Springer Regulatory Disorders in Infants: Assessment, Diagnosis, and Treatment

This innovative book discusses current findings on regulatory disorders in infants and offers practical guidelines for diagnosis and intervention. Focusing on core infant and toddler concerns including crying, sleeping, feeding, clinginess, and aggression, it presents a developmental continuum from normal to disturbed behavior regulation and examines science-based strategies for halting this trajectory. Case examples and widely used tools illustrate diverse approaches to assessment and diagnosis, emphasizing nuances of parent-infant interactions and parents‘ reactions that may fail to answer, or may even exacerbate, the child’s distress. And chapters outline counseling and therapy options for infants and parents, so that persistent problems do not become entrenched in children’s future behavior or lead to long-term family dysfunction. Among the topics covered: Approaches to diagnosing regulatory disorders in infants. Feeding disorders in infants and young children. Developmentally appropriate vs. persistent defiant and aggressive behavior. Treatment approaches for regulatory disorders. Video and video feedback in counseling and therapy. Regulatory Disorders in Infants is an essential resource for clinicians and practitioners as well as researchers and graduate students in clinical child and school psychology, pediatrics, social work, psychiatry, and family studies.  Review “This book written for neonatologists, pediatricians and growth and development clinics reviews in 11 sections frequent developmental problems in early childhood and offers guidelines for diagnosis and treatment. It contains examples of patients and discusses parent-infant interactions. An interesting chapter reviews video feedback in counseling and therapy.” (Pediatric Endocrinology Reviews (PER), Vol. 14 (4), June, 2017) From the Back Cover This innovative book discusses current findings on regulatory disorders in infants and offers practical guidelines for diagnosis and intervention. Focusing on core infant and toddler concerns including crying, sleeping, feeding, clinginess, and aggression, it presents a developmental continuum from normal to disturbed behavior regulation and examines science-based strategies for halting this trajectory. Case examples and widely used tools illustrate diverse approaches to assessment and diagnosis, emphasizing nuances of parent-infant interactions and parents’ reactions that may fail to answer, or may even exacerbate, the child’s distress. And chapters outline counseling and therapy options for infants and parents, so that persistent problems do not become entrenched in children’s future behavior or lead to long-term family dysfunction. Among the topics covered: • Approaches to diagnosing regulatory disorders in infants. • Feeding disorders in infants and young children. • Developmentally appropriate vs. persistent defiant and aggressive behavior. • Treatment approaches for regulatory disorders. • Video and video feedback in counseling and therapy. Regulatory Disorders in Infants is an essential resource for clinicians and practitioners as well as researchers and graduate students in clinical child and school psychology, pediatrics, social work, psychiatry, and family studies. About the Author Prof. Dr. med. Manfred Cierpka is a Senior Professor at the University Hospital of Heidelberg. He is a Medical Doctor of Psychiatry and Psychosomatic Medicine, a Psychoanalyst, and Family Therapist. He completed his doctorate at the University of Ulm, after which he became a Professor of Psychosomatics and Family Therapy at the University of Göttingen. From 1998-2015 he was the Medical Director of the Institute for Psychosomatic Cooperation Research and Family Therapy at the University Hospital of Heidelberg. He is the author or editor of many books including the Handbuch der Familiendiagnostik, published by Springer. He is