Ebook: The Neurobehavioral and Social-Emotional Development of Infants and Children

Introduction -- pt. I. Neurobehavior -- 1. The Neonatal Behavioral Assessment Scale as a biomarker of the effects of environmental agents on the newborn -- 2. Behavioral assessment scales : the NICU Network Neurobehavioral Scale, the Neonatal Behavioral Assessment Scale, and the Assessment of the Preterm Infant's Behavior -- 3. Kicking coordination captures differences between full-term and premature infants with white matter disorder -- 4. Late dose-response effects of prenatal cocaine exposure on newborn neurobehavioral performance -- 5. Similar and functionally typical kinematic reaching parameters in 7- and 15-month-old in utero cocaine-exposed and unexposed infants -- pt. II. Culture -- 6. Introduction : cross-cultural studies of development -- 7. The role of culture in brain organization, child development, and parenting -- 8. Multiple caretaking in the context of human evolution : why don't the Efe know the Western prescription for child care? -- 9. The manta pouch : a regulatory system for Peruvian infants at high altitude -- 10. Mother-infant interaction among the Gusii of Kenya -- pt. III. Infant social-emotional interaction -- 11. Interactive mismatch and repair : challenges to the coping infant -- 12. Emotions and emotional communication in infants -- 13. The mutual regulation model : the infant's self and interactive regulation and coping and defensive capacities -- 14. Infant-mother face-to-face interaction : age and gender differences in coordination and the occurrence of miscoordination -- 15. The transfer of affect between mothers and infants -- 16. Mother-infant face-to-face interaction : influence is bidirectional and unrelated to periodic cycles in either partner's behavior -- 17. Beyond the face : an empirical study of infant affective configurations of facial, vocal, gestural, and regulatory behaviors -- pt. IV. Perturbations : natural and experimental -- 18. The primacy of social skills in infancy -- 19. The infant's response to entrapment between contradictory messages in face-to-face interaction -- 20. Depressed mothers and infants : the failure to form dyadic states of consciousness -- 21. Specificity of infants' response to mothers' affective behavior -- 22. The impact of maternal psychiatric illness on infant development -- 23. Making up is hard to do, especially for mothers with high levels of depressive symptoms and their infant sons -- 24. Gender differences and their relation to maternal depression -- 25. Infant moods and the chronicity of depressive symptoms : the cocreation of unique ways of being together for good or ill. Paper 1. The normal process of development and the formation of moods -- 26. Infant moods and the chronicity of depressive symptoms : the cocreation of unique ways of being together for good or ill. Paper 2. The formation of negative moods in infants and children of depressed mothers -- 27. The stress of normal development and interaction leads to the development of resilience and variation in resilience -- pt. V. Dyadic expansion of consciousness and meaning making -- 28. Infant responses to impending collision : optical and real -- 29. Dyadically expanded states of consciousness and the process of therapeutic change -- 30. Implicit relational knowing : its role in development and psychoanalytic treatment -- 31. Noninterpretive mechanisms in psychoanalytic therapy : the "something more" than interpretation -- 32. Emotional connections and dyadic consciousness in infant-mother and patient-therapist interactions : commentary on a paper by Frank Lachmann -- 33. A model of infant mood states and Sandarian affective waves -- 34. "Of course all relationships are unique" : how cocreative processes generate unique mother-infant and patient-therapist relationships and change other relationships -- 35. Why is connection with others so critical? : the formation of dyadic states of consciousness and the expansion of individuals' states of consciousness -- 36. Contributions to understanding therapeutic change : now we have a playground.