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Why Love Matters: How Affection Shapes a Baby's Brain

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Why Love Matters: How Affection Shapes a Baby's Brain

Why Love Matters: How Affection Shapes a Baby's Brain

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Why Love Matters explains why loving relationships are essential to brain development in the early years, and how these early interactions can have lasting consequences for future emotional and physical health. This second edition follows on from the success of the first, updating the scientific research, covering recent findings in genetics and the mind/body connection, and including a new chapter highlighting our growing understanding of the part also played by pregnancy in shaping a baby's future emotional and physical well-being. Sue Gerhardt focuses in particular on the wide-ranging effects of early stress on a baby or toddler's developing nervous system. When things go wrong with relationships in early life, the dependent child has to adapt; what we now know is that his or her brain adapts too. The brain's emotion and immune systems are particularly affected by early stress and can become less effective. This makes the child more vulnerable to a range of later difficulties such as depression, anti-social behaviour, addictions or anorexia, as well as physical illness. Why Love Matters is an accessible, lively, account of the latest findings in neuroscience, developmental psychology and neurobiology - research which matters to us all. It is an invaluable and hugely popular guide for parents and professionals alike.
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Type Book
ISBN13 9781583918173
ISBN10 1583918175
Number Of Pages 256
Item Weight 300 g
Product Dimensions 128 x 22 x 194 mm
Publisher / Reseller Routledge
Format paperback
Edition 1
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Why Love Matters is hugely important. It should be mandatory reading for all parents, teachers and politicians. - The Guardian

Sue Gerhardt's choice of title reflects the loving attention to detail that is the essence of this book... excellently researched and well-written book which deserves to be widely read by practitioners, researchers and parents. - Psychology and Psychotherapy: Theory, Research and Practice

Sue Gerhardt has written a vitally important book - a must-read for every parent, teacher, physician and politician. - Daniel Goleman, author of Emotional Intelligence

I would like to add to that positive view and suggest that this book be on every reading list you offer to new parents, politicians, clients, colleagues, family and friends. - Jeannie Wright, British Journal of Guidance and Counselling

Gerhardt's book offers perhaps one of the most concise arguments for why love and affection in early life truly do matter. Written with clear and direct language, this text can serve as a general resource for mental health professionals and parents alike. - Rachel Altamirano, Clinical Social Work Journal

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