THE ATYPICAL INFANT

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Prerequisites: PSY 101, grade of C, and PSY 355 or PSY356. The psychological effects of developmental delay in infants. Screening, assessment, and intervention of high-risk infants; definition of at-risk and high-risk infants, biological traumas and defects, prenatal traumas, birth and perinatal traumas, psychological crises in infancy, psychological assessment of developmental delay in newborns and infants, early intervention for high-risk infants and their families, psychological issues of parenting the high-risk infant. Offered spring only.