New Directions in Failure to Thrive: Implications for Research and Practice

Front Matter....Pages i-xiii
Front Matter....Pages 1-1
Research on the Prevention of Psychological Disorders of Infancy: A Federal Perspective....Pages 3-16
Biologic Risks in “Nonorganic” Failure to Thrive: Diagnostic and Therapeutic Implications....Pages 17-26
Failure to Thrive and Preventive Mental Health: Knowledge Gaps and Research Needs....Pages 27-44
Front Matter....Pages 45-46
Organic Concomitants of Nonorganic Failure to Thrive: Implications for Research....Pages 47-68
Failure to Thrive: An Expanded Conceptual Model....Pages 69-75
Zinc Nutrition in Children Who Fail to Thrive....Pages 77-85
Front Matter....Pages 87-88
Toward a Semispecific, Multidimensional, Threshold Model of Maltreatment....Pages 89-106
A Transactional Model of Failure to Thrive: A Look at Misclassified Cases....Pages 107-118
Early Preventive Intervention in Failure to Thrive: Methods and Preliminary Outcome....Pages 119-138
Extended Hospitalization of Failure to Thrive Infants: Patterns of Care and Developmental Outcome....Pages 139-154
Growth Data Analysis in FTT Treatment and Research....Pages 157-176
Home Observation of Parent-Child Transaction in Failure to Thrive: A Method and Preliminary Findings....Pages 177-190
Front Matter....Pages 191-192
Comprehensive Pediatric Management of Failure to Thrive: An Interdisciplinary Approach....Pages 193-210
A Strategy for Managing Non-Organic Failure to Thrive Based on a Prospective Study of Antecedents....Pages 211-222
Diagnostic Classification: The Current Challenge in Failure to Thrive Syndrome Research....Pages 225-233
A Developmental Classification of Feeding Disorders Associated with Failure to Thrive: Diagnosis and Treatment....Pages 235-258
The Etiology of Failure to Thrive: An Interactional Developmental Approach....Pages 259-277
Behavioral Approaches to the Treatment of Failure to Thrive....Pages 279-294
The Family Context of Failure to Thrive....Pages 295-310
Issues in the Treatment of Emotional and Behavioral Disturbances in Failure to Thrive....Pages 311-314
Front Matter....Pages 315-316
Primary Prevention of Failure to Thrive....Pages 317-336
Primary Prevention of Failure to Thrive: Social Policy Implications....Pages 337-357
Failure to Thrive and the Economically Depressed Community....Pages 359-366
Front Matter....Pages 367-367
Summary of Discussion at NIMH Conference: “New Directions in Failure to Thrive Research: Implications for Prevention,” October, 1984....Pages 369-375
Back Matter....Pages 377-383