Transforming Infant Wellbeing

Penelope Leach is a research psychologist specalising in infant development. She is a fellow of the British Psychological Society and a Senior Research Fellow of the Institute for the Study of Children, Families and Social Issues, Birkbeck, University of London and of the Tavistock and Portman NHS Trust. She is a Visiting Professor at the Faculty of Education, University of Winchester.

Preface

Acknowledgements

Part I. Issues in infant wellbeing






Fifty years of childhood
Penelope Leach




Changing society’s attitudes to children and families
Al Aynsley-Green

Part II. Evidence



A: Early experiences and later outcomes

3. Circuits and circumstances: importance of earliest relationships and their context.



Robin Balbernie



4. Attachment theory: research and application to practice and policy



Pasco Fearon



5. Maternal representations in pregnancy: importance of the mothers' relationship with their unborn babies



Jane Barlow



6. Keeping the baby in mind: new insights into the links between maternal childhood trauma, mental health problems in pregnancy and outcomes for the child



Susan Pawlby, Dominic Plant, Carmine M. Pariante



7. Postnatal depression and the under-twos



Lynne Murray and Peter Cooper

B: Perinatal Risk Factors with demonstrable long-term ill-effects



8. Health inequalities and the importance of action on perinatal risk factors



Angela Donkin and Michael Marmot



9. Stacked odds: how social background can stifle early child potential



Chris Cuthbert



10. Antenatal and postnatal mental health problems: prevention and treatment



Alain Gregoire



11. Stress in pregnancy can change fetal and child development



Vivette Glover



12. Birth trauma



Diane S. Speier

C. Policies with potential to reduce risks and improve outcomes

13. Investing in early human development

Mary E. Young



14. What makes a difference? Supporting families in caring for children



Peter Fonagy



15. Evidence-based interventions for the first 1001 days



Kirsten Asmussen, Leon Feinstein, Haroon Chowdry, Jack Martin



16. Transforming infancy through paternity and parental leave



Margaret O’Brien



17. Towards an evidence-based population approach to supporting parenting in the early years



Matthew R. Sanders and Alina Morawska

D: Specific Programmes Demonstrating Improved Outcomes





18. Relationship-based interventions in the early years



Robin Balbernie



19. Child protection in the community: recognising and responding to signs of neglect



Ruth Gardner and Camilla Rosan



20. Mellow programmes for especially vulnerable parents and parents-to-be



Christine Puckering



21. Fathers in the perinatal period: taking their mental health into account



Jill Domoney, Jane Iles, Paul Ramchandani



22. 'SafeCare', the case for parent--infant language training



Angie S. Guinn, John R. Lutzker, Mark Chaffin



23. Video Interaction Guidance: promoting secure attachment and optimal development for children, parents and professionals



Hilary Kennedy and Angela Underdown



24. Life is 'like a box of chocolates': interventions with special-needs babies



Stella Acquarone

Part III Action

25. Themes arising



26. Norfolk Parent-Infant Mental Health Attachment Project (PRIMAP): working towards integration in attachment, mental health and social care



Verity Smith, Richard Pratt, Catherine Thomas and Danny Taggart



27. Building research findings into policy and policy into action

Timothy Loughton