Future Directions in Infant Development Research

1. Front Matter

   Pages i-x

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2. Social Development in Infancy: Looking Backward, Looking Forward

   • Ross D. Parke

   Pages 1-24

3. Risk and Protective Factors for Parents and Infants

   • Joy D. Osofsky, Alice Eberhart-Wright

   Pages 25-42

4. Long-Term Developmental Consequences of Intrauterine and Postnatal Growth Retardation in Rural Guatemala

   • Ernesto Pollitt, Kathleen Gorman, Elizabeth Metallinos-Katsaras

   Pages 43-70

5. Infant Predictors of Inhibited and Uninhibited Children

   • Jerome Kagan, Nancy Snidman

   Pages 71-88

6. The Challenge Facing Infant Research in the Next Decade

   • Frances Degen Horowitz

   Pages 89-103

7. Current and Future Directions in Infant Development Research: Brief Overview

   • Henry N. Ricciuti

   Pages 105-117

8. Back Matter

   Pages 119-121

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Future Directions in Infant Development Research bears wit- ness to the significant shifts that have occurred in infancy research in the recent past. While fundamental issues have tended to remain the same, the emphasis and ways of address- ing these issues have changed. This book is the first step toward a much richer and fuller understanding of infant development.

• Kinderheilkunde
• children
• development
• growth
• heredity
• pediatric medicine
• research

• Department of Human Development and Family Studies, Cornell University, Ithaca, USA

  George J. Suci, Steven S. Robertson

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