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Practitioners and researchers address the critical issues, as well as contemporary approaches, used to deal with the developmental social, intellectual, and coping problems of low-birthweight infants and their families. Following a comprehensive introductory overview, the remaining 17 chapters fall
List of contents
PART I. INTRODUCTION
Introduction, Irving E. Sigel
Past, Present, and Future Directions in Research on the Development of Low-Birthweight Children, Sarah L. Friedman and Marian D. Sigman
PART II. EPIDEMIOLOGICAL, MEDICAL, AND THEORETICAL CONSIDERATIONS
The Epidemiology of Low Birthweight, Joel C. Kleinman
Advances in Neonatal Intensive Care Technology and Their Possible Impact on the Development of Low-Birthweight Infants, Marie C. McCormick
The Concept of Risk: A Reevaluation, Frances Degen Horowitz
PART III. SOCIAL AND EMOTIONAL DEVELOPMENT
Very-Low-Birthweight Newborns and Parents as Early Social Partners, Carol O. Eckerman and Jerri M. Oehler
The Development and Social Competence of a Preterm Sample at Age 4: Predictors and Transactional Outcomes, Mark T. Greenberg, Heather Carmichael-Olson, and Keith Crnic
The Social and Emotional Development of Low-Birthweight Infants and Their Families Up to Age 4, Klaus Minde
Emotional and Behavioral Development of Low Birthweight Infants, Stephen L. Buka, Lewis P. Lipsitt, and Ming T. Tsuang
School Age Follow-up of the Development of Preterm Infants: Infants and Family Predictors, Diane Magyary, Patricia A. Brandt, Mary Hammond, and Kathryn Barnard
Behavior Problems and Social Competence During Early Adolescence in Children Born Preterm, Sarale E. Cohen, Arthur H. Parmelee, Leila Beckwith, and Marian D. Sigman
PART IV. INTELLECTUAL AND ACADEMIC COMPETENCE
Prematurity as Well as Intraventricular Hemorrhage Influence Developmental Outcome at 5 Years, Anita Miller Sostek
Predicting Future Cognitive, Academic, and Behavioral Outcomes for Very-Low-Birthweight Infants, Valerie E. Barsky and Linda S. Siegel
The Prediction of Cognitive Abilities at Age 8 and 12 Years of Age from Neonatal Assessments of Preterm Infants, Marian D. Sigman, Sarale E.
Cohen, Leila Beckwith, Robert Asarnow, and Arthur H. Parmelee
Further Investigations of Intellectual Status at Age 8 Years: I. Long-Term Consequences into Adulthood. II
Neonatal Predictors, Jane V. Hunt, William H. Tooley, and Bruce A. B. Cooper
PART V. INTERVENTIONS AND THEIR EFFECTS
Individualized, Family-Focused Developmental Care for the Very-Low-Birthweight Preterm Infant in the NICU, Heidelise Als
Evaluating Effects of Intervention with Parents of Preterm Infants, Leila Beckwith and Carol Rodning
Efficacy of Comprehensive Early Intervention for Low-Birthweight Premature Infants and Their Families: The Infant Health and Development Program, Ruth T. Gross, Jeanne Brooks-Gunn, and Donna Spiker
An Interactionist Perspective on Interventions with Low-Birthweight Infants, Virginia A. Rauh and John Brennan
Author Index
Subject Index
