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AbstractAt a time when our guidance is increasingly sought by parents, courts, and social policy planners, it is critical that infant mental health professionals establish clearer standards for training, engage in more rigorous self‐monitoring of our clinicalandour research efforts, and recognize the extraordinary risks for bias in all of our work. It is not necessary that we speak with one voice. In fact, our field has been enriched by its transdisciplinary nature and by its many points of view. But it is critical that we offer assessments, engage in treatment, conduct our research, and do our teaching free of uncontrolled contamination byour ownunresolved childhood experiences, our idealizations, our needs for control: in short, that we be truly open to the data and truly available to the families. Examples are offered of the risks if we fail, and a call is made for careful transdisciplinary training, supervision, individual psychotherapy, and collegial monitoring for infant mental health clinicians, researchers, and educators, alik

ISSN:0163-9641    

DOI:10.1002/1097-0355(198823)9:3<191::AID-IMHJ2280090302>3.0.CO;2-1

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年代:1988

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AbstractThe Brazelton Neonatal Behavioral Assessment Scale is the most widely used and accepted tool in the study of the behavior of the human newborn; yet there remains some controversy over the most appropriate way to score the results. The present research compares three a priori methods of scoring. The sample consisted of 43 infants: (a) 11 preterms, (b) 10 fullterms in intensive care, (c) 7 fullterms with sick mothers, and (d) 15 healthy fullterms. BNBAS exams administered to these four groups of infants were scored using the Als (1978), Lester, Als, and Brazelton (1982), and Jacobsen, Fein, Jacobsen, and Schwartz (1984) clusters. The data from these three methods were analyzed by means of one‐way ANOVAs for group differences. In addition, a factor analysis on the BNBAS scores was also completed. These three approaches all detected differences between medically at‐risk and healthy infants on those items assessing motor maturity and orientation. These results suggest that at this time no one scoring system can capture the richness of behavior of the newborn and address the question by researchers, clinicians, and pare

ISSN:0163-9641    

DOI:10.1002/1097-0355(198823)9:3<201::AID-IMHJ2280090303>3.0.CO;2-4

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年代:1988

数据来源: WILEY

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AbstractAn analysis of the score differences and characteristics achieved by 9‐ and 15‐month‐old infants tested twice with the Bayley Scales of Infant Development, one week apart, shows marked variations between what could be considered optimal estimates of ability and estimates of ability based on actual scores. There is approximately a 50% chance that an infant's actual Developmental Quotient from a single examination will differ from its optimal score by more than one standard deviation of the BSID. The fact that single test scores do not reliably estimate “true” capabilities reconfirms that a caveat be maintained concerning the use of single Bayley scores as baselines of longitudinal research or as outcome measures, but holds out the possibility that the usefulness of such scores as predictive of outcome measures can be improved over its present negligible status through repeated as

ISSN:0163-9641    

DOI:10.1002/1097-0355(198823)9:3<209::AID-IMHJ2280090304>3.0.CO;2-E

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年代:1988

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AbstractLateral preferences in parents' cradling and holding of their infants were assessed in a longitudinal study commencing 1–3 days after birth and ending at 18 months. Right‐handed parents showed a consistent left‐side preference, which declined slightly as the infants grew older. Left‐handed mothers showed an initial left‐side preference and then more variable holding behavior, including right‐side preferences, in some conditions. No relationship between the parents' holding behavior and two measures of infant head posture was found. It is suggested that parental side‐holding preferences and infant head orientation biases are components of a biobehavioral system designed to enhance the organization of the caregiver‐infa

ISSN:0163-9641    

DOI:10.1002/1097-0355(198823)9:3<218::AID-IMHJ2280090305>3.0.CO;2-D

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年代:1988

数据来源: WILEY

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AbstractThis study examines the effects of high‐risk pregnancies on the maternal perception of the full‐term healthy infant, as well as the influence of social support systems on these effects. Thirty mothers after high‐risk pregnancy and 30 mothers after low‐risk pregnancy were interviewed when their infants were 3 months old. Their perceptions of own and average baby were evaluated as well as the amount and availability of and their satisfaction with social support. The obtained results confirm the hypothesis that mothers after high‐risk pregnancies tend to perceive their infant as significantly more difficult than mothers after low‐risk pregnancies. A main finding of this study is that high‐risk pregnancy mothers perceive an average baby in a much more positive way. Social support was not found to affect significantly the maternal negative perception of the infant after a high‐risk pregnancy. These findings are discussed in the context of the continuity of the process of maternal affiliation to the infant before and

ISSN:0163-9641    

DOI:10.1002/1097-0355(198823)9:3<235::AID-IMHJ2280090306>3.0.CO;2-H

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年代:1988

数据来源: WILEY

ISSN:0163-9641    

DOI:10.1002/1097-0355(198823)9:3<245::AID-IMHJ2280090307>3.0.CO;2-D

出版商:Wiley Subscription Services, Inc., A Wiley Company    

年代:1988

数据来源: WILEY

ISSN:0163-9641    

DOI:10.1002/1097-0355(198823)9:3<::AID-IMHJ2280090301>3.0.CO;2-I

出版商:Wiley Subscription Services, Inc., A Wiley Company    

年代:1988

数据来源: WILEY