Infant Mental Health

Abstract This review explores diverse theories that provide the basis and rationale for infant mental health, a relatively new service designed to reduce social and emotional disturbances in infancy and early parenthood. Psychoanalytic theory, attachment theory, social and contextual theories, developmental theories and the work of Donald Winnicott and Daniel Stern contribute to the fundamentals of infant mental health practice, increasing the understanding of development in early childhood and the power of relationships in defining a context for social and emotional growth. Infant mental health practice influences psycho therapeutic change in early parenthood and the possibility of attachment security in early infancy.

[1]  E. Waters,et al.  Growing points of attachment theory and research , 1985 .

[2]  D. C. van den Boom The influence of temperament and mothering on attachment and exploration: an experimental manipulation of sensitive responsiveness among lower-class mothers with irritable infants. , 1994, Child development.

[3]  D. Stern,et al.  Moving along to things left undone , 1998 .

[4]  R. Spitz,et al.  Anaclitic depression; an inquiry into the genesis of psychiatric conditions in early childhood. , 1946, The Psychoanalytic study of the child.

[5]  D. Stern,et al.  IMPLICIT RELATIONAL KNOWING: ITS ROLE IN DEVELOPMENT AND PSYCHOANALYTIC TREATMENT , 1998 .

[6]  C. Zeanah,et al.  Contributions of attachment theory to infant–parent psychotherapy and other interventions with infants and young children. , 1999 .

[7]  J. Piaget The construction of reality in the child , 1954 .

[8]  Mabel Ross,et al.  NORMALITY AND PATHOLOGY IN CHILDHOOD—ASSESSMENTS OF DEVELOPMENT , 1966 .

[9]  O. Ekeberg,et al.  [Anaclitic depression]. , 1986, Tidsskrift for den Norske laegeforening : tidsskrift for praktisk medicin, ny raekke.

[10]  D. Laplane Thought and language. , 1992, Behavioural neurology.

[11]  S. Fraiberg,et al.  An abandoned mother, an abandoned baby. , 1977, Bulletin of the Menninger Clinic.

[12]  I. Bretherton,et al.  Internal working models in attachment relationships: A construct revisited. , 1999 .

[13]  J. Flavell The Developmental psychology of Jean Piaget , 1963 .

[14]  B. Egeland,et al.  Infant-mother attachment: factors related to its development and changes over time. , 1984, Child development.

[15]  Erik Hesse,et al.  The adult attachment interview: Historical and current perspectives. , 1999 .

[16]  B. Egeland,et al.  Attachments past and present: Implications for therapeutic intervention with mother-infant dyads , 1992, Development and Psychopathology.

[17]  G. W. Rever Attachment and Loss. Vol. 1. Attachment , 1972 .

[18]  L. Lunsky Childhood and Society. , 1965 .

[19]  S. Mitchell,et al.  Object Relations in Psychoanalytic Theory , 1983 .

[20]  A. Freud The Ego and the Mechanisms of Defence , 1960 .

[21]  P Fonagy,et al.  Maternal representations of attachment during pregnancy predict the organization of infant-mother attachment at one year of age. , 1991, Child development.

[22]  M. Ainsworth,et al.  Effects on infant-mother attachment of mother's unresolved loss of an attachment figure, or other traumatic experience. , 1991 .

[23]  S. Freud,et al.  An outline of psycho-analysis , 1969 .

[24]  John Bowlby,et al.  Loss--Sadness and Depression , 1980 .

[25]  T. A. Ratcliffe,et al.  The Family and Individual Development , 1965, Mental Health.

[26]  Joann L. Robinson,et al.  THEORETICAL FOUNDATIONS OF A PROGRAM OF HOME VISITATION FOR PREGNANT WOMEN AND PARENTS OF YOUNG CHILDREN , 1997 .

[27]  E. Muir Watching, waiting, and wondering: Applying psychoanalytic principals to mother-infant intervention , 1992 .

