Getting to Know You Lessons in Early Relational Health From Infants and Caregivers

<p><strong>This user-friendly guide uses narrative storytelling to describes the principles of early relational health with direct application to day-to-day work with infants and parents.</strong></p> <p>Practitioners on the front lines often feel great pressure to know "what to do" in a wide range of challenging situations. Drawing on both <strong>developmental science and extensive clinical experience</strong>, Dr. Gold provides evidence that the exact opposite—a stance of not-knowing—helps us find our way into another person's experience, offering the greatest opportunity for connection, growth, and healing.</p> <p>Gold presents <strong>a model of "listening in" </strong>with an intentional suspension of expectations and a willingness to be surprised. The paradigm of listening in functions as a kind of <strong>superpower to enhance teacher–student, professional–parent, and parent–infant relationships</strong>. <em>Getting to Know You </em>is important reading for a broad variety of practitioners working with infants, including early childhood educators, home visitors, pediatricians, doulas, and mental health clinicians, as well as policymakers, parents, and other caregivers. </p> <p><strong>Book Features:</strong></p> <ul> <li>Summarizes the key advances in our understanding of brain science, child development, and infant-parent mental health.</li> <li>Emphasizes lessons from real-life interactions between infants and caregivers as communicated through detailed clinical vignettes.</li> <li>Offers practitioners a model for listening that is rooted in the concept of cultural humility and the idea that even in sameness there is difference.</li></ul>