Early Relational Health Resources
- A Secure Base: Parent-Child Attachment and Healthy Human Development by John Bowlby, CBE, FRCP, FRCPsych
- Building Happier Kids Stress-busting: Tools for Parents by Hansa Bhargava, MD, FAAP
- Caring for Your Adopted Child by Elaine E. Schulte, MD, MPH, FAAP and Robin L. Michaelson
- Co-parenting Through Separation and Divorce: Putting Your Children First by Jann Blackstone, PsyD and David L. Hill, MD, FAAP
- Dad to Dad: Parenting Like a Pro by David L. Hill, MD, FAAP
- High Five Discipline: Positive Parenting for Happy, Healthy, Well-Behaved Kids by Candice W. Jones, MD, FAAP
- Retro Baby: Timeless Activities to Boost Development – Without All the Gear! by Anne H. Zachry, PhD, OTR/L
- Social: Why Our Brains Are Wired to Connect by Matthew D. Lieberman PhD
- The Orchid and the Dandelion: Why Some Children Struggle and How All Can Thrive by W. Thomas Boyce, MD
- The Power of Showing Up by Daniel Siegel, MD and Tine Payne Bryson, PhD
- The Spirit Level: Why Greater Equality Makes Societies Stronger by Richard Wilkinson and Kate Pickett
- Thinking Developmentally by Andrew Garner, MD, PhD, FAAP
- Touchpoints: Birth to 3: Your Child’s Emotional and Behavioral Development by T. Berry Brazelton, MD
- Canfield CF, Miller EB, Shaw DS, Morris P, Alonso A, Mendelsohn AL. Beyond language: Impacts of shared reading on parenting stress and early parent-child relational health. Dev Psychol. 2020 Jul;56(7):1305-1315. doi: 10.1037/dev0000940. Epub 2020 Apr 30. PMID: 32352828; PMCID: PMC7319866.
- Cates CB, Weisleder A, Berkule Johnson S, et al. Enhancing parent talk, reading, and play in primary care: sustained impacts of the video interaction project. J Pediatr. 2018;199:49–56.e1
- Flouri E, Midouhas E, Joshi H, Tzavidis N. Emotional and behavioural resilience to multiple risk exposure in early life: the role of parenting. Eur Child Adolesc Psychiatry. 2015;24(7):745–755
- Frosch, C. A., Schoppe-Sullivan, S. J., & O’Banion, D. D. (2021). Parenting and child development: A relational health perspective. American Journal of Lifestyle Medicine, 15(1), 45-59.
- Garner AS, Forkey H, Szilagyi M. Translating developmental science to address childhood adversity. Acad Pediatr. 2015;15(5):493–502
- Garner AS, Shonkoff JP; Committee on Psychosocial Aspects of Child and Family Health; Committee on Early Childhood, Adoption, and Dependent Care; Section on Developmental and Behavioral Pediatrics. Early childhood adversity, toxic stress, and the role of the pediatrician: translating developmental science into lifelong health. 2012;129(1):e224–e231
- Hambrick, E. P., Brawner, T. W., Perry, B. D., Brandt, K., Hofmeister, C., & Collins, J. O. (2019). Beyond the ACE score: Examining relationships between timing of developmental adversity, relational health and developmental outcomes in children. Archives of Psychiatric Nursing, 33(3), 238-247.
- Hertzman C, Boyce T. How experience gets under the skin to create gradients in developmental health. Ann Rev Public Health. 2010;31:329–347
- Hertzman C. Putting the concept of biological embedding in historical perspective. Proc Natl Acad Sci USA. 2012;109(suppl 2):17160–17167
- Mendelsohn AL, Cates CB, Weisleder A, et al. Reading aloud, play, and socialemotional development. 2018;141(5):e20173393
- Mendelsohn AL, Huberman HS, Berkule SB, Brockmeyer CA, Morrow LM, Dreyer BP. Primary care strategies for promoting parent-child interactions and school readiness in at-risk families: the Bellevue Project for Early Language, Literacy, and Education Success. Arch Pediatr Adolesc Med. 2011;165(1):33–41
- Needlman R, Toker KH, Dreyer BP, Klass P, Mendelsohn AL. Effectiveness of a primary care intervention to support reading aloud: a multicenter evaluation. Ambul Pediatr. 2005;5(4):209–215
- Needlman RD, Dreyer BP, Klass P, Mendelsohn AL. Attendance at well-child visits after Reach Out and Read. Clin Pediatr (Phila). 2019;58(3):282–287
- Sanders MR. Triple P-Positive Parenting Program as a public health approach to strengthening parenting. J Fam Psychol. 2008;22(4):506–517
- Shonkoff JP, Boyce WT, Levitt P, Martinez F, McEwen B. Leveraging the biology of adversity and resilience to transform pediatric practice. 2021;147(2):e20193845
- Shonkoff JP. Capitalizing on advances in science to reduce the health consequences of early childhood adversity. JAMA Pediatr. 2016;170(10):1003–1007
- Shonkoff JP. Leveraging the biology of adversity to address the roots of disparities in health and development. Proc Natl Acad Sci USA. 2012;109(suppl 2):17302–17307
- Traub F, Boynton-Jarrett R. Modifiable resilience factors to childhood adversity for clinical pediatric practice. 2017;139(5):e20162569
- Weisleder A, Cates CB, Dreyer BP, et al. Promotion of positive parenting and prevention of socioemotional disparities. 2016;137(2):e20153239
- Zuckerman B, Augustyn M. Books and reading: evidence-based standard of care whose time has come. Acad Pediatr. 2011;11(1):11–17
- Zuckerman B, Khandekar A. Reach Out and Read: evidence based approach to promoting early child development. Curr Opin Pediatr. 2010;22(4):539–544
