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J. Kevin Nugent
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Website : SAGE Publications

BIOGRAPHY

Founder and Director, Brazelton Institute, Boston Children's Hospital; Professor Emeritus, University of Massachusetts Amherst; Lecturer, Harvard Medical School. Coauthor of The Development of Children and Adolescents and others; author of Your Baby Is Speaking to You and others. His biography of T. Berry Brazelton in SAGE Publications's Encyclopedia of Human Development (2006) has been adapted for Britannica.

Primary Contributions (1)
T. Berry Brazelton was an American pediatrician who was one of the pioneers of newborn behavioral research and who authored several influential books on parenting and infant development. Brazelton graduated from Princeton University in 1940 and then attended medical school at Columbia University’s…
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Publications (3)
The Development of Children and Adolescents An Applied Perspective
The Development of Children and Adolescents An Applied Perspective (November 2013)
By Penny Hauser-Cram, J. Kevin Nugent, Kathleen Thies, John F. Travers

The Development of Children and Adolescents, by Penny Hauser-Cram, J. Kevin Nugent, Kathleen Thies, and John F. Travers, provides an integrated view of child development. Presenting the most pertinent research for each developmental stage and linking this to practical applications in the areas of Parenting, Policy, and Practice, this balanced approach emphasizes the relationship between research and theory and applications. The rich media program, including WileyPLUS with Real Development...

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Your Baby is Speaking to You A Visual Guide to the Amazing Behaviors of Your Newborn and Growing Baby
Your Baby is Speaking to You A Visual Guide to the Amazing Behaviors of Your Newborn and Growing Baby (2011)
By Kevin Nugent

From an international expert on infant-parent communication, Your Baby Is Speaking To You is destined to become a parenting classic. Through intimate access to babies and their families, Dr. Kevin Nugent and acclaimed photographer Abelardo Morell capture the amazingly precocious communications strategies babies demonstrate from the moment they are born.

Your Baby Is Speaking to You illustrates the full range of behaviors--early smiling to startling, feeding to sleeping, listening...

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Encyclopedia of Human Development
Encyclopedia of Human Development (2006)
By Neil J. Salkind
LIST OF ENTRIES: Abecedarian Research Project, Abortion, Abstract reasoning, Accommodation, Acquired immune deficiency syndrome (AIDS), Activities of daily living (ADLs), Activity theory, Acupuncture, Adaptation, Addiction, Alfred Adler, Adolescence, Adoption, Advance directives, African Americans, After-school programs, Age discrimination, Ageism, Aggression, Aging, Aging parents, Aging well, Mary Salter Ainsworth, Alcoholics Anonymous, Alcoholism, Alleles, Allergy, Altruism, Alzheimer®s disease,...
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