Clinical Handbook of Transcultural Infant Mental Health (PDF)

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