Brazelton t berry biography of william hill

In his roles as researcher, clinician, and advocate for parents, T. Berry Brazelton has been one of the formative influences on pediatrics in the United States for over fifty years. It can be argued that one of the most important advances in the study and treatment of the newborn infant was the development and publication of the Neonatal Behavioral Assessment Scale NBAS by Brazelton and his colleagues in Unlike the classic neurological scales, which were designed to identify abnormalities in newborn functioning, the NBAS examines the competencies of the newborn infant while at the same time identifying areas of concern.

It has been used in hundreds of research studies to assess the effects of a wide range of prenatal and perinatal influences on newborn behavior, including prematurity and low birthweight and prenatal substance abuse. From the time it was first published, the NBAS has been used to document cultural variation in newborn behavior across a wide range of cultures.

In recent years, it has also been successfully used as a method of helping parents understand and relate to their infants.

Today, Brazelton, raised in rural Waco, Texas, educated at Princeton and Columbia, still is considered among the world's foremost experts on.

Moreover, although many population studies have been conducted with the NBAS, it has never been standardized. Brazelton and his colleagues maintain that careful training of examiners to the 90 percent inter-rater agreement level ensures the reliability of the results across settings. Brazelton was born in Waco, Texas , on May 10, , and graduated from Princeton in Like Benjamin Spock, to whom he has been compared, Brazelton has written books for parents that have influenced the beliefs and practices of parents everywhere.

Kevin Nugent. Brazelton is a professor emeritus of clinical pediatrics at Harvard Medical School and a professor of psychiatry and human development at Brown University. Berry Brazelton Chair in Pediatrics. Established in , Touchpoints is a preventative outreach program that trains professionals to better serve families of infants and toddlers. Brazelton, T.

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