1st Edition

Early Developmental Hazards Predictors And Precautions

Edited By Frances Degen Horowitz Copyright 1978
    132 Pages
    by Routledge

    133 Pages
    by Routledge

    This book examines the importance of prenatal, birth, and postnatal factors in determining the extent of "risk" that may be predicted for an infant in the first year of life and in early childhood. It highlights the multiplicity of factors that contribute to "survival" in the developmental process.

    Foreword -- Preface -- The Human Infant and the Processes of Development -- Perinatal Indicators and Psychophysiological Precursors of Crib Death -- Controlling Food Preferences in Children -- The Critical Period Hypothesis Revisited -- Caretaking or Reproductive Casualty? -- Epilogue: Safeguarding the Developmental Journey