Collaborative Consultation with Parents and Infants in the Perinatal Period
$103.83
- Paperback
232 pages
- Release Date
27 June 2012
Summary
When professionals listen to and support new parents in the perinatal period, families enjoy long-lasting benefits—from stronger attachment to increased parent responsiveness and confidence. This guidebook shows practitioners how to conduct effective, collaborative consultation sessions that help parents and infants in the critical first few months of life.
Developed by an experienced clinician and researcher, this accessible guide helps practitioners form productive, equal partner…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9781598570786 |
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| ISBN-10: | 1598570781 |
| Author: | Zack Boukydis |
| Publisher: | Brookes Publishing Co |
| Imprint: | Brookes Publishing Co |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 232 |
| Release Date: | 27 June 2012 |
| Weight: | 456g |
| Dimensions: | 251mm x 181mm x 11mm |
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Critics Review
“Very practical, but still grounded in research … a novel and valuable contribution to the infant mental health literature.”
“Very practical, but still grounded in research … a novel and valuable contribution to the infant mental health literature.” –Angela M. Tomlin, Ph.D.
About The Author
Zack Boukydis
Zack Boukydis, Ph.D., was a developmental/clinical psychologist whose career was devoted to research and clinical work with mothers, families, and babies. He was the editor or coeditor of three books: Support for Parents and Infants: A Manual for Parenting Organizations and Professionals (Routledge & Kegan Paul, 1986), Research on Support for Parents and Infants in the Postnatal Period (Ablex, 1987), and Infant Crying: Theoretical and Research Perspectives (with Barry M. Lester, Plenum Press, 1985), as well as the author of numerous research publications and grants.
Throughout his career, Dr. Boukydis� ™s work focused on the influence of infant crying on parents, the neurobehavioral development of at-risk infants (including preterm and substance-exposed infants), interventions to support families in neonatal intensive care units and mothers and infants in drug treatment programs, and an ultrasound consultation program in which practitioners joined with mothers and families in watching their baby during routine ultrasound screens in obstetric clinics. He was a focusing coordinator and focusing-oriented therapist with the Focusing Institute of New York and developed a special international training program, Focusing- Oriented Parent-Infant Consultation: Bringing Focusing to Work with Parents and Infants. He was also a trainer on the NICU Network Neurobehavioral Scale (NNNS™; Paul H. Brookes Publishing Co., 2004) in the United States, Europe, and Africa. Dr. Boukydis was a member of the Harris Professional Development Network and was a Fulbright Fellow between the United States and Hungary.
Dr. Boukydis was on the editorial review board of the Journal of Visualized Experiments and was a reviewer for Acta Paediatrica. He was on the faculty of the Department of Pediatrics, Semmelweis Medical School, and the Institute of Psychology, Eotvos Lorand University, Budapest, Hungary, and was Visiting Professor, Department of Pediatrics, University of Turku, Turku, Finland.
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