Overview
Analyzes broad-based research on maternal voice intervention (MVI) for preterm infants
Highlights evidence-based strategies for minimizing negative impacts of premature birth and promoting positive brain development and behavior
Discusses the effectiveness of a variety of parental interventions and developmental care programs
Offers best practices and details the usefulness of exposure to the mother’s voice for infants
Includes supplementary material: sn.pub/extras
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About this book
Topics featured in this book include:
- Early vocal contact and the language development of preterm infants.
- The maternal voice and its influence on the stability and the sleep of preterm infants.
- Parental singing as a form of early interactive contact with the preterm infant.
- Recorded or live music interventions in the bioecology of the NICU.
- The role of the music therapist to hospitalized infants.
- The Calming Cycle Theory and its implementation in preterm infants.
Early Vocal Contact and Preterm Infant Brain Development is an essential reference for researchers, clinicians and related professionals, and graduate students in developmental psychology, pediatrics, neuroscience, obstetrics and nursing.
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Keywords
- Early and ultra-early interventions in NICUs
- Early interactions with parents
- Early interventions for preterm infants
- Early parenting strategies
- Embodied voice and presence
- Family-based NICU interventions
- Fetal auditory development
- Language development of preterm infants
- Maternal voice and music therapy
- Maternal voice intervention
- Maternal voice intervention for preterm infants
- Maternal voice recognition
- NICUs
- Neonatal Intensive Care Unit
- Neurological perspectives on human voice
- Parental interventions and developmental care programs
- Premature birth
- Preterm infant development
- Preterm infants
- Sensorial modulation in NICUs
Table of contents (17 chapters)
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The Maternal Voice: A Link Between Fetal and Neonatal Period
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The NICU Acoustic Environment and the Preterm Infant’s Auditory System Development
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The Early Vocal Contact in the NICU
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Family-Centered Music Therapy Experiences in the NICU
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Early Family-Based Interventions in the NICU
Editors and Affiliations
About the editors
Pierre Kuhn, MD, Ph.D., is Professor of Pediatrics and Neonatology at the University of Strasbourg, head of the NICU at Hautepierre Hospital. He is also researcher at the Institut de Neurosciences Cellulaires et Intégratives, CNRS Strasbourg, France . Pr. Kuhn is interested in individualized developmental care implementation and research. He has conducted research in the field of sensory system development in preterm infants.
Björn Westrup, MD, Ph.D., is Senior Consultant and Lecturer at the Karolinska Institute and Director of the Newborn Individualized Developmental Care and Assessment Programme at Astrid Lindgren Children's Hospital, Karolinska University Hospital in Stockholm, Sweden. Dr. Westrup's field of research focuses on medical and physiological aspects of developmentally supportive care, family-centered care, and iron metabolism. He has been director of the Karolinska NIDCAP Training Center since its founding in 1999.
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Early Vocal Contact and Preterm Infant Brain Development
Book Subtitle: Bridging the Gaps Between Research and Practice
Editors: Manuela Filippa, Pierre Kuhn, Björn Westrup
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-65077-7
Publisher: Springer Cham
eBook Packages: Behavioral Science and Psychology, Behavioral Science and Psychology (R0)
Copyright Information: Springer International Publishing AG 2017
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-319-65075-3Published: 26 October 2017
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-319-87944-4Published: 23 June 2018
eBook ISBN: 978-3-319-65077-7Published: 17 October 2017
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XV, 343
Number of Illustrations: 8 b/w illustrations, 22 illustrations in colour
Topics: Developmental Psychology, Pediatrics, Neurosciences