Bonding: Building the Foundations of Secure Attachment and Independence

The mighty bond between parent and child is one of the enduring wonders of psychology. John Kennell and Marshall and Phyllis Klaus bring decades of research, insight, and clinical practice into one book that offers parents, and those who care for them during pregnancy, everything they need to know to enhance this essential relationship. This important work explores the effects of various birth practices and situationsprenatal testing, labor support, testing of newborns, breast feeding, prematurity, and adoptionon the parents' feelings and on the development of later attachment and independence."

Author: Marshall H. Klaus, John H. Kennell, Phyllis H. Klaus
Publisher: Da Capo Lifelong Books
Published: 10/01/1996
Pages: 268
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 0.91lbs
Size: 9.20h x 5.84w x 0.75d
ISBN: 9780201441987

About the Author
Marshall H. Klaus, M.D., internationally known neonatologist and researcher, is the author or coauthor of several standard works in the field, including Bonding, Care of the High Risk Newborn, and Mothering the Mother. He teaches pediatrics at the University of California, San Francisco, School of Medicine. Phyllis H. Klaus, C.S.W., M.F.C.C., teaches and practices psychotherapy at the Erikson Institute in Santa Rosa and practices in Berkeley, California. She is coauthor of Mothering the Mother, and Bonding.