Parenthood and mental health: a bridge between infant and adult psychiatry

This book focuses on pregnancy and the first year of life, providing a thorough account of the points of encounter between adult and infant psychiatry. In a fresh and comprehensive way, this book summarises knowledge about parenting from gestation to the first year of life, including a critical analysis of parenting, what it means to be a ‘good enough parent’, and its relationship to infant, parent and family outcomes. In addition to the psychiatric dimension, the book emphasises the biological aspects of parenting, parental psychopathology and normal and abnormal infant development. Written by authors from a wide variety of countries and cultures, the book looks at specific challenges that the 21st century brings to the universal, developmental task known as ‘parenting’. In times of political turbulence, terrorist atrocities, natural disasters and climate change, it is parents and their infants who often suffer most, andthis suffering can be transmitted to the next generation.Sam Tyano is Professor of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry at the University of Tel Aviv, Israel. He is also visiting Professor at Lille University, France.Author of more than 200 Scientific articles in international scientific journals, and editor of 3 textbooks on psychiatry, child psychiatry and ADHD. His main scientific interests are suicidal adolescents, ADHD, infant psychiatry, personality disorders and PTSD. Miri Keren is President Elect of the World Association of Infant Mental Health Sept 09 April 2012 John Cox is past President of the Royal College of Psychiatrists and past President of the Marcé Society. He was awarded the Marcé Medal in recognition of his distinguished contribution to the field of perinatal psychiatry.

• ISBN: 978-0-470-74722-3
• Editorial: John Wiley & Sons
• Encuadernacion: Cartoné
• Páginas: 480
• Fecha Publicación: 16/04/2010
• Nº Volúmenes: 1
• Idioma: Inglés