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Dieses Praxis-Manual leistet Hilfestellung, psychische Auffälligkeiten im Säuglings- und Kleinkindalter im pädagogischen Alltag von Reifungsphänomenen zu unterscheiden, die eigenen pädagogischen Handlungs- und Beratungsmöglichkeiten zu erkennen, weiteren Hilfebedarf einzuschätzen, diesen gut zu kommunizieren und manifesten Störungen vorzubeugen. Es versteht sich als Handbuch mit wichtigen Schwerpunkten für die Praxis, in dem auch kurzfristig nachgeschlagen werden kann. Es richtet sich in erster Linie an Personen, die Säuglinge und Kleinkinder betreuen, kann jedoch auch für behandelnde Berufsgruppen und interessierte Laien hilfreich sein.Ihr Wegweiser für den pädagogischen Alltag, der Sie einlädt, Ihr Wissen anzuwenden.

Frühe Regulations- und Bindungsstörungen von Säuglingen und Kleinkindern schreiben sich in ihr Körpergedächtnis ein. In der Körperpsychotherapie mit Eltern und Babys helfen Berührungen, Atmung und achtsame Körperwahrnehmung, die während Schwangerschaft, Geburt und erster Lebenszeit erfahrenen Verletzungen zu überwinden. In den letzten drei Jahrzehnten ist eine Vielfalt von neuen Ansätzen in der Körperpsychotherapie mit Eltern, Säuglingen und Kleinkindern entstanden. Dieser Sammelband vermittelt einen Überblick über die Strömungen, Hintergründe und Einsatzbereiche der körperorientierten Eltern-Säuglings-Kleinkind-Beratung und -Psychotherapie. Praxisnah berichten international bekannte Fachleute aus dem Feld der Körperpsychotherapie, wie sie Eltern und Babys dabei unterstützen, früh erfahrene Verletzungen und Bindungstraumata zu verarbeiten. Mit Beiträgen von Matthew Appleton, Dirk Beckedorf, Regina Bücher, Mechthild Deyringer, Paula Diederichs, Peter Geißler, Thomas Greil, Thomas Harms, Christine Hausch, Ludwig Janus, Klaus Käppeli, Doris Lange, Sabrina Mathea, Rudolf Merkel, Gerd Poerschke, Franz Renggli, Petra Saltuari, Antonia Stulz-Koller, Sabine Trautmann-Voigt, Inga Wagenknecht und Anja Weiffen

This book is out of print. See Autism Spectrum Disorder in the First Years of Life: Research, Assessment, and Treatment, edited by Katarzyna Chawarska and Fred R. Volkmar (ISBN 978-1-4625-4323-6).

Infant and Early Childhood Mental Health: A Comprehensive Developmental Approach to Assessment and Intervention redefines how we work with infants, young children, and their families when mental health, developmental, or learning problems occur.The authors, who are recognized as the world's foremost authorities on clinical work with emotional and developmental challenges in the early years of life, 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.Greenspan and Wieder show how these mental health and developmental challenges can be classified according to each child's unique emotion, cognitive, language, and sensory processing profile. Most importantly, they demonstrate and present their new data on the most effective ways of intervening with these challenges, demonstrating how even children with the most severe mental health and developmental problems can make more progress than formerly thought possible in learning to relate, communicate, and think meaningfully and adaptively. Infant and Early Childhood Mental Health is divided into four parts: • Part I presents the DIR model, including how biology and experience come together at each developmental stage to shape a child's relative mastery of the six core developmental capacities: basic attention and self-regulation; warmth and engagement; two-way, preverbal, purposeful communication and emotional signaling; organization of affective gestures into a continuous flow of problem-solving interactions; the emotional use of ideas in language or in pretend play; and the creation of logical bridges between two or more ideas.• Part II focuses on principles of assessment and intervention. It shows how the DIR approach to assessment and intervention harnesses the contributions of psychodynamic, behavioral, and educational approaches but goes beyond these to create a truly developmental, biopsychosocial approach that can identify and tailor interventions to each infant and/or child and family's unique profile.• Part III uses composite case studies to illustrate the principles of clinical evaluation and intervention to describe assessment and intervention strategies appropriate for different classes of infant and childhood disorders, including interactive disorders, regulatory-sensory processing disorders, and disorders of relating and communicating, such as autism.• Part IV presents a new model of early identification, prevention, and early intervention that can be used in primary health care, educational, mental health, and developmental programs. The model provides guidelines for parents and other caregivers to help infants and young children master and strengthen basic emotional, language, and cognitive capacities. For clinicians, researchers, and educators alike, Infant and Early Childhood Mental Health is simply the definitive resource for working with infants, young children, and their families.

Published also as 26 (1986 Spring) of 発達.

Countless studies have demonstrated the power of early intervention to permanently alter the course of a child's life. Yet -- heightened by the past decade's research breakthroughs in genetics -- the nature vs. nurture controversy rages on.This volume dispels some of the persistent myths surrounding this controversy. Unlike largely theoretical texts that describe infant behavioral and emotional difficulties and other psychosocial challenges affecting young children, this eminently practical guide illustrates what to do in numerous clinical situations with actual patients. Written by clinicians who work with infants and children and their families every day, this reality-based approach addresses the most common and important problems in infant psychopathology (e.g., trauma, sleep, feeding, excessive crying, attachment disruptions), covering models of intervention from pregnancy through infancy, attachment issues, and transgenerational themes. Here, you'll find topics rarely addressed elsewhere: • The theoretical and clinical implications of trauma during early childhood and its effects on emotional regulation, cognition, and attachment, including potential disruptions of attachment -- a topic widely overlooked in the life of young children, perhaps because of the distress it produces in adults to think that infants can be subject to violence, witness major traumatic events, and experience consequences from such events• Techniques, such as multimodal parent-infant psychotherapy, for working effectively with families -- once considered'unreachable'-- who are under severe stress and have endured multiple disruptions, disappointments, and marginalization• A timely discussion of a rarely addressed problem on the importance of early intervention and the effects of day care for infants, from the point of view of the infant exposed to multiple caretakers, addressing the very difficult questions of the effects on infants of changes in caretakers• How young children use their bodies and its functions to manifest their difficulties, focusing on sleeping, crying, and eating with practical suggestions that can be widely applied by health care professionals• Unique commentaries on two case examples by a diverse international panel of clinicians and researchers -- from countries such as Argentina, Canada, France, Japan, Mexico, Switzerland, the UK, and the U.S. -- illustrating the differences of opinion, approaches, and perspectives that together generate more effective assessment and treatment This thought-provoking clinical reference is a'must read'for developmental, child, and adolescent psychiatry educators and practitioners -- and nurses, pediatricians, occupational therapists, and clinical social workers -- as they help the youngest members of our community through theoretical understanding and practical intervention.