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Training and primary prevention: Clinical experience with infants and their families as an obligatory part of the child psychiatrist's training
Author(s) -
Solyom Antal E.,
Greenman George W.
Publication year - 1980
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 - 10.1002/1097-0355(198022)1:2<76::aid-imhj2280010203>3.0.co;2-w
Subject(s) - intervention (counseling) , training (meteorology) , primary prevention , psychology , medicine , parent training , psychiatry , physics , disease , pathology , meteorology
This article reports on a clinical program that has been an obligatory part of the training of child psychiatrists since 1976. It consists of following infant and parent development through the first postnatal year. Although the families who volunteer to participate are not selected on the basis of identified problems or risks, intervention was indicated on several occasions. This training experience has been highly valued by child psychiatrists. It also performed functions of primary prevention. It is suggested that if such training programs were established at other institutions and in other clinical fields, the primary prevention of emotional disorders would significantly be promoted.