Resources: Starting and developing well
See also the related pages on this website on a good start in life and interventions.
- Gerhardt S. Why Love Matters: how affection shapes a baby’s brain. Hove: Routledge, 2005.
- National Research Council. From Neurons to Neighborhoods: The Science of Early Childhood Development. Washington, DC: The National Academies Press, 2000.
- Center on Developing Child at Harvard University, 2007. A Science-based Framework for Early Childhood Policy: using evidence to improve outcome in learning, behavior, and health for vulnerable children.
- Rizzolatti G, Sinigaglia C. Mirrors and the brain: how our minds share actions and emotions. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2008.
- Parenting and mental health, FPH
- Thinking Ahead, FPH
- Advice lines and web-based support for parents
- Children Are Unbeatable Alliance
- English Child Health Promotion Programme (pregnancy and first five years of life)
- NHS service for parents
- A Chance to Change - delivering effective parenting programmes to transform lives
- Two reports from Graham Allen MP on early interventions
- Grasping the Nettle – early intervention for children, families and communities
- Foresight report. Chapter 3 on childhood and adolescence
- Bringing the wellbeing of parents into parenting interventions – The Forgotten Parent?
- Early Years Interventions to Address Health Inequalities in London - the Economic Case
- Stewart-Brown S. Mental Health Promotion: childhood holds the key? Public Health Medicine 2005;5(3) 96-1
- Stewart-Brown S. Improving parenting: the why and the how. Arch Disease Childhood 2008; 93: 102–04.
- Barlow J. Svanberg PO. Keeping the baby in mind. London: Routledge, 2009.
- MacMillan HL, Wathen CN, Barlow J, Fergusson DM, Leventhal JM and Taussig HN (2009) Interventions to prevent child maltreatment and associated impairment, The Lancet, 373 (9659), 250 – 266.
- Barlow J, McMillan AS, Kirkpatrick S et al. Health-led parenting interventions in pregnancy and early years. Department for Children, Schools and Families; 2008.
- The chance of a lifetime: preventing early conduct problems and reducing crime
- NICE guidance PH12 Promoting children’s emotional and social wellbeing in primary school
- NICE guidance PH20 Promoting young people’s social and emotional wellbeing in secondary education
- Improving mental health and wellbeing in schools in Thinking Ahead, FPH
- Implementing a public mental health framework within schools. Malloy Maura and Weist Mark, in Public Mental Health: Global Perspectives, eds Knifton L and Quinn N. OUP 2013
- Stewart-Brown, S.L. (2006) What is the evidence on school health promotion in improving health or preventing disease and, specifically what is the effectiveness of the health promoting schools approach. Copenhagen, Editors: WHO Regional Office for Europe Health Evidence Network (HEN), Health Evidence Network report
- Weare K, Nind M. Promoting Mental Health of Children and Adolescents Through Schools and School Based Interventions. Evidence Outcomes Report of the Workpackage Three of the DavaPrev Project 2011