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Families under stress: perinatal social work
Health & Social Work
|February 1, 1981
Although the medical treatment of critically ill newborn babies has advanced significantly in recent years, treatment of a family's emotional trauma brought on by the birth of an ill baby is relatively new. The authors examine the ways a family must cope with a sickly infant and suggest how a perinatal social worker can assist the family.
Although the medical treatment of critically ill newborn babies has advanced significantly in recent years, treatment of a family's emotional trauma brought on by the birth of an ill baby is relatively new. The authors examine the ways a family must cope with a sickly infant and suggest how a perinatal social worker can assist the family.