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9781853023989 Academic Inspection Copy

Growth and Risk in Infancy

  • ISBN-13: 9781853023989
  • Publisher: JESSICA KINGSLEY PUBLISHERS
    Imprint: JESSICA KINGSLEY PUBLISHERS
  • By Stephen Briggs
  • Price: AUD $78.99
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  • Local release date: 16/04/1997
  • Format: Paperback 304 pages Weight: 0g
  • Categories: Psychiatry [MMH]
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This work uses case studies of ''potential risk'' children vulnerable to development problems in their home environment, and judges whether the method can be used to predict accurately infant development and risk. It isolates those factors which lead to either ''healthy'' or ''problematic'' development. The findings from the study concentrate on continuity and change in infant development, and how the model facilitated conceptualizations and comparisons of infant development. The text finishes with considered conclusions about risk in infancy and the scope for further research.
Theories of infancy; methodology; the study; Hashmat; Michael; Hester; Samantha; Roger; findings.
I like Briggs' way of conceptualising some aspects of development. His concepts of ""container shape"" and ""grip relations"" are exciting... Its subject is exciting and the method described has great potential... a glimpse of some interesting possibilities, which should be explored further [are given]. Growth and Risk in Infancy should be read by researchers of infancy who have an interest in a naturalistic and qualitative approach to the topic. It will also be of interest to those working in the psychoanalytic tradition with parents and babies.
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