Description: Giving babies a "voice" helps parents understand their baby's unique strengths and needs. This observational tool and handbook, complete with beautiful four-color photographs by a Pulitzer prize-winning photographer, gives professionals a systematic way to help parents respond with confidence to their baby's individual needs-and build positive parent-professional relationships in the process. Flexible, easy to integrate into everyday practice, and based on more than 25 years of research, this system includesA short, easy-to-use, interactive observational tool. With the Newborn Behavioral Observations (NBO) system, professionals will have a structured set of 18 observations for infants from birth to approximately 3 months. Including parents as partners, professionals guide the observation, discuss the baby's abilities and behaviors with parents, encourage parent insights and questions, and suggest specific ways to support the child's development. (Appropriate use of the NBO tool in clinical practice requires training through the NBO training program.)A complete guide to the NBO system. Through realistic case studies, step-by-step how-to instructions, and color photos illustrating each NBO item, professionals will understand how to use the NBO effectively with a wide variety of families.Invaluable professional guidance. More than a tool, the handbook helps professionals improve their daily work with in-depth information on infant and parent development, cultural competence, premature and at-risk infants, family-centered care, and more.An essential resource from the co-author of the highly regarded Neonatal Behavioral Assessment Scale (NBAS) and his colleagues, this system is just what clinicians in hospital, clinic, or home settings need to help new mothers and fathers get to know their baby, increase their confidence and competence as parents, and support their child's growth and development.
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EAN: 9781557668837
UPC: 9781557668837
ISBN: 9781557668837
MPN: N/A
Book Title: Understanding Newborn Behavior and Early Relations
Item Height: 1.3 cm
Item Length: 25.2 cm
Item Weight: 0.64 kg
Item Width: 17.5 cm
Subject Area: Developmental Psychology
Author: J. Kevin Nugent, Constance H. Keefer, Yvette Blanchard, Lise Johnson, Susan Minear
Publication Name: Understanding Newborn Behavior & Early Relationships: The Newborn Behavioral Observations (NBO) System Handbook
Format: Paperback
Language: English
Publisher: Brookes Publishing Co
Subject: Medicine, Nursing
Publication Year: 2007
Type: Textbook
Number of Pages: 280 Pages
