Review

“Patrícia Alvarenga, M. Ángeles Cerezo and Yana Kuchirko have completed an important task in showing that an attachment-informed video-feedback based intervention can greatly help mothers living in Brazil and other diverse contexts, where poverty and trauma burdens figure prominently --- just as these interventions have been shown to help mothers in North America and Europe. The goals of accepting and honoring diversity and inclusion are underscored in this important book, which has the promise of a global reach. It is more than 70 years since John Bowlby articulated what is required for the infant’s immediate and long-term mental health, i.e. for a mother (or mother-substitute) and baby to experience an enduring sense of joy. This message applies wherever a human infant is born in this world, and with this book by Alvarenga, Cerezo & Kuchirko, Bowlby’s dictum is more likely to be fully realized. Prompt sensitive responsiveness to infant distress can be encouraged and supported through simple video-feedback based interventions such as the one detailed transparently in this important book.”