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Infant mental health: A new frontier
Author(s) -
Tableman Betty
Publication year - 1982
Publication title -
infant mental health journal
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.693
H-Index - 75
eISSN - 1097-0355
pISSN - 0163-9641
DOI - 10.1002/1097-0355(198222)3:2<72::aid-imhj2280030203>3.0.co;2-y
Subject(s) - frontier , mental health , infant mental health , adaptation (eye) , association (psychology) , infant mortality , psychology , infant development , developmental psychology , psychiatry , environmental health , medicine , geography , psychotherapist , population , archaeology , neuroscience
This overview is an adaptation of the keynote speech given at the First Annual Conference of the Michigan Association for Infant Mental Health, held in Ann Arbor, Michigan on March 24, 1977. A review of situations found by infant specialists and the statistical evidences of risk for infants suggests some of the components of a community‐based support system.