WAIMH Handbook of Infant Mental Health, Parenting and Child Care

Joy D. Osofsky is the editor of WAIMH Handbook of Infant Mental Health, Volume 3, Parenting and Child Care, published by Wiley.Hiram E. Fitzgerald is Associate Provost for University Outreach and Engagement, University Distinguished Professor of Psychology, and Adjunct Professor in Human Development and Family Studies at Michigan State University.

• Child Care, Parenting, and Public Policy (B. Ablon & S.Bemporad). Parenting Toddlers: Developmental and Clinical Considerations (A.Lieberman & A. Slade). The Emotional Lives of African American Parents in TheirInterpretations of Emotions of Infants (M. Lewis). Why Poverty Matters for Young Children: Implications for Policy (J.Brooks-Gunn, et al.). Understanding Parenting: Contributions of Attachmnent Theory andResearch (L. Berlin & J. Cassidy). The Story of Mothers who are Difficult to Engage in PreventionPrograms (S. Spieker, et al.). Parenting Infants (M. Bornstein). Prebirth Parent Characteristics and Early Family Development (C.Heinicke). Fathering Infants (W. Horn). Intuitive Parenting (H. Papousek). Toward an Integrated Theory of Maternal Caregiving (J. Solomon& C. George). Exploring Triangular Relationships in Infancy (E.Fivaz-Depeursinge, et al.). Indexes.

"...an impressive collection of information...""...will serve as amajor resource for clinicians, researchers, scholars and studentsof human development in the years to come." (Int Jnl of AdolescentMedicine & Health, 13th January 2000)