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Assessment and Evaluation of the High Risk Neonate: The NICU Network Neurobehavioral Scale
Published on: August 25, 2014
[Pediatric psychiatry: evolution and developments]
J Appelboom1, S Bruyer, A Callens
1Clinique de Psychiatrie Infanto-juvénile, Hôpital Universitaire des Enfants Reine Fabiola.
Abstract:
Since 1986, the field of the child and adolescent clinics in the University Children Hospital Queen Fabiola is much developed. It is divided in five areas: the ambulatory sector, the medical psycho-psychiatry field, the day unit, the psychiatric hospitalisation and the ward. The population consists in babies (not yet born and born), children, adolescents. The clinical approach is multi and transdisciplinary including the child, his family and his life systems, caring staff included. Clinical research is centered on four axes: medical psychology, prevention, therapy and child psychiatry, somatic aspects included.
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