Clinical Handbook of Transcultural Infant Mental Health

Part I . Conceptual and Background Issues.- Chapter 1. What are Cultures and a Cultural Frame of Mind in Clinical Interventions.- Chapter 2. What Parents Want for Their Children.- Chapter 3. Parent-Child Interaction and the Embodiment of Cultural Patterns: Commonalities and Differences.- Chapter 4.  Prejudice, Discrimination, and Stereotyping.- Part II. Working with Families of Various Ethnic and Social Backgrounds: Common Issues, Challenges, and Misconceptions.- Chapter 5. Working with Hispanic Families During the Perinatal Period and Early Childhood.- Chapter 6. Working with African-American Families, Infants, and Young Children.- Chapter 7.  Working with Euro-American Families in the United States During the Perinatal Period and Early Childhood.- Chapter 8. Working with Native American Families During the Perinatal Stage and Early Childhood.- Chapter 9. Working with Asian Families, Infants, and Young Children.- Chapter 10. Working with Families, Infants, and Young Children from the Middle East.- Part III. Cultural Variations in Specific Practices and Their Importance in Understanding Ourselves and Others.- Chapter 11. A Transcultural Model of Attachment and its Vicissitudes: Interventions based on Mentalization in Chile.- Chapter 12. Culture, Pregnancy, and Its Challenges.- Chapter 13. Culture, Sleep, and its Vicissitudes in the Perinatal Period and During Early Childhood.- Chapter 14. Culture and Eating in the Perinatal Period and During Early Childhood.- Chapter 15. Infant and Toddler Crying and Irritability: Cultural Meanings and Responses.- Chapter 16. Interpersonal Conflict and Discipline of the Young Child.- Chapter 17. Cultural Issues in Response to Young Children's Illnesses, Chronic Conditions, Malformations, and their Management.- 

J. Martin Maldonado-Duran, M.D., is an infant, child, and adolescent psychiatrist and family therapist. He is Associate Professor of psychiatry at the Menninger Department of Psychiatry, Baylor College and works at the complex care service in the Texas Childrens Hospital. . He is also an adjunct professor of infant psychopathology at Kansas State University and a clinical professor at the Kansas University School of Medicine. He was formerly a researcher at the Child and Family Center of the Menninger Clinic for several years. He edited the book Infant and Toddler Mental Health, published by American Psychiatric Press, and has co-edited or edited five additional books in Spanish on topics of child and infant mental health. Dr. Maldonado has written numerous papers and book chapters on topics of child development and psychopathology in several countries.

Andrés Jiménez-Gómez, is a developmental neurologist at the Department of Neurology of Baylor College of Medicine. His work is based now at the Joe DiMaggio Children's Hospital in Hollywood, Florida. He has written numerous articles and papers on multiple aspects of child neurology, pediatrician's education and global health. He is a founding member of AREPA an association of Latinamerican Pediatricians that foster the education and exchange of pediatricians in the Americas.

Maria Ximena Maldonado-Morales, MSW, MPH, is a social worker and psychotherapist at the Emotional Trauma Center at the Texas Childrens Hospital and formerly at the Women's Place Center for Reproductive Psychiatry, the Pavilion for Women, at the same hospital in Houston, Texas. She has a Master's in Social Work and a Master's in Public Health from the Brown School of Social Work at Washington University in St. Louis. She has worked with Latino immigrant families in Kansas City and St. Louis, Missouri as a social worker, as well as a middle school teacher in Houston, Texas. Ms. Maldonado-Morales's areas of