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Record Nr.

UNINA9910823479103321

Titolo

Handbook of infant biopsychosocial development / / edited by Susan D. Calkins

Pubbl/distr/stampa

New York, New York ; ; London, England : , : The Guilford Press, , 2015

©2015

ISBN

1-4625-2213-0

1-4625-2256-4

1-4625-2216-5

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (498 p.)

Disciplina

305.232

Soggetti

Infants - Development

Infants - Growth

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references at the end of each chapters and index.

Nota di contenuto

Cover; Half Title Page; Title Page; Copyright; About the Editor; Contributors; Preface; Contents; Part I. Setting the Stage; 1. Introduction to the Volume: Seeing Infant Development through a Biopsychosocial Lens; 2. Gilbert Gottlieb and the Biopsychosocial Perspective on Developmental Issues; Part II. Perceptual and Cognitive Processes; 3. Introduction to Part II: Bringing the Field of Infant Cognition and Perception toward a Biopsychosocial Perspective; 4. A Biopsychosocial Perspective on Looking Behavior in Infancy; 5. Biopsychosocial Perspectives on the Development of Attentionin Infancy

6. The Development and Brain Mechanisms of Joint Attention7. The Development of Declarative Memory in Infancy and Implications for Social Learning; 8. Infant Word Learning in Biopsychosocial Perspective; Part III. Social and Emotional Processes; 9. Introduction to Part III: Reweaving the Strands-Biology, Behavior, Context; 10. A Psychobiological Perspective on Emotional Development within the Family Context; 11. A Biopsychosocial Framework for Infant Temperament and Socioemotional Development; 12. Genetic Correlates of Early Maternal Caregiving



13. A Biopsychosocial Perspective on Synchrony and the Development of Human Parental CarePart IV. Adversity and Risk: Implications for Infant Development; 14. Introduction to Part IV: Current Directions in the Study of Risk and Adversity in Infancy; 15. Adversity in Early Social Relationships; 16. The Social Ecology of Infant Sleep: Structural and Qualitative Features of Bedtime and Nighttime Parenting and Infant Sleep in the First Year; 17. Infant Vulnerability to Psychopathology; Part V. The Future of Infancy Research

18. An Interdisciplinary Biopsychosocial Perspective on Psychological DevelopmentAuthor Index; Subject Index

Sommario/riassunto

The first two years of life are a period of unparalleled growth and change. Within a state-of-the-art biopsychosocial framework, this innovative volume explores the multiple contexts of infant development--the ways in which genes, neurobiology, behavior, and environment interact and shape each other over time. Methods for disentangling, measuring, and analyzing complex, nonlinear developmental processes are presented. Contributors explore influences on the infant's growth in major domains, including cognitive and socioemotional functioning and mental health. The consequences of family stress,