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Enhancing Attachment and Reflective Parenting in Clinical Practice: A Minding the Baby Approach is a unique, richly informed, and urgently needed book. The main author of this book, Dr. Arietta Slade, is internationally known for her many contributions to clinical psychology and especially attachment and reflective functioning in parenting and child development. She is a model of clinical psychology’s earlier generations of psychoanalytically informed, “scholar, researcher, clinicians.” She is also a gifted and generous teacher, with a unique capacity to convey complex scientific material in a clear and vivid manner, and able to express in word and tone the work of experienced, skilled, psychodynamic clinicians. This book emerged from Dr. Slade’s work of over 20 years as cofounder and codirector (with Lois Sadler, PhD, a pediatric nurse practitioner) of the Minding the Baby program at the Yale Child Study Center and School of Nursing. In this rigorously studied and internationally replicated program, Dr. Slade and her colleagues Lois Sadler, Tanika Eaves, and Denise L. Webb critically examined this reflective functioning home visiting program for high-risk mothers, infants, and their families. This volume is the result of their efforts to expand this evidenced-based intervention, conceptualizing, and developing a clinical approach rather than intervention per se. This is not a technical handbook, but ultimately a presentation of principles and practices to be studied, engaged, and applied mindfully and flexibly in an array of clinical encounters with the vulnerable parents and children. As articulated in this work, a reflective clinical approach is not an explicit skill but an attitude, an open, respectful, and genuinely curious way of approaching and coming to know another human being. Reflective functioning indicates an awareness and appreciation of internal experience (mental states) in oneself and others. It reflects an understanding that another person can have