Synopses & Reviews
This series of three books brings together up-to-the minute theory and wide ranging research on the psychology of human reproduction for the first time and places it in a biopsychosocial context. The books are aimed at undergraduate and postgraduate students in psychology, nursing and midwifery, but are also essential reading for anyone with an interest in reproduction and human development. TITLES IN THE SERIES - Reproductive Potential and Fertility Control; Conception, Pregnancy and Birth; Current Issues in Infancy and Parenthood.
Synopsis
The timely and well researched contributions to this book bring together the latest thinking on currently topical issues in infancy and early parenthood. Each chapter considers the theoretical ideas and recent empirical developments in an area of critical concern to practitioners working with parents and babies.This series of three books brings together up-to-the minute theory and wide ranging research on the psychology of human reproduction for the first time and places it in a biopsychosocial context. The books are aimed at undergraduate and postgraduate students in psychology, nursing and midwifery, but are also essential reading for anyone with an interest in reproduction and human development.TITLES IN THE SERIES - Reproductive Potential and Fertility Control; Conception, Pregnancy and Birth; Current Issues in Infancy and Parenthood.
About the Author
Walker, Anne, BSc, PhD, Lecturer, Department of Psychology, University of Leeds, UK Niven, Catherine A, RGN BSc PhD, Professor of Nursing and Midwifery Studies and Head of Department, University of Stirling, UK
Table of Contents
1. The social construction of motherhood and fatherhood
2. Parenting and infant development following conception by reproductive technology
3. Variation in family circumstances: implications for children and their parents
4. Age and parenting
5. Post partum experiences
6. Well-being of mothers
7. Mothers, fathers and early sex roles
8. Parent-infant interaction: interpreting meaning with infant's actions
9. Attachment and the quality of care
10. From feeds to meals: the development of hunger and food intake in infants and young children
11. Infants sleep: patterns and problems
12. Pain in neonates
13. Premature babies and the Special Baby Care Unit/Neonatal Intensive Care Unit: environmental, medical and developmental considerations