Transforming The Research Landscape

Nurturing Children and Families: Building on the Legacy of T. Berry Brazelton

Volumn , Issue , 2010, Pages 1-14

  Lester, Barry M ^a  

^a BROWN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

"quiet" baby, becoming the child with "easy" temperament; Brazelton scale and face to face still face paradigm industry standard tools in field; Infant parent relationship normal face to face interaction and "still face" condition; Models of development complex, multifaceted, broad systems approach; Neonatal Behavioral Assessment Scale referred to as Brazelton scale; New lens, through which we see children scientific contributions of Brazelton; Questioning behaviorism the Skinnerian, operant psychology paradigm; Scientific revolution in behavioral and developmental research and changing paradigms; Touchpoints, based on model that development is nonlinear and uneven; Transforming the research landscape

Indexed keywords

EID: 84886035403     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book    
DOI: 10.1002/9781444324617.ch1     Document Type: Chapter

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