Center for Early Relationship Support^®

Infant-Parent Training Institute: Faculty Publications

Arons, J. (2005). In a Black Hole: The (negative) space between longing and dread: Home Based psychotherapy with a traumatized mother and her infant son. The Psychoanalytic Study of the Child, 60, 101–127.

Arons, J., Epstein, A. & Sklan, S. (2011). The infant parent training institute: a developmental model for training infant mental health professionals. Zero to Three, September, 2011, 25-29.

Birss, S. (2007). Transition to Parenthood: Promoting the Parent-Infant Relationship. In J.K. Nugent, C.H. Keefer, S. Minear, L.C. Johnson, Y. Blanchard (Eds), Understanding Newborn Behavior and Early Relationships: The Newborn Behavioral Observation (NBO) System Handbook p 27-49. Baltimore: Brookes Publishing.

Kaufman, P. (2006), Infant Observation: a professional/personal journey. B.I.D.I.P. Newsletter, (vol. 21), no. 1.

Lyons-Ruth, K., Kaufman, M., Masters, N., & Wu, J. (1991). Issues in the identification and long-term management of Munchausen by Proxy Syndrome in a clinical infant service. Infant Mental Health Journal, 12(4), 309–320.

Lyons-Ruth, K., & Spielman, E. (2004). Disorganized infant attachment strategies and helpless-fearful profiles of parenting: Integrating attachment research with clinical intervention. Infant Mental Health Journal, 25(4), 318–335.

Paris, R., Gemborys, M., Kaufman, P. & Whitehill, D. (2007). Reaching Isolated New Mothers: Insights from a Home Visiting Program Using Paraprofessionals. Families in Society, 88(4), 616–626.

Paris, R., Bolton, R. &  Spielman, E. (2011).  Evaluating a home-based dyadic intervention: Changes in postpartum depression, maternal perceptions and mother-infant interaction. Infant Mental Health Journal, 32 (3), 319-338.

Paris, R., Spielman, E. & Bolton, R. (2009).  Mother-infant psychotherapy: Examining the therapeutic process of change. Infant Mental Health Journal, 30 (3).

Sklan, S. (2008). How to mother when your mother leaves you again and again. In M. Birch (Ed.) Finding hope in despair: Clinical studies in infant mental health, p 29-66. Washington, D.C.: Zero to Three Press.

Sklan, S. (2008). The need to fill in the hole: Discussion of Toni Vaughn Heineman's Case. In M. Birch (Ed.) Finding hope in despair: Clinical studies in infant mental health, p 247-254. Washington, D.C.: Zero to Three Press.

Spielman, E. (2000). Mentorship for early intervention supervisors: A model for enhancing reflective practice. Zero to Three, 20 (6), 30-32.

Spielman, E. (2002). Early connections: Mother-infant psychotherapy in support of perinatal mental health. Zero to Three, 22 (6), 26-30.

Spielman, E. (2011). Post-Adoption depression: Clinical windows on an emerging concept, 35-40. Zero to Three.