Understanding Newborn Behavior & Early Relationships

J. Kevin Nugent is Director of The Brazelton Institute at Children's Hospital Boston, and Lecturer at Harvard Medical School. Dr. Nugent is a developmental psychologist and Founder and Director of The Brazelton Institute at Children's Hospital Boston. He is co-author with Dr. Berry Brazelton of the Neonatal Behavioral Assessment Scale (NBAS) and has directed the NBAS training program since 1978. Dr. Nugent has conducted research on newborn behavior and parent-child relations in different cultural settings around the world and has published extensively on topics in infant and child development. In addition, he has written the manual Using the NBAS with Infants and Parents (March of Dimes Foundation, 1985) and is senior author of the series The Cultural Context of Infancy (Vols. 1 and 2; Ablex 1989, 1991). Dr. Nugent is editor of Ab Initio, the international journal for professionals working with infants and families.

This observational tool and full-color handbook gives clinicians a systematic way to help parents respond with confidence to their baby's individual needs--and build positive parent--professional relationships in the process. Flexible, easy to integrate into everyday practice, and based on more than 25 years of research, this system includes the short, easy-to-use Newborn Behavioral Observations (NBO) tool for infants from birth to 3 months, plus a handbook with complete instructions and invaluable professional guidance on infant development, cultural competence, family-centered care, and more.

The Newborn Behavioral Observations (NBO) System and the Theoretical and Clinical Principles Underlying Its Use; The Newborn Parent: Promoting the Parent-Infant Relationship through the NBO; The NBO Manual: Administration, Recording, Interpretation, Developmental Course and Implications for Caregiving; Communication for Relationship: Working with Parents and Their Infants in the Newborn Period; Incorporating the NBO into the Newborn Nursery Setting; Uses of the NBO with Preterm or Medically Fragile Infants.; The NBO in Clinical Settings: Nursing Perspectives; Cultural Considerations in the Use of the NBO.