What is the Assessment of Preterm Infants Behavior (APIB)?
The Assessment of Preterm Infants’ Behavior (APIB) is a comprehensive and systematic neurobehavioral assessment of preterm and fullterm newborns developed by Heidelise Als, PhD and her colleagues. Als, H., Lester, B.M., Tronick, E., & Brazelton, T.B. (1982). Towards a systematic assessment of preterm infants’ behavioral development. In H.E. Fitzgerald, B.M. Lester, and M.W. Yogman (Eds.), Theory and Research in Behavioral Pediatrics (pp. 35-63). New York: Plenum Press. Als, H., Lester, B.M., Tronick, E., & Brazelton, T.B. (1982). Manual for the assessment of preterm infants’ behavior (APIB). In H.E. Fitzgerald, B.M. Lester, and M.W. Yogman (Eds., Theory and Research in Behavioral Pediatrics (pp. 65-132). New York: Plenum Press. The APIB, based on the Brazelton Newborn Behavioral Assessment Scale (NBAS, Brazelton, T. Berry, 1973. Philadelphia: JB Lippincott Co.), provides further refinement of the identification of infants’ self regulatory efforts and thresholds to disorganization as vi
