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[Prematurity and infant-parent attachment disturbances. Assessment and intervention]
O Battisti1, A Adant-François, J M Bertrand
1Centres de médecine et chirurgie néonatales et de suivi postnéonatal, clinique Saint-Vincent-de-Paul, Rocourt, Liège, Belgique.
Abstract:
Premature birth is a factor of impaired infant-parent attachment. In addition it is frequently associated with other factors of impaired attachment related either to the infant (mainly the various pathologies of the premature infants and the hospitalization) and/or to the parents, specially the mother. The main characteristics of the normal process of infant-parent interaction are described as a basis for the early recognition and assessment of impaired interaction and preventive intervention.