Stanley Greenspan

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Stanley Greenspan (June 1, 1941 – April 27, 2010)

Behavioral Science, and Pediatrics at George Washington University Medical School. He was best known for developing the floortime approach for attempting to treat children with autistic spectrum disorders and developmental disabilities.[2]

He was Chairman of the Interdisciplinary Council on Developmental and Learning Disorders and also a Supervising Child Psychoanalyst at the Washington Psychoanalytic Institute. A graduate of Harvard College and

Yale Medical School,[2] Greenspan was the founding president of Zero to Three: National Center for Infants, Toddlers, and Families and former director of the National Institute of Mental Health's Clinical Infant Developmental Program and Mental Health Study Center.[3]

Career

The developmental model Greenspan formulated guides the care and treatment of children and infants with developmental and mental health disorders, and his work has led to the formation of regional councils and networks in most major American cities.

He has been recognized internationally as a foremost authority on mental health and disorders in infants and young children, having received awards from both the American Psychiatric Association and the American Orthopsychiatric Association. In 1981, he received the Ittleson Prize, the American Psychiatric Association's award for child psychiatry research.[citation needed] He also received the Blanche F. Ittleson award from the American Orthopsychiatric Association for outstanding contributions to American mental health. In 2003, he received the Mary S. Sigourney Award for distinguished contributions to psychoanalysis.[4] He has testified before Congress numerous times on policies affecting children and families.[citation needed]

Since 1975, he has written four monographs and 40 books including The Course of Life: Psychoanalytic Contributions to Understanding Personality Development with G. H. Pollock in 1980, with an update in 1989–90. He has also created two videos including First Feelings, which is an introduction to his orientation into social-emotional development. Both in the popular press and in peer-reviewed articles, he has written about a wide variety of subjects that affect human development.

He wrote a book The Four Thirds Solution: Solving the Childcare Crisis in America Today, which addresses how

Shared Earning/Shared Parenting Marriage
supports child development.

Greenspan recently orchestrated and edited the writing of the

Diagnostic and Statistical Manual
(DSM) currently used to diagnose psychological disorders.

Greenspan's years of studying child development at NIMH and subsequent work successfully treating children with social-emotional delays using the DIR model is described in detail in the memoir "The Boy Who Loved Windows; Opening the Heart and Mind of a Child Threatened with Autism" written by Patricia Stacey, the mother of one of his patients.

. The book was based on an article Stacey wrote featuring Greenspan called "Floor Time" published in The Atlantic Monthly in February 2003.

Greenspan lived in Bethesda, Maryland, with his wife and co-author Nancy Thorndike Greenspan. He died on April 27, 2010, of complications of a stroke.[2]

Publications

See also

References

  1. ^ Emma Brown (April 29, 2010). "Stanley I. Greenspan, 68; expert on infant development". Washington Post.
  2. ^ a b c David Corcoran, "Stanley I. Greenspan, Developer of ‘Floor Time’ Teaching, Dies at 68", Obituary, The New York Times, 2010 May 04.
  3. ^ Ricci, James. (December 31, 2007) Los Angeles Times. New Approach Aids Autistic Children's Rite of Passage.
  4. ^ "The Mary S. Sigourney Award Trust". Archived from the original on 2008-07-23. Retrieved 2008-09-19.

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