title: Use of Brazelton neonatal behavioral assessment in planning care for parents and newborns.
abstract: Clinical descriptions of newborn behaviors in the Brazelton Neonatal Behavioral Assessment Scale can be used by the nurse in planning parent-infant care. Four clusters of behaviors--interactive processes, motoric processes, organizational processes of state control, and organizational processes of physiologic response to stress--have been delineated and infants can be rated as good, poor, or average in each cluster. Nursing interventions are described for both low-risk and high-risk parent-infant pairs.
mesh_terms: D000222:Adaptation, Physiological; D000328:Adult; D001288:Attention; D001519:Behavior; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D007231:Infant, Newborn / Q000523:psychology*; D010287:Parent-Child Relations; D010347:Patient Care Planning; D011581:Psychological Tests; D012306:Risk; D014851:Wakefulness