Prenatal exposures: psychological and educational consequences for children

Children are being diagnosed with psychopathologies at alarming rates. Not surprisingly, their behavioral and educational outcomes are increasingly compromised. The financial costs of treating childhood disabilities are spiraling outof control, and the emotional and social toll on students, families, schools,the penal system, and society as a whole is staggering. With proper care during pregnancy, medical professionals can now help expectant mothers prevent many physical birth defects. But prevention and intervention techniques remain elusive for abnormal fetal development that manifests later in life as behavioral problems. Researchers in the field of behavioral teratology continue to search for answers - prevention and intervention techniques - that will lead to improved behavioral and education outcomes for children. Brings together the full range of prenatal events that have been shown to affect the childhood psychopathologies Is written at a technical level that can be assimilated by child psychologists, child psychologists in training, and related personnel from other disciplines Contains a glossary of medical and neurological terms to aid in making the technical matters more comprehensible for non-medically oriented readers INDICE: The importance of the prenatal central nervous system development.Overview prenatal central nervous system development. Normal birth patterns. Demographic characteristics resulting in fetal death: a model for fetal developmental risk. Prematurity and low birth weight: Defining the problem. Prematurity and low birth weight: Learning and behavior outcomes. Maternal smoking. Maternal alcohol use. Maternal use of other recreational drugs. Prenatal nutrition. Maternal infection. Maternal illness other than infection. Maternal stressduring pregnancy. Other maternal characteristics. Perinatal events: delivery complications. Environmental toxins: Air, water, and food pollutants. Temperature, photoperiod, and other geophysical factors. A model of prenatal perturbations to development. Screening for prenatal perturbation in clinical work. Appendix.

• ISBN: 978-0-387-74397-4
• Editorial: Springer
• Encuadernacion: Cartoné
• Páginas: 460
• Fecha Publicación: 01/03/2008
• Nº Volúmenes: 1
• Idioma: Inglés