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Caregiver-Infant Interaction as a Focus for Therapeutic Intervention with Human Infants

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Environments as Therapy for Brain Dysfunction

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This chapter will focus upon the effects of the postnatal environment upon behavioral capacity in high risk infants. Specifically it asks: By what process do at-risk infants from favorable environments overcome their deficits? What are the significant dimensions of such environments?

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Beckwith, L. (1976). Caregiver-Infant Interaction as a Focus for Therapeutic Intervention with Human Infants. In: Walsh, R.N., Greenough, W.T. (eds) Environments as Therapy for Brain Dysfunction. Advances in Behavioral Biology. Springer, Boston, MA. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4684-3081-3_10

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