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Affiliated organizations:
Center for Parenting Studies
Community of Mindful Parents
Family Services, Bellvue, WA
Family Service of Santa Monica
The Maple Couseling Center
New Center for Psychoanalysis
THRIVE
Venice Family Clinic
Vista del Mar
For parents:
BOOKS
Bettleheim, B. (1988). A good enough parent. NY: Knopf Doubleday.
Brazelton, T. & Sparrow, J. (2006). Touchpoints: Your child's emotional and behavioral development (2nd ed). Cambridge, MA: Da Capo Press.
Brazelton, T. & Greenspan, S. (2001). The irreducible needs of children: What every child must have to grow, learn and flourish.
Chamberlain, D. (3rd edition 1998). The mind of your newborn baby. Berkeley, CA: North Atlantic Books.
de Marneffe, D. (2004). Maternal desire: On children, love and the inner life. NY: Little Brown & Co.
Fraiberg, S.H. (1959). The magic years. NY: Scribner.
Karen, R. (). Becoming attached: Psychology's effort to understand the power of first relationships and how they impact our capacity to love. NY: Oxford University Press, USA.
Lieberman, A. (1993). Emotional life of the toddler. NY: The Free Press.
Mendizza, M. & Chilton Pearce, J. (2004). Magical parent, magical child. Berkeley, CA: North Atlantic Books.
Siegel, D. & Hartzell M. (2004). Parenting from the inside out. NY: Penguin.
Stern, D. et al. (1998). The birth of a mother: How the motherhood experience changes you forever. NY: Basic Books.
Verny, T. & Weintraub, P. (2003). Pre-parenting: nurturing your child from conception. NY: Simon & Schuster.
Wallerstein, J.S., et al. (1996). The good marriage: How and why love lasts. NY: Grand Central Publishing.
Winnicott, D.W., et al. (1992). Babies and their mothers. Cambridge, MA: Da Capo Press.
For children:
Books about feelings:
C is for Feelings: An ABC of Feelings, Woodleigh Hubbard
Go Away Big Green Monster, Ed Emberly
Mean Soup, Betsy Everitt
When Sophie Gets Angry, Really Really Angry, Molly Bang
Where the Wild Things Are, Maurice Sendak
Books about separation:
Don't Go, Jane Breskin Zalben
Goodnight Moon, Margaret Wise Brown
Owl Babies, Martin Waddell
Books about growing:
The Carrot Seed, Ruth Kraus
Curious George, H.A. Rey
Farfallina and Marcel, Holly Keller
Leo the Late Bloomer, Robert Kraus
Little Gorilla, Ruth Bornstein
Runaway Bunny, Margaret Wise Brown
Books about love:
Lizzy's Do's and Dont's, Jessica Harper
Mama Do You Love Me?, Barbara M. Joosse
The Way Mothers Are, Miriam Schlien
More, More, More Said the Baby, Vera B. Williams
For professionals:
ARTICLES
- Fonagy, P., & Target, M. (2005). Bridging the transmission gap: An end to an important mystery of attachment research?Attachment and Human Development, 7(3), 333-343.
- Grienenberger, J. (2007). Group Process as a Holding Environment Facilitating the Development of the Parental Reflective Function: Commentary on Paper by Arietta SladePsychoanalytic Inquiry, 26(4).
- Grienenberger, J., Slade, A., & Kelly, K. (2005). Maternal reflective functioning, mother-infant affective communication, and infant attachment: Exploring the link between mental states and observed caregiving behavior in the intergenerational transmission of attachment. Attachment and Human Development, 7(3), 299-311.
- Reynolds, D. (2003). Mindful Parenting: a group approach to enhancing reflective capacity in parents and infants. Journal of Child Psychotherapy, 29(3), 357-374.
- Slade, A. (2004). The Move from Categories to Process: Attachment Phenomena and Clinical Evaluation. Infant Mental Health Journal, 25(4), 269-283.
- Slade, A. (2007). Reflective Parenting Programs:Theory and Development. Psychoanalytic Inquiry, 26(4).
- Slade, A. (2005). Parental reflective functioning: An introduction. Attachment and Human development, 7(3), 269-281.
- Slade, A. (2004). Slade, A. (2004). The movement from categories to process: Attachment phenomena and clinical evaluation. Infant Mental Health Journal, 25(4), 269-283. 269-281.
- Slade, A. Grienenberger, J., Bernbach, E., Levy, D., & Locker, A. (2005). Maternal reflective functioning, attachment, and the transmission gap: A preliminary study. Attachment and Human Development, 7(3), 283-298.
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