Surviving the Early Years : The Importance of Early Intervention with Babies at Risk / edited by Stella Acquarone.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Acquarone, Stella, editor.

Series:

United Kingdom Council for Psychotherapy series.

United Kingdom Council for Psychotherapy Series

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Psychotherapy.

Psychoanalysis.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (321 p.)

Edition:

First edition.

Place of Publication:

London : Taylor and Francis, 2018.

Summary:

"This book is about the hope underlying the ability to survive the early years. Coleridge's The Rime of the Ancient Mariner is both metaphor and framework of the despair and hopelessness that some babies and parents experience in their efforts to hold on and go through difficult circumstances. Their early experiences are not voyages "into a sunny and cheerful sea": some are years-long voyages into horror and weariness - babies born into difficult families, into countries in difficulties or into difficult circumstances.Some babies born into difficulties are pretty much alone because their mothers might be too ill to look after them, and nurses are too busy to fulfil the maternal function other than changing and feeding them. They may have been born in war zones, or in prisons, or have been in intensive neonatal premature units. Unlike mothers who recall the early years with their babies as a dance of understanding and development, other carers don't recall hearing the music at all. They slog through the early years with only hope as a compass. Like the Ancient Mariner looking for a sail on the horizon, theirs is a poignant search of the horizons for hope in any form.Different professionals, each expert in their field, address the different difficulties. They show us the connections between traumatic experiences and traumatic consequences of survival, the implications in both the families and in the professionals who, in constant contact and working together, deal with the containment and transformations of those events. This book brings us face-to-face with the wonderful capacities of the newborn and the great potential for parents (both mother and father) and child to continue growing together in a society that cares for them."--Provided by publisher.

Contents:

COVER; CONTENTS; ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS; ABOUT THE EDITOR AND CONTRIBUTORS; FOREWORD; Introduction; PART I THOUGHTS IN SEARCH OF A THINKER; CHAPTER ONE The emotional dialogue: womb to walking; CHAPTER TWO Sharing joyful friendship and imagination for meaning with infants, and their application in early intervention; CHAPTER THREE "Happy birthdeath to me": surviving death wishes in early infancy; PART II REACHING THE VULNERABLE AT RISK FROM "EXTERNAL" CIRCUMSTANCES; CHAPTER FOUR Creating a safe space: psychotherapeutic support for refugee parents and babies

CHAPTER FIVE Interventions with mothers and babies in prisons: collision of internal and external worldsCHAPTER SIX Talking to, and being with, babies: the importance of relationship in the neonatal intensive care unit; CHAPTER SEVEN "Toward the baby": first steps in supporting parents in early encounters with their infants. A reflection from Poland; CHAPTER EIGHT Adoption and fostering: facilitating healthy new attachments between infant and adoptive parent; CHAPTER NINE In a strange country without a map: special needs babies

PART III VULNERABLE GROUPS COMING FROM "INTERNAL" FRAGILE CIRCUMSTANCESCHAPTER TEN Early recognition of autism; CHAPTER ELEVEN The power of the relationship to awaken positive emotional potential; CHAPTER TWELVE Early paediatric intervention: to see or not to see, to be or not to be-with others; CHAPTER THIRTEEN Working in a National Health Service setting with toddlers at risk of autistic spectrum disorder; Conclusion; INDEX

Notes:

Includes index.

Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (ebrary, viewed July 8, 2016).

ISBN:

0-429-91958-1

0-429-90535-1

0-429-48058-X

1-78241-388-X

9780429480584

OCLC:

952248077