Mental health articles
OF mental health care and mentally ill
July, 2016
ASSESSMENT, FORMULATION AND INTERVENTION
With a premature birth or a medical problem identified at birth, the baby becomes the focus of medical attention in an alien situation and the mother is often left in the labour ward as the partner accompanies the baby to the nursery. This means that the parents are very vulnerable from the beginning. Ideally, the […]
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Effects on infant and parent mental health
Effects on infant and parent mental health As noted previously, there is little evidence available on the effects of disability or delay in an infant on infant mental health. It is clear, however, that there is a process of grief that parents go through and there are possible effects on the establishment of the attachment […]
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AUTISTIC SPECTRUM DISORDERS
AUTISTIC SPECTRUM DISORDERS In 1943, Leo Kanner first described the triad of features that he named autism: extreme social isolation, severe language abnormalities, and unusual responses to the environment. He believed that it represented some kind of inbuilt deficit. Today autism is defined as a biologically determined disorder (Gillberg & Coleman, 1992), a clinical expression […]
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Factors that cause developmental delay
Factors that cause developmental delay Developmental delay is when an infant does not meet developmental milestones at an expected age, even with a wide variability of the normal range. Delay may occur in four main areas: motor, fine and gross; language and communication; adaptive/personal and social; and cognitive. Infants who are born with specific syndromes […]
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EFFECTS ON PARENTS AND SIBLINGS
EFFECTS ON PARENTS AND SIBLINGS A sense of control in the care of the infant seems to be crucial for the development of the infant–parent relationship. Parents of a sick infant are trying to develop a relationship with their infant in an artificial situation, sharing the care of their baby with strangers. It has been […]
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