Nurturing Children and Families: Building on the Legacy of T. Berry BrazeltonISBN: 978-1-4051-9600-0
Hardcover
416 pages
August 2010, Wiley-Blackwell
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Barry M. Lester, PhD is Professor of Psychiatry and Human
Behavior, Professor of Pediatrics and founding Director of the
Center for the Study of Children at Risk, Brown University Alpert
Medical School and Women and Infants Hospital. His research has
addressed processes of development in children at risk due to
biological and social factors. His research has been continuously
funded by the NIH for over 25 years. Dr. Lester was a member of the
Council at the NIH National Institute on Drug Abuse. He directs the
Infant and Child Mental Health Post-Baccalaureate Certificate
Program at Brown University and is past President of the
International Association for Infant Mental Health. He is the
author of several hundred peer-reviewed publications and 16 books,
including Why is My Baby Crying?
Joshua D. Sparrow, MD is Director of Special Initiatives at the Brazelton Touchpoints Center, Children’s Hospital, Boston, and Assistant Professor in Psychiatry at the Harvard Medical School. He has co-authored eight books with Dr. T. Berry Brazelton, and revised with him the second edition of Touchpoints Birth to Three: Your Child’s Emotional and Behavioral Development. His work focuses on the social determinants of development and health, and culturally informed adaptations of interventions that catalyze community healing and self-strengthening processes.