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SUMMARY:Challenges for parents:  understanding infant communication - Dr. 
 Joanna Hawthorne\, Brazelton Centre UK
DTSTART:20101022T120000Z
DTEND:20101022T130000Z
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DESCRIPTION:This talk addresses the issues for parents around reading thei
 r baby’s signals and cues from birth\, which is one of the important com
 ponents of parental interactive competence.  Understanding infant cues has
  been shown to boost maternal self-confidence and increase maternal sensit
 ivity.  Sensitive and contingent interactions between mothers and their in
 fants have been related to better social and cognitive competence and the 
 formation of secure attachment in infants.  The Brazelton Centre’s goal 
 is to promote healthy parent-infant relationships through an understanding
  of newborn behaviour\,  and it runs courses for both practitioners and re
 searchers in the Neonatal Behavioral Assessment Scale (NBAS) and the Newbo
 rn Behavioral Observations System (NBO).  They are based on the concept th
 at infant behaviour comprises of four organized systems of behaviour produ
 cing a profile of the newborn in the first three months of life.  These sy
 stems along with the self-regularity abilities of newborns will be describ
 ed\, as well as current projects and research studies in the UK using the 
 NBAS.\n
LOCATION:PPSIS Seminar Room (Free School Lane)
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