The Handbook of Infant Mental Health, edited by Charles H. Zeanah Jr., in its fourth edition, serves as the definitive reference for professionals working with infants and young children. This comprehensive volume examines typical and atypical development from birth to the preschool years, providing a thorough exploration of key factors influencing infant mental health. The authors delve into neurobiological, family, and sociocultural dimensions, placing particular emphasis on primary caregiving relationships.

Newly revised with 75% new material, this edition includes chapters on genetic and epigenetic processes, executive functions, historical trauma, and neglect. It also covers additional clinical problems such as hyperactivity and inattention, sensory overresponsivity, and relationship-specific disorder. The book features chapters on emerging interventions like attachment and biobehavioral catch-up, video-feedback intervention to promote positive parenting and sensitive discipline, parent–child interaction therapy, and home visiting programs. Existing chapters have been thoroughly updated to reflect a decade’s worth of empirical and clinical advances.

With its extensive coverage and up-to-date information, this handbook is essential reading for researchers, clinicians, and students in the field of infant mental health, as well as for professionals working in mental health, primary care, child care, and child welfare settings.

Publication Date: October 9, 2018

Print Length: 678 pages

ISBN-10: 1462537103

ISBN-13: 978-1462537105

Publisher: The Guilford Press

Dimensions: 7 x 1.15 x 10 inches