Transforming Infant Wellbeing : Research, Policy and Practice for the First 1001 Critical Days (Paperback)

Preface

Acknowledgements

          Part I. Issues in infant wellbeing

1. Fifty years of childhood

Penelope Leach

2. Changing society’s attitudes to children and families

Al Aynsley-Green

Part II. Evidence

A: Early experiences and later outcomes 

    3. Circuits and circumstances: importance of earliest relationships and their context.

Robin Balbernie

    4. Attachment theory: research and application to practice and policy

Pasco Fearon

    5. Maternal representations in pregnancy: importance of the mothers' relationship with their unborn babies

Jane Barlow

    6. Keeping the baby in mind: new insights into the links between maternal childhood trauma, mental health problems in pregnancy and outcomes for the child

Susan Pawlby, Dominic Plant, Carmine M. Pariante

     7. Postnatal depression and the under-twos

Lynne Murray and Peter Cooper

B: Perinatal Risk Factors with demonstrable long-term ill-effects

     8. Health inequalities and the importance of action on perinatal risk factors

Angela Donkin and Michael Marmot

     9. Stacked odds: how social background can stifle early child potential

Chris Cuthbert

    10. Antenatal and postnatal mental health problems: prevention and treatment

Alain Gregoire

    11. Stress in pregnancy can change fetal and child development

Vivette Glover

    12. Birth trauma

Diane S. Speier

C. Policies with potential to reduce risks and improve outcomes

13. Investing in early human development

Mary E. Young

       14. What makes a difference? Supporting families in caring for children

Peter Fonagy

      15. Evidence-based interventions for the first 1001 days

Kirsten Asmussen, Leon Feinstein, Haroon Chowdry, Jack Martin

     16. Transforming infancy through paternity and parental leave

Margaret O’Brien

     17. Towards an evidence-based population approach to supporting parenting in the early years

Matthew R. Sanders and Alina Morawska

D: Specific Programmes Demonstrating Improved Outcomes

 

      18. Relationship-based interventions in the early years

Robin Balbernie

      19. Child protection in the community: recognising and responding to signs of neglect

Ruth Gardner and Camilla Rosan

    20. Mellow programmes for especially vulnerable parents and parents-to-be

Christine Puckering

    21. Fathers in the perinatal period: taking their mental health into account

Jill Domoney, Jane Iles, Paul Ramchandani

    22. 'SafeCare', the case for parent--infant language training

Angie S. Guinn, John R. Lutzker, Mark Chaffin

    23. Video Interaction Guidance: promoting secure attachment and optimal development for children, parents and professionals

Hilary Kennedy and Angela Underdown

   24. Life is 'like a box of chocolates': interventions with special-needs babies

Stella Acquarone

Part III Action

25. Themes arising

    26. Norfolk Parent-Infant Mental Health Attachment Project (PRIMAP): working towards integration in attachment, mental health and social care

Verity Smith, Richard Pratt, Catherine Thomas and Danny Taggart

    27. Building research findings into policy and policy into action