WELCOME TO
THE ASSOCIATION FOR BIRTH PSYCHOLOGY
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BIRTH PSYCHOLOGY IS A DEVELOPING DISCIPLINE CONCERNED WITH THE PSYCHOLOGICAL IMPACT OF THE BIRTH EXPERIENCE AND RELATED STAGES ON THE INDIVIDUAL THROUGHOUT THEIR LIFE.
*On personality, mental health, and behavior
*As influenced by physical, emotional and cognitive development
*As affected by social and cultural factors
*For the child, from infancy through adulthood
*For the parents and other important others
*The fetal personality from conception on
*Pregnancy and pre-natal influences
*The psychology of obstetrics and childbirth
*the transition to parenthood
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RECOMMENDED READING:
The Psychology of Birth
by Leslie Feher, Ph.D.
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The ASSOCIATION FOR BIRTH PSYCHOLOGY, the first organization of its kind, was founded in 1978 to establish birth psychology as a viable specialty and to allow many diverse professionals to advance theoretical development, empirical research and clinical application, by obtaining a broad spectrum of inquiry into this dynamic area of study.
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The BIRTH PSYCHOLOGY BULLETIN is the official journal of the ASSOCIATION FOR BIRTH PSYCHOLOGY and is intended as a vehical of communication to those allied professionals who together create the specialty of Birth Psychology. It contains articles from clinical, empirical and theoretical perspectives
Birth Psychology Bulletin
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