Queensland Centre for Perinatal and Infant Mental Health: Books

Presenting both a theoretical foundation and proven strategies for helping caregivers become more attuned and responsive to their young children's emotional needs (ages 0-5)

What is mental health in infancy and early childhood? Why is it important? Clinical Skills in Infant Mental Health: The first three years provides an evidence-based and practical approach to assessment of young children and their families across diverse settings.

This book seeks to address the reasons why the father or the potential father could suffer from a mental disorder or illness during the perinatal period, his reactions, and what can be done to help him.

The volume showcases evidence-based approaches to assessment and intervention and describes applications in mental health, primary care, child care, and child welfare settings.

The book examines the major issues in perinatal clinical psychology through a biopsychosocial approach.

Identifying Perinatal Depression and Anxiety brings together the very latest research and clinical practice on this topic from around the world.

Infant and Early Childhood Mental Health: Core Concepts and Clinical Practice provides an overview of the field from both theoretical and clinical viewpoints.

Builds on the expanding evidence pointing to the crucial importance of parents in facilitating their baby's development, and brings together expert contributors to examine a range of innovative psychological and psychotherapeutic interventions.

This book is based on the skills of attentive listening, it is designed for use by health professionals and support workers concerned with maternal mental health and the mental health of the family.

Bringing together contributions from distinguished psychoanalysts and child observational researchers, this book elucidates the nuances of mothering, the child's tie to the mother, the mysteries of secure attachment, and the hazards of insecure attachment.

This volume offers an overview of the latest research on perinatal adaptation among women who have faced trauma, loss and/or adversity.

An accessible handbook that is intended to support midwives, health visitors, community workers and frontline healthcare providers in their detection and assessment of postnatal depression and maternal mental health.

This book presents an interdisciplinary discussion between researchers and clinicians about trauma in the relationship between infants and their parents.

Relationships in Development examines the practical implications for dynamic psychotherapy with both adults and children, especially following trauma.

This book examines infant and early childhood mental health and the importance of early emotional and social development for later developmental trajectories.