Mental health articles
OF mental health care and mentally ill
July, 2016
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 […]
Tags: disturbances
Posted in mentally ill | No Comments »
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 […]
Tags: infant
Posted in mentally ill | No Comments »
developmental assessment in infant
Infant developmental assessment A developmental assessment, for example, using the Neonatal Behavioural Assessment Scale (Brazelton & Nugent, 1995), shared with the parents at the time of taking their baby home gives important information to the clinician and the family. The assessment allows the parents to observe their baby’s unique characteristics, response to handling, and strengths, […]
Tags: infant
Posted in mental health care | No Comments »
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. […]
Posted in mentally ill | No Comments »
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 […]
Tags: infant
Posted in mentally ill | No Comments »
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 […]
Posted in mentally ill | No Comments »
Relationship between the premature infant and caregiver
Relationship between the premature infant and caregiver Many researchers of prematurity have looked at the relationship between the infant and her caregiver and the effect of prematurity on that relationship. The interaction between parent and infant, and caregiver responsivity, is a key component of the child’s final intellectual and behavioural outcome. It has been noted, […]
Tags: infant
Posted in mental health care | No Comments »
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 […]
Posted in mentally ill | No Comments »
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 […]
Tags: infant
Posted in mentally ill | No Comments »
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 […]
Posted in mentally ill | No Comments »
Mental health articles
- Stress Less: Simple Strategies to Keep Burnout at Bay
- Unmasking the Silent Predator: Understanding Depression
- generalized anxiety disorder possible causes
- acute stress disorder nursing interventions
- acute stress disorder nursing diagnosis
- primary treatment for acute stress disorder
- test for acute stress disorder
- acute stress disorder signs and symptoms
- acute stress disorder causes
- neurophysiology of anxiety disorders
Some of our content is collected from Internet, please contact us when some of them is tortious. Email: cnpsy@126.com