The World Association for Infant Mental Health is an international interdisciplinaIy
professional society with roots in two parent organizations, the International Association for …

This special issue of the Infant Mental Health Journal presents the plenary addresses from
WAIMH's 7th World Congress in Montreal, Canada (2000). As we noted in the program …

An adolescent girl requiring admission for complications of cystic fibrosis was concurrently
experiencing suicidal ideation and engaging in self-harming behavior. Because the local …

This chapter considers how infant mental health issues can arise in edge-of-care contexts,
why these should be prioritised and how they might best be addressed. Theoretical …

Health care professionals working in infancy are optimistic about its development and its
incentives for moral connectedness. Recent research shows that such an attitude is …

This article takes a human rights perspective with a view to articulating the infant's
perspective when the infant has been subjected to abuse, neglect, or both and is reliant on …

This chapter explores infant mental health, an attuned developmental, clinical, and relational
service on behalf of an infant or young child identified as at high risk for social or emotional …

The field of infant mental health is viewed from a historical perspective, citing the early
underpinnings first described by Selma Fraiberg, and its emergence into an evidence …

Neuroscientific, biological, genetic and social science research in the last two decades is
unequivocal that the first 1000 days (the antenatal period and the first two years of life) and …

Children and young people are usually referred to specialist child and adolescent mental
health services (CAMHS) by adults because of concerns raised by other adults. Most …