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The Amazing Infant

Tiffany Field, Ph.D

Director, Touch Research Institutes

Hardcover  ISBN 1405153911- 2006 Blackwell Publishers

Tiffany Field, world renowned infant development scholar, writes an engaging and comprehensive book that collects and reviews the latest findings in the field, exploring cutting edge research and contemporary theories about infant development. An engaging and accessible book that integrates research, theory, and real life experiences and practices to provide a closer look at how infancy research is conducted. Features illustrative photos and data graphs covering research from recent years. Draws on recent advances in neuroscience to examine the progress made in the areas of prenatal and cognitive development.

Contents

  • How we conduct infancy research.
  • Being a fetus (Prenatal Growth and Development.
  • Coming into the world (The Perinatal Period).
  • Being in tune with the world (The Early Senses).
  • Body-Talk with Parents and Others (Social Development).
  • Being Emotional and Temperamental (Emotional and Personality Development).
  • Moving Around in the World and Making Objects Do Things and Things Happen (Motor and Cognitive Development).
  • Finally Using Words (Language Development).
  • Taking Turns with Peers (More Social Development).

 

Massage Therapy Research

Tiffany Field, Ph.D

Director, Touch Research Institutes

Softcover - 173 pages  -
 ISBN 9780443102011 - 2006 Elsevier Health Sciences

This book examines the practical applications of important massage therapy research findings. Each chapter of this comprehensive resource provides a clear and authoritative review of what is reliably known about the effects of touch for a variety of clinical conditions such as depression, pain management, movement problems, and functioning of the immune system. Coverage also includes the benefits of massage to specific populations such as pregnant women, neonates, infants, and adolescents. This book is suitable for massage therapists (including Shiatsu practitioners), aromatherapists, chiropractors, osteopaths, physical therapists, and nurses.

Contents

  • 1.Massage Therapy Research Methods
  • 2.Reducing Prematurity
  • 3.Enhancing Growth and Development
  • 4.Increasing Attentiveness
  • 5.Decreasing Depression and Aggression
  • 6.Improving Neuromuscular Function
  • 7.Movement Studies
  • 8.Pain Reduction
  • 9.Enhancing Immune Function
  • Appendix I: Sleep States and Brazelton Neonatal Behavior Assessment Scale
  • Appendix II: Massage Therapy Abstracts

Touch

Tiffany Field, Ph.D

Director, Touch Research Institutes

Hardcover - 173 pages  -
 ISBN 0-262-06216-X - 2001  The MIT Press

The first sensory input in life comes from the sense of touch while a baby is still in the womb, and touch continues to be the primary means of learning about the world throughout infancy, well into childhood. Touch is critical for children's growth, development, and health, as well as for adults' physical and mental well-being. Yet the American society is dangerously touch-deprived.

Contents

  • Touch Hunger
  • Touch as Communication
  • Touch in Development
  • Touch Deprivation
  • Touch Messages to the Brain
  • Touch Therapies
  • Infant Massage
  • Massage Therapy for Children, Adolescents, and Adults

Touch Therapy

Tiffany Field, Ph.D.

Director, Touch Research Institutes

Paperback · 272 Pages · 14 Illustrations · ISBN 0443057915
Churchill Livingstone · Harcourt Brace-2000

Touch Therapy focuses on recent research on touch therapy in promoting wellness and healing. Research is reviewed on the effects of massage therapy on growth and development, stress reduction, pain relief, immune function and auto-immune disorders.

Contents

  • Introduction.
  • Enhancing growth.
  • Pain reduction during painful procedures and chronic pain syndromes.
  • Enhancing attentiveness.
  • Alleviating depression and anxiety.
  • Auto-immune disorders.
  • Immune disorders.
  • Summary.
  • Further reading.
  • Appendices.

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