Table of Contents

Chapter 1: Key issues affecting infant and child development in Africa - Mark Tomlinson (Stellenbosch University, South Africa), Charlotte Hanlon (Addis Ababa University, Ethiopia and King’s College, UK), and Anne Petersen (Harvard University, USA); Chapter 2: Mental health policy in Africa: Gaps, needs and priorities for infants and children - Crick Lund (University of Cape Town, South Africa); Chapter 3: Applying a mixed-methods model to planning and evaluating child mental health interventions in sub-Saharan Africa - Theresa Betancourt, Sarah Meyers-Ohki, Anne Stevenson (Harvard School of Public Health, Francois-Xavier Bagnoud Center for Health and Human Rights, USA); Christina Mushashi (Partners In Health, Rwanda); Chapter 4: Culture and Attachment in Africa - Hiltrud Otto and Heidi Keller (University of Osnabrueck, Germany); Chapter 5: The Nigerian adolescent: Perspectives on physical, mental, social growth and development - Olayinka O. Omigbodun, Tolulope T. Bella-Awusah (University of Ibadan, Nigeria); Chapter 6: Infant and child development: Key considerations for a broad vision of health research - Jane Chege (World Vision International, Zambia), Jennifer Franz-Vasdeki (Independent Research Consultant, Geneva), Stefan Germann (World Vision International, Geneva and Nelson Mandela Metro University, South Africa), Mesfin Loha (World Vision East Africa Regional Office, Nairobi) and Thiago Luchesi (World Vision International, Geneva and Geneva Graduate Institute for International Development); Chapter 7: Child development and HIV/AIDS in sub-Saharan Africa: Identifying challenges and planning solutions - Lucie Cluver, Mark Orkin, Mark Boyes (Oxford University, UK); Roshan Baban, Lebo Madisha; Chapter 8: Maternal depression and child development: Existing sub-Saharan Africa evidence and an Ethiopian example - Charlotte Hanlon (Addis Ababa University, Ethiopia and King’s College, UK); Chapter 9: Childhood cognitive development and its correlates in sub-Saharan Africa: What should we be measuring in the context of urban poverty? - Penny Holding (International Centre for Behavioural Studies, Kenya); Jean Christophe Fotso, Patricia A. Elung’ata (African Population and Health Research Center, Nairobi, Kenya); Chapter 10: The birth to twenty study - Linda Richter, Sara Naicker, Shane A Norris (HSRC and MRC/Wits Developmental Pathways for Health Research Unit); Chapter 11: Malawi: Cultural conceptualisations of child development - Melissa Gladstone (University of Liverpool, UK), Mary Phiri (Sub-Saharan Africa Family Enrichment, Zambia); Chapter 12: Infant Mental Health Research in Africa: Call for Action for Research in the Next Ten Years - Mark Tomlinson (Stellenbosch University, South Africa), Barak Morgan (University of Cape Town); Chapter 13: Conclusions and the way forward - Anne Petersen (University of Michigan, USA), Peter Baguma (Uganda), Noel Malanda (Kenya).

About the Author

Dr Mark Tomlinson is Associate Professor in the Department of Psychology at the University of Stellenbosch, South Africa and is the Regional Editor (Africa) for the international journal Global: The Journal of Human Population Health and Development.

Reviews

"... a sorely needed and very valuable contribution to the existing knowledge base on child development in lower-resource settings" --Dr Debbie Kaminer, Associate Professor in the Department of Psychology at the University of Cape Town