Mental health consultation in infant day care
A new frontier of prevention
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 11277522 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Antal E Solyom (Youth & Family Services, corresponding author) |
| Year | 1981 |
| Volume | 2 |
| Issue | 3 |
| Pages | 188-197 |
| Publication date | 1981-01-01 |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Infant Mental Health Journal (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0163-9641 • E-ISSN: 1097-0355 |
| Publisher | Wiley (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.1002/1097-0355(198123)2:3<188::aid-imhj2280020307>3.0.co;2-t |
| OpenAlex | W2086210390 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 1 |
| References cited | 12 |
This paper deals with the mental health aspects of infant day care emphasizing that mental health input into the design, implementation and ongoing supervision/evaluation of the majority of day care programs is minimal at the present time. The author proposes the following three criteria by which the adequacy of mental health input in a day care program could be judged: 1) ongoing mental health consultation to the caregiver staff on a weekly basis and by the same clinician(s), 2) assignment of primary caregivers to the infants, 3) periodic naturalistic observations of the infants to be recorded and discussed by the caregivers. The author postulates that consultation to the caregiver staff of infant day care programs represents the opportunity to establish a new frontier of prevention. Therefore, the mental health profession should consider it a goal that every infant day care setting would have a mental health clinician as a consultant. The methods, preventive functions and manpower aspects of such consultation work is discussed.
Day care · Family medicine · Frontier · Health care · Infant mental health · Mental health · Mental health care · Psychiatry · Attachment and Relationship Dynamics · Child and Adolescent Psychosocial and Emotional Development · Infant Health and Development · Medicine · Nursing · Psychology
| Citations per year | 0.06 |
|---|---|
| Citation span | 2010 - 2010 (1) |
| Highly cited | No |