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Reconceiving the field: Infant mental health, intersectionality, and reproductive justice

Maria Seymour St John1

  • 1Infant-Parent Program, University of California, San Francisco, Califonia and Private Practice, Oakland, California.

Infant Mental Health Journal
|July 20, 2019
PubMed

Insights

Safeguarding infant mental health requires addressing reproductive justice issues. Achieving reproductive justice is essential for protecting infants' universal developmental needs and rights.

Area of Science:

  • Infant mental health
  • Developmental science
  • Psychology
  • Psychiatry
  • Maternal/child health
  • Early intervention
  • Early care and education
  • Child welfare

Background:

  • The field of infant mental health integrates developmental science, psychology, and psychiatry.
  • It encompasses diverse practice areas like pediatrics, maternal/child health, and child welfare.
  • The World Association of Infant Mental Health (WAIMH) published a position paper on infant rights in 2014, amended in 2016.

Purpose of the Study:

  • To link policy issues from the WAIMH position paper with reproductive justice.
  • To extend the call to action for infant rights.
  • To foster alliances among interconnected social movements.

Main Methods:

  • Policy analysis
  • Literature review
  • Interdisciplinary discourse integration
  • Connecting infant rights with reproductive justice

Main Results:

  • Infant mental health is intrinsically linked to reproductive justice.
  • Economic injustice, race-based health disparities, and gender inequities impact infant mental health.
  • Addressing these systemic issues is crucial for safeguarding infant well-being.

Conclusions:

  • Protecting infant mental health necessitates achieving reproductive justice.
  • Interconnected social movements can collaborate to advance infant rights and reproductive justice.
  • A holistic approach integrating social justice is vital for infant mental health outcomes.

Keywords:
IntersektionalitätNiños y Familias Basados en la Diversidad, (© Fundación Irving Harris)Principios para Trabajar con InfantesPréceptes de travail avec les nourrissons, les enfants et les familles basés sur la diversité (© Irving Harris Foundation)diversity-informed tenets for work with infants, children, & familiesimplicit biasimplizite Verzerrungintersectionalityintersectionnalitéjustice reproductivejusticia reproductivaprejuicios implícitospréjugés implicitesreproductive justicereproduktive Gerechtigkeitvon Diversität geprägte Grundsätze für die Arbeit mit Säuglingen, Kindern und Familien (© Irving Harris Foundation)التقاطعالعدالة الإنجابيةمبادئ التنوع المستنيرة للعمل مع الرضع والأطفال والأسر (© مؤسسة إيرفينغ هاريس)؛ التحيز الضمني乳幼児・子ども・家族のための多様な情報に基づいた信条 (©アーヴィング・ハリス財団)交叉性交差性潜在的偏り生殖の公平性生殖公義與嬰兒丶兒童和家庭一起工作的多元化知情原則 (©Irving Harris Foundation)隱性偏見

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