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Infant Mental Health: An Emerging Field For Children With Developmental Disabilities, Casey A. Holtz, Robert Fox
Infant Mental Health: An Emerging Field For Children With Developmental Disabilities, Casey A. Holtz, Robert Fox
Robert Fox
Behavior problems are common in toddlers and preschoolers. Richman, Stevenson, and Graham (1975) identified difficulties with eating, sleeping, toileting, temper, fears, peer relations, and activity as typical in this young population. While all young children should be expected to experience behavior problems as part of their normal development, an ongoing challenge in the field has been to determine when these “normal” developmental problems rise to the level of being considered “clinical” behavior problems (Keenan & Wakschlag, 2000). For example, when does a two-year-old child's tantrum behavior, a three-year-old's urinary accidents, and a four-year-old's defiance become clinically significant? To answer these …