 | Cultivating Mindfulness to Raise Children Who Thrive: Why Human Connection from Before Birth Matters Subjects: Behavioral Sciences; Health and Social Care; Medicine Dentistry Nursing & Allied Health; Midwifery; Midwifery; Mental Health; Social Work and Social Policy; Psychotherapy; Child and Family Social Work; Psychoanalysis; Marriage Family & Sex Therapy; Cultivating Mindfulness to Raise Children Who Thrive introduces an expanded view of human development and health, which begins before conception and moves through pregnancy, early childhood and adulthood. This book is a call for all prenatal and perinatal professionals and policy makers to appreciate indigenous ways of knowing, being and doing and integrate them with scientific evidence in the care of expectant parents and their babies. It explains how this could also tackle pressing social issues facing the modern world and favour social innovations through a revaluation of preconception, pregnancy, birth and childcare practices. Sansone presents the reader with scientific discoveries of epigenetics, interpersonal neuroscience, quantum physics, attachment, anthropology, prenatal and perinatal psychology and mindfulness, which interestingly resonate with the intuitions of primal wisdom. The book will be of interest to clinicians, policy makers, researchers, parents, and those interested in the prenatal and perinatal roots of human development and well-being. Antonella Sansone is a mother, clinical psychologist, researcher, mindfulness teacher/facilitator and author. Her work with expectant and new parents and infants in UK and Italy, empirical studies of African indigenous cultures and inspiring motherhood have led to the writing of this book and the design of a PhD drawing on it. She has been granted the International Excellence Award from Central Queensland University in Australia. |
