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Dr. Boukydis attends to and is deeply respectful of the experiences of the infant, the parent and the consultant. This book will be a valuable resource for students and practitioners from the many disciplines in the infant-family arena. --Alison Steier, Ph.D. Director, Harris Infant and Early Childhood Mental Health Training Institute, Southwest Human Development (05/03/2012) Sensitively navigates previously uncharted waters, to instruct clinicians in an essential area of practice--how to optimally engage caregivers in neurobehavioral assessment and intervention with their neonate. Highly recommended for all practitioners who are conducting neurobehavioral assessments. --Rosemarie Bigsby, ScD, OTR/L, FAOTA The Warren Alpert Medical School of Brown University (05/01/2012) Some authors break through our current understanding with applications of former work that guide professionals to provide best practice. This book does just that . . . This is a must-read for NICU and perinatal professionals. --Kathleen A. VandenBerg, Ph.D. Center Director/NIDCAP Master Trainer, West Coast NIDCAP & APIB Training Center, University of California San Francisco (05/23/2012) Very practical, but still grounded in research . . . a novel and valuable contribution to the infant mental health literature. --Angela M. Tomlin, Ph.D.

Some authors break through our current understanding with applications of former work that guide professionals to provide best practice. This book does just that . . . This is a must-read for NICU and perinatal professionals. --Kathleen A. VandenBerg, Ph.D. Center Director/NIDCAP Master Trainer, West Coast NIDCAP & APIB Training Center, University of California San Francisco (05/23/2012)

Very practical, but still grounded in research . . . a novel and valuable contribution to the infant mental health literature. --Angela M. Tomlin, Ph.D.

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Zack Boukydis, Ph.D., was a developmental/clinical psychologist whose career was devoted to research and clinical work with mothers, families, and babies. He was the editor or coeditor of three books: Support for Parents and Infants: A Manual for Parenting Organizations and Professionals (Routledge & Kegan Paul, 1986), Research on Support for Parents and Infants in the Postnatal Period (Ablex, 1987), and Infant Crying: Theoretical and Research Perspectives (with Barry M. Lester, Plenum Press, 1985), as well as the author of numerous research publications and grants. Throughout his career, Dr. Boukydis� (TM)s work focused on the influence of infant crying on parents, the neurobehavioral development of at-risk infants (including preterm and substance-exposed infants), interventions to support families in neonatal intensive care units and mothers and infants in drug treatment programs, and an ultrasound consultation program in which practitioners joined with mothers and families in watching their baby during routine ultrasound screens in obstetric clinics. He was a focusing coordinator and focusing-oriented therapist with the Focusing Institute of New York and developed a special international training program, Focusing- Oriented Parent-Infant Consultation: Bringing Focusing to Work with Parents and Infants. He was also a trainer on the NICU Network Neurobehavioral Scale (NNNS(TM); Paul H. Brookes Publishing Co., 2004) in the United States, Europe, and Africa. Dr. Boukydis was a member of the Harris Professional Development Network and was a Fulbright Fellow between the United States and Hungary. Dr. Boukydis was on the editorial review board of the Journal of Visualized Experiments and was a reviewer for Acta Paediatrica. He was on the faculty of the Department of Pediatrics, Semmelweis Medical School, and the Institute of Psychology, Eotvos Lorand University, Budapest, Hungary, and was Visiting Professor, Department of Pediatrics, University of Turku, Turku, Finland.

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