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Psychological factors that may affect infant mental health
Psychological factors that may affect infant mental health include imaginings about the unborn baby and changes to the parent’s identity. This requires a reworking of experiences and attitudes about one’s family of origin experiences. It involves intra-psychic changes as well as actual changes in the relationships with parents and other family members. One aspect of […]
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Physical and emotional changes in pregnancy
Physical and emotional changes For the newly pregnant woman, months of physical and emotional change are ahead. The three distinct stages in pregnancy are described as trimesters. The first trimester runs from conception to about 12 weeks’ gestation, before any foetal movement is felt. The second trimester is from the end of the fourth to […]
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the transition to parenthood
In the transition to parenthood, a pregnant woman must not only carry the baby through safely, but square up to the sacrifices that motherhood demands. She must ensure the acceptance of the child by the family, develop an attachment to the baby within, and prepare for the birth. She must adjust to the alteration in […]
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PROTECTIVE FACTORS AGAINST REPETITION OF ABUSE
PROTECTIVE FACTORS AGAINST REPETITION OF ABUSE For the parent, protective factors include (Egeland, Bosquet & Chung, 2002): • availability of support (social, cultural and professional) • a stable, safe social and personal situation • willingness to ask for help and use it • acceptance of responsibility for the parenting role and their past and present […]
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RISK FACTORS FOR REPETITION OF ABUSE
RISK FACTORS FOR REPETITION OF ABUSE Risk factors for repetition of abuse include (Reder, 2003; Sturge & Glasser, 2000): • the parent’s inability to give a coherent and emotionally appropriate account of their own childhood abuse, or their abusive behaviour towards their own children • significant use of dissociation, denial and minimisation as psychological defence […]
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Repetition of abuse of infant
Repetition of abuse of infant Repetition of abuse Repetition of abuse occurs in 25–50 per cent of families where children are returned to their parents after removal following abuse or neglect (Reder, 2003). Care and control conflicts are common in parents with histories of maltreatment. This can affect their capacity to parent, and to use […]
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Infant–parent interaction
Infant–parent interaction Observation of the quality of the relationship with the infant is a central part of assessing risk. The interaction reflects the parent’s current nurturing capacity and ability to respond sensitively and appropriately to the infant’s cues, as well as the infant’s ability to accept and respond to parental care. The daily routines of […]
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Parenting capacity for infant
Parenting capacity Parenting capacity can be briefly summarised as the capacity to recognise and meet the infant’s changing physical, social and emotional needs in a developmentally appropriate way, and to accept responsibility for this. It is determined by: • parental factors (and the infant–parent relationship) • infant factors (and the infant–parent relationship) • contextual sources […]
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Consequences of maltreatment for infant
Infants and children who have been abused or neglected may have developed physical, emotional and behavioural consequences of that maltreatment. These characteristics and behaviours may make caring for them more difficult. For example, traumatised infants may continue to show avoidant or disruptive behaviour even when placed in safe fostering environments. Infants with brain damage after […]
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Definitions of infant developmental risk
Risk can be defined as the probability of an event occurring, including the consideration of the losses and gains associated with it. In this context (infant development and child protection) it is not free of moral and emotional overtones. There is a high degree of uncertainty in prediction of risk in childprotection matters and inevitably […]
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