Mental Disorder Associated with Child-bearing

The Child Bearing Years

Maternal mental health and risk of child protection involvement: mental health diagnoses associated with increased risk.

BACKGROUND Previous research shows that maternal mental illness is an important risk factor for child maltreatment. This study aims to quantify the relationship between maternal mental health and risk of child maltreatment according to the different types of mental health diagnoses. METHODS The study used a retrospective cohort of children born in Western Australia between 1990 and 2005, with...

Psychiatric Aspects of Child-Bearing *

In recent years there has been an increasing emphasis on the truism "one must treat the whole individual." It is generally admitted that the limitation of the physician's consideration to the disease process alone, disregarding the concomitant personality involvement, does not comprise satisfactory and comprehensive care. Various internists have stressed the-significance of "emotional factors" ...

Mental Health and Mental Disorder

Mental Health and Mental Disorder. Edited by Arnold M. Rose. Routledge and Kegan Paul. 40s. The emergence of group methods in the treatment of mental illness in this country is still regarded with some suspicion by many workers in the mental health field. There is a tendency to consider the treatment of numbers of patients at the same time as a second best, though most people agree that the sho...

The misunderstood child: the child with a nonverbal learning disorder.

ISSUES AND PURPOSE To introduce nurses to the characteristics of nonverbal learning disorders (NLD) and their psychosocial trajectory in children. Despite the prevalence of learning disorders in children, few nursing professionals are familiar with NLD and their manifestations. CONCLUSIONS The child with NLD faces unique challenges in the social, academic, visual-spatial, motoric, and emotion...