Infant/child mental health, early intervention, and relationship-based therapies: A neurorelational framework for interdisciplinary practice
✍ Scribed by Connie Lilas; Janiece Turnbull
- Book ID
- 102279797
- Publisher
- John Wiley and Sons
- Year
- 2011
- Tongue
- English
- Weight
- 38 KB
- Volume
- 32
- Category
- Article
- ISSN
- 0163-9641
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✦ Synopsis
provides a "unifying, interdisciplinary framework based on current neuroscience research into how infants and children develop in the context of relationships and their surroundings." This book targets an interdisciplinary audience, seeking to help professionals at multiple levels (i.e., psychologists, neurologists, education specialists, and researchers) integrate knowledge with practice. The book provides an excellent description of a complex topic for multiple audiences and provides specific guidance on its clinical applications. In addition, both authors share autobiographical experiences that provide a practical and understandable context for the reader.
The book is divided into three parts. Part 1 ("The Big Picture") includes chapters 1 to 3, which describe the overall neurorelational framework. Part 2 ("The Brain Systems") includes chapters 4 to 11, which focus on the four brain systems of the neurorelational framework: the regulation system, the sensory system, the relevance system, and the executive system. Part 3 ("Bringing It All Together") consists of chapter 12, a synthesis of the book's concepts, with a discussion of future directions for research and practice.
Chapter 1 describes four problems that professionals in the helping professions experience when working with children: fragmentation (including the lack of coordination among disciplines working with children), isolation (the ways in which professional training often lacks transdisciplinary connections), hierarchy (the ways in which the culture of professional work with children assigns value to some professions over others, silencing some voices and amplifying others), and specialization (focusing on the language utilized within-discipline, which often creates problems across disciplines). The chapter goes on to discuss the necessity of drawing on multiple disciplines to assess common presenting problems and describes theories such as Sameroff and Chandler's Transactional Model and Greenspan and Wieder's