This handbook provides a review of relevant topics concerning the interface between culture and mental health, with a particular focus on child-rearing practices and transcultural issues in the perinatal period, infancy, and early childhood. It discusses how to work with infants and families from diverse backgrounds and addresses the most common issues that medical and mental health experts may encounter when working with individuals from other cultures. Chapters examine the considerable range of child-rearing strategies and how families from various cultural groups approach issues such as infant sleep, feeding practices, and care during pregnancy. In addition, chapters address conditions that are seen mostly within a particular sociocultural context and are "culture bound" syndromes or states. The handbook concludes with the editors' recommendations for future research directions.Topics featured in this handbook include:

• Prejudice, discrimination, and stereotyping within the clinical field.
• Cultural responses to infant crying and irritability.
• Cultural issues in response to chronic conditions and malformations in infancy.
• The healthy immigrant effect.
• The use of folk and traditionally therapeutic remedies.

The Clinical Handbook of Transcultural Infant Mental Health is an essential resource for researchers, clinicians and related professionals, and graduate students in infancy and early child development, child and school psychology, pediatrics, social work, obstetrics, and nursing.

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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 interest include working with mothers and infants, women's perinatal mental health, and working with immigrant families.

Felipe Lecannelier, Ph.D., is the Director of the Center for Studies on Attachment and Emotional Regulation at the Universidad de Santiago, Chile He has undertaken postgraduate studies at University College London, the Anna Freud Center and the University of Minnesota. His areas of research and public health work focus on bullying, early socioemotional development, the socioemotional development of children raised in orphanages, abused children, foster care and prevention of emotional and behavioral difficulties in young children. He teaches actively in South America and Europe and has published numerous articles and several books on topics of child development, attachment, and substitute caregiving.

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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.- Part IV. Migration and Working in Mental Health with Families of Different Cultural Backgrounds.- Chapter 18. The Healthy Immigrant Effect and the Question of Acculturation.- Chapter 19. Working with Immigrants and Refugees.- Chapter 20. Culture-Bound Syndromes in the Perinatal Period and Early Childhood: Culturally Based Definitions of Disorder, Disease, and Cure.- Chapter 21. The Use of Folk Remedies and Traditional Therapeutic Strategies.- Chapter 22. Future Trends in Research and Practice.