[28]  Daniel N. Stern,et al.  The Motherhood Constellation , 1995 .

[29]  I. Bretherton,et al.  Attachment theory: Retrospect and prospect. , 1985 .

[30]  M. Harmon,et al.  The Maturational Processes and the Facilitating Environment , 1967 .

[31]  D. Benoit,et al.  Stability and transmission of attachment across three generations. , 1994, Child development.

[32]  Marinus H. van IJzendoorn,et al.  Sensitivity and attachment: a meta-analysis on parental antecedents of infant attachment. , 1997, Child development.

[33]  B. Cramer Mother—infant psychotherapies: A widening scope in technique , 1998 .

[34]  R. C. Fraley,et al.  Attachment and Loss , 2018 .

[35]  J. J. Gallagher Preventive intervention. , 1973, Pediatric clinics of North America.

[36]  J. Bowlby,et al.  The nature of the child's tie to his mother. , 1958, The International journal of psycho-analysis.

[37]  Marinus H. van IJzendoorn,et al.  Adult attachment representations, parental responsiveness, and infant attachment: a meta-analysis on the predictive validity of the Adult Attachment Interview. , 1995, Psychological bulletin.

[38]  V. Binney Clinical applications of attachment theory. , 1997, The British journal of clinical psychology.

[39]  Daniel N. Stern,et al.  The First Relationship: Infant and Mother , 1977 .

[40]  S. Fraiberg,et al.  Ghosts in the Nursery: A Psychoanalytic Approach to the Problems of Impaired Infant-Mother Relationships , 1975 .

[41]  D. Stern The Interpersonal World of the Infant: A View from Psychoanalysis and Developmental Psychology , 2019 .

[42]  G. Ammon What is psychoanalytic therapy? , 1974, Psychotherapy and psychosomatics.

[43]  D. Stern,et al.  A model for conceptualizing the role of the mother's representational world in various mother‐infant therapies , 1989 .

[44]  P. H. Miller Theories of developmental psychology , 1983 .

[45]  J. Garbarino The ecology of human development: Experiments by nature and design: by Urie Bronfenbrenner Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 1979, 330 + p. , 1980 .

[46]  J. Hopkins Infant-parent psychotherapy , 1992 .

[47]  A. Lieberman,et al.  Preventive intervention and outcome with anxiously attached dyads. , 1991, Child development.

[48]  M. Main,et al.  Procedures for identifying infants as disorganized/disoriented during the Ainsworth Strange Situation. , 1990 .

[49]  B. M. Wright An approach to infant-parent psychotherapy , 1986 .

[50]  Mary L Wentworth Handbook of Infant Mental Health , 1995 .

[51]  Mary D. Salter Ainsworth,et al.  14. The Development of Infant-Mother Attachment , 1982 .

[52]  Infants, Toddlers, and Families: A Framework for Support and Intervention , 1999 .

[53]  S. Freud The Standard Edition of the Complete Psychological Works of Sigmund Freud , 1953 .

[54]  A. Freud Infants without families , 1973 .

[55]  M. Papoušek,et al.  DISORDERS OF EXCESSIVE CRYING, FEEDING, AND SLEEPING: THE MUNICH INTERDISCIPLINARY RESEARCH AND INTERVENTION PROGRAM , 1998 .

[56]  Marinus H. van IJzendoorn,et al.  Sensitivity and Attachment: A Meta‐Analysis on Parental Antecedents of Infant Attachment , 1997 .

[57]  Jay Belsky,et al.  Clinical implications of attachment , 1988 .

[58]  L. Lunsky Identity and the Life Cycle. , 1966 .

[59]  S. Greenspan,et al.  Infancy and Early Childhood: The Practice of Clinical Assessment and Intervention With Emotional and Developmental Challenges , 1992 .

[60]  J. Cassidy The nature of the child's ties. , 1999 .