Talk:Synactive Theory of Newborn Behavioral Organization and Development

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Please comment here before deleting this article. The article is not "copied" from any copyrighted material. It is a concise summary of research, obviously related to other published articles which are properly cited. I would like to see it included in discussions of Child Development, Neonatology, Family-centered care etc.Cable3 (talk) 02:17, 3 October 2014 (UTC)
 * It reads like a research paper and not an encyclopedia article. Bacchiad (talk) 18:34, 9 January 2015 (UTC)

The Synactive Theory of Development was first described in the Infant Mental Health Journal in 1982, authored by Heidelise Als, PhD a professor in the Department of Psychiatry – Psychology at Harvard Medical School based at Boston Children’s Hospital. The theory has given rise to a systematic approach to care for prematurely born and medically at-risk infants and their parents while the infant is being cared for in a newborn intensive care unit (NICUs) and then transfers to the family home. This approach, termed NIDCAP, stands for Newborn Individualized Developmental Care and Assessment Program. NIDCAP is a comprehensive, scientific research-based model of developmentally supportive care. It provides a method to behaviorally assess newborns and support the medical environments that care for them. The non-profit charitable organization NIDCAP Federation International (NFI) came about in 2001 to assure the quality of NIDCAP education, training and certification for professionals and hospital systems. One of the major goals of the NFI is to advance the philosophy and science of such care while assuring the quality and integrity of NIDCAP principles as they are put into practice by professionals. Gloriamcanulty (talk) 21:02, 13 March 2015 (UTC)Gloria McAnulty