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More than 80% of the body stress relate to diseases
More than 80% of the body stress relate to diseases! When we are under too much pressure, the body's various systems will alert us, Prefessor Fan, a psychology prefessor at Tsinghua University, and of course, each person's physical condition is different, the reaction will be different. The digestive system is the most sensitive reaction under too much pressure. People may have […]
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Transient and transitional disturbances
Transient and transitional disturbances Transient disturbances can occur because of physiological distress in the infant—‘teething’, rise in temperature, other transient medical conditions,developmental challenges, environmental changes such as weather changes, or changes in the sleeping arrangements of the household such as the infant being moved into his own room. From Mental health articles, post Transient and […]
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Sleep problems of infant
Sleep problems of infant Sleep problems present in a number of ways. There are babies who find it difficult to settle to sleep, those who settle but wake and cannot get back to sleep alone and always require intervention, and there are babies who wake for long periods. When parents present with a sleep problem […]
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Experience of pregnancy and past obstetric history
Experience of pregnancy and past obstetric history The experience of adverse pregnancy and past obstetric history is potentially a risk factor for the ongoing mental health of most parents who have had a premature or sick infant. Often, with women who have a premature birth, there have been past terminations or miscarriages of previous pregnancies. […]
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Hospital ecology for premature infant
Hospital ecology for premature infant For many parents of a premature or very sick infant, the first real meeting with the baby is in the NICU. The baby is in a Perspex box, attached to machines that emit intermittent electronic sounds. There is no privacy. Often, parents are shocked at the size and colour […]
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prenatal trauma during pregnancy
prenatal trauma during pregnancy There are individual differences in the experience of trauma for each parent of any premature infant. A premature birth can hold different significance depending on factors in the parents’ lives and experience, and their effect on the birth experience. Some of the common characteristics of the experiences of parents of premature […]
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Behavioural risk factors for premature infant
It has been observed since 1964 (Drillien) that VLBW infants are at risk for a range of behavioural difficulties including major and minor psychiatric disorders. Even earlier, Benton (1940) described children born prematurely as restless, easily tired and nervous, which resulted in distractibility and poor concentration. However, most studies of the 1970s and 1980s only […]
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Biological risk factors for premature infants
Biological risk factors for premature infants The dramatic increase in survival of low-birthweight infants, especially the ELBW, has been accompanied by a higher incidence of neuropsychiatric disorders in this population (see Minde, 2000, for studies). Lorenz et al. (1998) have suggested from their recent study in a population of ELBW infants, that each 1 per […]
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Risk and protective factors for premature infant
Risk and protective factors It is well known that premature and very sick infants are at risk for developmental problems (Bennett, 1988). Most studies initially focused on neurological and cognitive outcomes, although some studies have also included behavioural outcomes (see Minde, 2000, for studies). More recently, studies have included emotional development and mother–infant relationship in […]
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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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