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The changing practices of an infant psychiatry program: The McGill experience
Author(s) -
Minde Klaus,
Tidmarsh L.
Publication year - 1997
Publication title -
infant mental health journal
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.693
H-Index - 75
eISSN - 1097-0355
pISSN - 0163-9641
DOI - 10.1002/(sici)1097-0355(199722)18:2<135::aid-imhj3>3.0.co;2-o
Subject(s) - infant mental health , mental health , child and adolescent psychiatry , psychology , infant development , psychiatry , medicine , developmental psychology
The present paper describes the development of a university‐based infantpsychiatry program. The paper initially highlights the organizationalstructure of the program that involves some 20 professionals, then reportson 57 infants who presented with disruptive behavior disorders and endsby describing an innovative treatment program for fathers and an attemptto help teenage mothers in caring for their infants. © 1997 Michigan Association for Infant Mental Health