive behavior in the face-to-face still-face paradigm; gender differences and their relation to maternal depression; infant moods and the chronicity of depressive symptoms.

Part Five: Dyadic Expansion of Consciousness and Meaning Making. Dyadically expanded states of consciousness and the process of therapeutic change; implicit relational knowing; non-interpretive mechanisms in psychoanalytic therapy; emotional connections and dyadic consciousness in infant-mother and patient-therapist interactions; a model of infant mood states; how co-creative processes generate unique mother-infant and patient-therapist relationships; understanding therapeutic change; the formation of dyadic states of consciousness

ISBN 10: 0-393-70517-X
ISBN 13: 978-0-393-70517-1
July 2007 / 604 pages / Cloth with DVD