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This volume initiates a series devoted to theory and research in behavioral pedi atrics. Focusing attention on the limited scientific contributions to understanding the development of behavior will, we hope, stimulate further research in this vitally important area of human knowledge. The ability of an individual to achieve his or her full potential as an adult is to a significant degree determined by critical variables in this development within a given society. Study of this aspect of human biology, therefore, may have far-reaching effects on the evolving human species. An awareness of the complexity of the behavioral patterns in infancy is of relatively recent origin and is an obvious essential starting point for this series of publications. The need to discriminate between objective observations and theo retical constructs and to design scientifically valid experiments is vital to progress in understanding early infant behavior. It is easy to misinterpret apparent responses to interventions, especially in infants at biological risk. Preterm infants and their caretakers are particularly challenging as subjects but very difficult to assess scientifically. The interactions between mother and newborn and father and newborn hold promise of substantial additional insights into the development of behavior. Thus, this volume provides interesting perspectives into the relationship of the evolving immature neurological system to complex behavior patterns in newborn infants which raise many new questions and exciting opportunities to extend our very limited knowledge about the newborn infant's psychosocial, emo tional, and cognitive development. RICHARD E. BEHRMAN, M. D.
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Book Title: Theory and Research in Behavioral Pediatrics
Book Subtitle: Volume 1
Editors: Hiram E. Fitzgerald, Barry M. Lester, Michael W. Yogman
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4899-0442-3
Publisher: Springer New York, NY
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eBook Packages: Springer Book Archive
Copyright Information: Springer Science+Business Media New York 1982
Hardcover ISBN: 978-0-306-40851-9Published: 01 September 1982
Softcover ISBN: 978-1-4899-0444-7Published: 07 June 2013
eBook ISBN: 978-1-4899-0442-3Published: 29 June 2013
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XVIII, 290
Topics: Pediatrics, Child and School Psychology, Behavioral Sciences