Berry brazelton autobiography

BIBLIOGRAPHY

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.

For much of the earlier part of the twentieth century, it was assumed that the newborn infant was a blank slate, operating at a brain-stem level, and the care of the newborn seemed to reflect this assumption. 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