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Alternative care is foster care or adoption
Alternative care is foster care or adoption In the current social context children are not removed from parents lightly. The removal of a child into care is a difficult decision that requires thoughtful consideration of the effect of separation on the infant vis-a-vis careful assessment of the damaging physical, psychological and developmental impacts on the […]
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Therapeutic interventions for high-risk families
Therapeutic interventions for high-risk families Relationship-based therapeutic work with high-risk families can take a number of forms and may be longer term. It takes time to establish a relationship, in particular when, as mentioned previously, these families have suffered disappointment, at least, from various agencies and systems. For the infant mental health worker, the infant–parent […]
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Interventions for high–risk infants and parents
Interventions for high–risk infants and parents Once a family has been identified as having high risks, very often there are many services asked to be involved, including mental health consultants. Lieberman (1998) suggests there are three goals for the infant mental health consultant: • to identify the developmental, psychological and relationship-based factors affecting the child […]
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Effect of high-risk environments on infant mental health
Effect of high-risk environments on infant mental health Babies and infants in high-risk environments are at risk of forming disturbed attachments with their primary caregivers because of the unavailability of a consistently nurturing parent. Infants with insecure and disorganised attachments struggle to develop emotional self-regulation, as it is within a secure attachment that the neural […]
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What makes an environment high risk for an infant?
What makes an environment high risk for an infant? High-risk environments for infants are usually multifaceted, with, for example, psychological risks compounding or contributing to social risk or disadvantage. Extreme risk in one area is possible. Such environments include interacting risks in the biological, psychological and social domains, for example, an absence of parental empathy […]
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Attachment patterns and longitudinal risk
Attachment patterns and longitudinal risk In families with high levels of socioeconomic risk and disadvantage, particularly where the mothers have histories of abuse and/or neglect in their own backgrounds, there is increased risk of a disorganised attachment relationship developing. This predisposes the child to long-term emotional and behavioural problems. The parenting style of young women […]
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The quality of adolescent parenting
The quality of adolescent parenting Studies suggest that adolescent parents tend to: • initiate less verbal interaction with their children, and as a consequence their children are at risk of delayed language and cognitive development • have less knowledge than older parents about normal development and have unrealistic behavioural expectations of their children • perceive […]
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How to access to ante-natal care
How to access to ante-natal care Even when good ante-natal care is available, adolescents are less likely than older pregnant women to use it, especially in the first half of the pregnancy. Obstacles include: • the teenager’s inability to prioritise her health care • the sense of omnipotence that is an integral part of adolescence: […]
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Influences on decisions about termination
Influences on decisions about termination Decisions about whether to keep or abort the foetus and how to manage the pregnancy are complex. They are influenced by the structure of relationships within the extended family and sociocultural background of the adolescent, but also by the young woman’s psychological state of mental health. Anecdotal reports suggest that […]
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Psychosocial factors involved in teenage pregnancy
Psychosocial factors involved in teenage pregnancy In Australia, teenagers who give birth are more likely to be Australian born, Aboriginal and poor. American studies suggest that as many as 60 per cent of teenage mothers live below the poverty line. Pregnant teenagers seek or attend ante-natal care less often than older women. They often smoke […]
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