Infant Mental Health
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Infant and preschool attachment, continuity and relationship to caregiving sensitivity: findings from a new population-based Australian cohort
Open Access paper from the JCPP – ‘Here, we report new prevalence and temporal stability data for child attachment and parental caregiving behaviour, from infancy (1 year) to preschool (4 years)’. Jennifer E. McIntosh et al.
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Effectiveness of nurse-home visiting in improving child and maternal outcomes prenatally to age two years: a randomised controlled trial (British Columbia Healthy Connections Project)
Open Access paper from the JCPP – ‘We investigated the effectiveness of Nurse-Family Partnership (NFP), a prenatal-to-age-two-years home-visiting programme, in British Columbia (BC), Canada.’ Nicole L. A. Catherine (pic) et al.
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Being and Becoming Mentally Healthy: A framework for understanding the mental health of babies and young children
Although there is increasing interest and investment in infant mental health, the term itself is not well understood. To support professionals to work together to protect and promote babies’ and young children’s mental health, we have worked with UNICEF-UK to create a new framework describing what it means to be mentally healthy in this life stage. The framework has two parts, “Being” and “Becoming” capturing both babies’ and young children’s current mental health as well as the capacities they are developing that will enable them to be mentally healthy in the future.
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