Educating & Advocating on Behalf of Texas Babies

The Texas Association for Infant Mental Health (TAIMH) is a non-profit affiliate of the World Association for Infant Mental Health. TAIMH has addressed infant mental health issues in Texas since 1980, and is dedicated to improving the quality of nurturing family relationships for infants, young children and their families.

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  • Experts Consider Changing the Definition of Autism

    Autism, as a psychiatric disorder, is defined by the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders (D.S.M.), published by the American Psychiatric Association (A.P.A.), which covers all mental health disorders for both children and adults. That definition matters — an official diagnosis of autism is what opens up access to services and treatment to many affected individuals, both children and adults. But The Times’s
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  • A Poverty Solution That Starts With a Hug

    PERHAPS the most widespread peril children face isn’t guns, swimming pools or speeding cars. Rather, scientists are suggesting that it may be “toxic stress” early in life, or even before birth. This month, the American Academy of Pediatrics is issuing a landmark warning that this toxic stress can harm children for life. I’m as skeptical as anyone of headlines from new medical studies (Coffee
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  • Hogg Foundation funds Grant to Texas Association for Infant Mental Health

    The Hogg Foundation for Mental Health and St. Luke’s Episcopal Health Charities together are funding four children’s mental health training programs for adults who work with children and youth in the Houston area but aren’t mental health professionals. The Ima Hogg Community Education Grants will fund training for people who work with hundreds of children and youth of all ages, including those who live
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  • Replace screen time for children under 2 with activities that spark imagination

    While playing with your child is beneficial, you cannot do this every moment of the day. Instead of turning on a TV program or video so you can make dinner or take a shower, let your baby or young child play independently. Your child benefits from playing alone for short periods of time. He learns to problem solve, think creatively and use his imagination.
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  • Less Play Time = More Troubled Kids, Experts Say

    From hide-and-seek to tearing around the neighborhood with friends, playing is one of the hallmarks of childhood. But in this era of hyper-vigilant parenting, researchers find that children in the United States have far less time to play than kids of 50 years ago, a trend that may have serious consequences for their development and mental health. “Into the 1950s, children were free to
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  • Are Violent Video Games Altering Your Child’s Brain?

    A new study has found that violent video games can alter the brains of young men after a mere week of playing. Researchers from the Indiana University School of Medicine used functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI) to observe how playing video games might affect the brain. The results indicated that boys who played violent video games experienced changes in regions associated with cognitive function
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  • U.S. Poverty Rate Reaches 15.1 Percent

    Nearly one in six Americans was living in poverty last year, the Census Bureau reported Tuesday, a development that is ensnaring growing numbers of children and offering vivid proof of the recession’s devastating impact. The report portrays a nation where many people are slipping backward in the wake of a downturn that left 14 million people out of work and pushed unemployment rates to levels
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