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Perinatal care

Regional Convention of the World Psychiatric Society

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Congress on Preventive Psychiatry
Athens, 1999 Feb. 24-28

The impact of perinatal care
on the prevention of mental diseases


Dramatic changes have occurred during the last three decades in perinatal medecine regarding mainly: 1. our understanding on the physiology of the fetus and the newborn, and 2. the use of modern technology for the early diagnosis and treatment of various diseases of the newborn or even the fetus.
 
The above have resulted in a tremendous increase in survival rates of all neonates and especially the preterm and other high risk babies. Hopefully, the great majority of survivals are physically and mentally intact. However, a number of high-risk neonates cared for in the intensive care units manifest several physical or mental problems. In addition the care of these infants in the neonatal units, the use of invasive medical interventions and the isolation techniques used in these units were accompanied by an increase in mother-infant separation. This separation poses a series of problems especially to the premature and to other high-risk infants who present a number of interactional deficits. Given that the parents of these infants pass through a true crisis themselves, it becomes clear how easily these stresses can compromise the later parent-child relationship. As the quality of this relationship largely determines the development and outcome of neonates, the modern policy of neonatology is not only to provide babies with the optimal treatment but also to provide parents with emotional support for the development of adequate parental skills. In our unit we make every effort to promote increased parental visiting and contact with the infant and to foster communication with nursery staff.

D. Anagnostakis
Neonatal Unit, 1st Department of Pediatrics
Athens University

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- Introduction
- First things first: Fight the stigma.
- Promotion of the psychosocial health of infants through primary health care.
- Teaching Bioethics in Medical School.
- Strategies for the prevention of suicide: emphasis on suicide attempters with concurrent psychiatric disorder.
- The ICD-10 training kit.
- Aniracetam treatment for lithium-produced cognitive deficits of bipolar patients.
- Brain plasticity and the course of mood disorders: Possible implications for secondary prevention.
- Inherited mental disorders can be prevented.
- Methodological issues in the study of Psychiatric Prevention.
- Co-operative management of chronic mental patients to prevent re-hospitalization.
- Components of a community-based chronic illness support system.
- Mobile units for rural areas in the service of psychiatric prevention.
- Prevention of personality disorders: realistic or utopic?.
- Prevention and treatment strategies should be multidimensional, continuous, multimodal and ecclectic.
- Early education intervention in schools and immediate environment.
- Before prevention.
- The relevance of comprehensive clinical diagnosis to prevention and health promotion.
- Preventive interventions for children of parents with a mental disorder: a multicomponent approach.
- Development and implementation of preventive measures for children with mentally ill parents.
- Nutrition and behavior changing concepts, changing concerns.
- The impact of perinatal care on the prevention of mental diseases.
- The WHO educational program on mental disorders in primary care.
- Biopsychosocial background and prevention of suicide.
- Current psychiatric prevention strategies in Japan.
- A case report regarding current psychiatric prevention strategies in Japan.

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