Theory and Research in Behavioral Pediatrics

Volume 1

Hiram Fitzgerald (Autor)

Buch | Softcover

290 Seiten

2013 | Softcover reprint of the original 1st ed. 1982
Springer-Verlag New York Inc.
978-1-4899-0444-7 (ISBN)

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This volume initiates a series devoted to theory and research in behavioral pedi atrics. Focusing attention on the limited scientific contributions to understanding the development of behavior will, we hope, stimulate further research in this vitally important area of human knowledge. The ability of an individual to achieve his or her full potential as an adult is to a significant degree determined by critical variables in this development within a given society. Study of this aspect of human biology, therefore, may have far-reaching effects on the evolving human species. An awareness of the complexity of the behavioral patterns in infancy is of relatively recent origin and is an obvious essential starting point for this series of publications. The need to discriminate between objective observations and theo retical constructs and to design scientifically valid experiments is vital to progress in understanding early infant behavior. It is easy to misinterpret apparent responses to interventions, especially in infants at biological risk. Preterm infants and their caretakers are particularly challenging as subjects but very difficult to assess scientifically. The interactions between mother and newborn and father and newborn hold promise of substantial additional insights into the development of behavior. Thus, this volume provides interesting perspectives into the relationship of the evolving immature neurological system to complex behavior patterns in newborn infants which raise many new questions and exciting opportunities to extend our very limited knowledge about the newborn infant's psychosocial, emo tional, and cognitive development. RICHARD E. BEHRMAN, M. D.

1. Early Intervention: What Does It Mean?.- 2. Toward a Research Instrument for the Assessment of Preterm Infants’ Behavior (APIB).- 3. A Biobehavioral Perspective on Crying in Early Infancy.- 4. The Role of Physical Appearance in Infant and Child Development Katherine A. Hildebrandt.- 5. Development of the Father-Infant Relationship.- Author Index.

Zusatzinfo	XVIII, 290 p.
Verlagsort	New York
Sprache	englisch
Maße	155 x 235 mm
Themenwelt	Geisteswissenschaften ► Psychologie ► Entwicklungspsychologie
	Geisteswissenschaften ► Psychologie ► Pädagogische Psychologie
	Medizin / Pharmazie ► Medizinische Fachgebiete ► Pädiatrie
	Naturwissenschaften ► Biologie ► Humanbiologie
	Naturwissenschaften ► Biologie ► Zoologie
ISBN-10	1-4899-0444-1 / 1489904441
ISBN-13	978-1-4899-0444-7 / 9781489904447
Zustand	Neuware