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Evolutionary Perspectives on Infancy
This unique volume is one of the first of its kind to examine infancy through an evolutionary lens, identifying infancy as a discrete stage during...
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Mentalizing in Infancy and Early Childhood
This chapter explains the role of mentalizing in infant development, describing how the emergence of an agentive self is associated with the...
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Vagal Flexibility Moderates the Links between Observed Sensitive Caregiving in Infancy and Externalizing Behavior Problems in Middle Childhood
This study explored how patterns of physiological stress reactivity underpin individual differences in sensitivity to early rearing experiences and...
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The Paths of Intersubjectivity During Infancy
At birth, infants show a sophisticated behavioral repertoire that serves their need to share the subjective experience of others. These dispositions...
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Infancy Through the Lens of Evolutionary Developmental Science
Natural selection has operated more strongly on infancy than other stages of development. Infants are born with low-level perceptual and cognitive...
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Moving and Interacting in Infancy and Early Childhood An Embodied, Intersubjective, and Multimodal Approach to the Interpersonal World
This book introduces studies on infant and early childhood development that are in a permanent dialogue with the psychology of music, the philosophy...
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Diagnostic Classification of Mental Health and Development Disorders of Infancy and Early Childhood, DC:0-5
This chapter presents an overview of the background, rationale for and content of the Diagnostic Classification of Mental Health and Developmental...
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Infancy and Early Childhood Mental Health Assessment: Overview
As the first 5 years of life are a period of major developmental changes with quite a lot of individual variability in pace and course, a major...
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Parents’ Home-Safety Practices to Prevent Injuries During Infancy: From Sitting to Walking Independently
Unintentional injury represents a significant health threat to young children worldwide, with infancy marking a particularly vulnerable stage of...
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Disorganized attachment behaviors in infancy as predictors of brain morphology and peer rejection in late childhood
Studies show robust links between disorganized attachment in infancy and socioemotional maladjustment in childhood. Little is known, however, about...
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Parental Tobacco Smoking and Caregiving in the Perinatal and Early Infancy Periods
Tobacco use continues to be a prevalent behavior among many mothers and fathers throughout pregnancy and the postpartum period. The current review...
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Imitation from Infancy Through Early Childhood Typical and Atypical Development
This book summarizes more than four decades of research on imitation in infancy and its relation to early learning and sociocognitive development in...
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Imitation and Temperament in Infancy
Drawing on two studies, links between imitation and temperament are discussed. In short, we found some, but weak, links between temperament and...
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A Longitudinal Study in Worrisome Sexual Behavior Following Sexual Abuse in Infancy or Early Childhood: The Amsterdam Sexual Abuse Case
Worrisome sexual behavior (WSB) is often described as an outcome specific to child sexual abuse (CSA). Therefore, it is highly relevant to study WSB...
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Adrenocortical Reactivity in Infancy and Early Childhood: Allostatic Function as Flexibility, Attunement, and Coordination
We review the literature on cortisol reactivity in early life. We argue that the ambiguity of findings may pimple with the direct measure of...
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Niche Construction in Hunter-Gatherer Infancy: Growth and Health Trade-Offs Inform Social Agency
New theory and data provide insights on the dynamic environmental, biological, and social processes that comprise infancy among Congo Basin...
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Exploring Interrelatedness of Adverse Childhood Experiences in Infancy and Toddlerhood: Using Latent Class Approaches to Examine Developmental Outcomes
Researchers have documented that Adverse Childhood Experiences (ACEs), particularly in the absence of a nurturing caregiver, can negatively impact...
