Part 1. Infant and Early Childhood Development -- Overview -- Chapter 1. Social-Emotional Development During Infancy and Early Childhood -- Chapter 2. Perinatal Indicators of Social-Emotional Development During Infancy and Early Childhood -- Chapter 3. Temperament in Infants and Toddlers -- Chapter 4. Cognitive Development During Infancy and Early Childhood -- Chapter 5. Toddlerhood, Development, and Mental Health -- Chapter 6. Sex Differences and Vulnerabilities During Infancy and Early Childhood Development -- Part 2. Neurobiological Influences During Infancy and Early Childhood -- Overview -- Chapter 7. Genes and Epigenetics from Prenatal to Preschool -- Chapter 8. Neuroendocrinological and Stress Regulation During Infancy and Early Childhood -- Chapter 9. Parent-Infant Biobehavioral Synchrony -- Chapter 10. Intersubjectivity and Interception of the Body During Infancy -- Part 3. Parenting and Caregiving of Infants and Toddlers -- Overview -- Chapter 11. Parent-Infant Attachment Relationships -- Chapter 12. Parent-Infant Activation Relationships -- Chapter 13. Mother-Infant Interaction -- Chapter 14. Father-Infant Interaction -- Chapter 15. Co-Parenting of Infants and Toddlers -- Chapter 16. Adolescent Mothers of Infants and Toddlers -- Chapter 17. The Effects of Trauma on the Parent-Infant Relationship -- Chapter 18. Parents with Substance Use Disorders -- Chapter 19. Same-Sex Parenting of Infants and Toddlers -- Chapter 20. Reflective Functioning, Mentalization, and Infant Development.

This book examines basic knowledge in the field of infant and early childhood mental health. It focuses on cognitive, social, and emotional development of infants and toddlers and examines different aspects of neurobiological development, including genes and epigenetics as well as biobehavioral synchrony. In addition, the book addresses parenting and caregiving issues, including attachment, parent-infant relationships, and high-risk factors (e.g., the effects of trauma on the infant-caregiver relationship, adolescent parenting, and parents with substance abuse disorders). Key areas of coverage include: Social-emotional and cognitive development during infancy and early childhood. Temperament in infants and toddlers. Neurobiological influences from infancy through early childhood. Parenting and caregiving of infants and toddlers. Reflective functioning, mentalization, and infant development. The WAIMH Handbook of Infant and Early Childhood Mental Health, Volume One, is a must-have reference for researchers, professors, and graduate students as well as clinicians and all related therapists and professionals in infancy and early child development, developmental psychology, pediatrics, child and adolescent psychiatry, clinical social work, public health and all related disciplines.