Demystifying Infant Mental Health: What the Primary Care Provider Needs to Know

Journal of Pediatric Health Care

Volumn 30, Issue 1, 2016, Pages 38-48

  Simpson, Tanika E ^a   Condon, Eileen ^b   Price, Rosemary M ^a   Finch, Bennie Kelly ^a   Sadler, Lois S ^b,c   Ordway, Monica Roosa ^b  

^a Minding the Baby   (United States)

^b YALE UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF NURSING   (United States)

^c YALE UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

Attachment; Behavior behavioral problems; Infants; Mental health

Indexed keywords

AMBULATORY CARE; BRAIN; CARDIOVASCULAR SYSTEM; CAREGIVER; CHILD; CHILD CARE; CHILDHOOD; DOCTOR PATIENT RELATION; EXPOSURE; HUMAN; INFANT; MENTAL HEALTH; PERSONAL EXPERIENCE; PRIMARY MEDICAL CARE; SCIENTIFIC LITERATURE; TODDLER; PRIMARY HEALTH CARE;

HUMANS; INFANT; MENTAL HEALTH; PRIMARY HEALTH CARE;

EID: 84951853404     PISSN: 08915245     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.pedhc.2015.09.011     Document Type: Article

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