Specialist care helps develop relationship between mothers with severe mental illness and their newborn children

Chris Engel 6/27/138:42 PM

"For mothers who are suffering from severe mental illness, interactions with babies significantly improve following specialist video-feedback and treatment on an inpatient Mother and Baby Unit (MBU), according to a new study led by King's College London's Institute of Psychiatry (IoP)....

"The formation of the first relationship between a mother and baby is key in the development of the child's attachment relationships. This study shows the importance of providing specialist support for new mothers when they are suffering from severe mental illness (schizophrenia, major depressive disorders with or without psychosis, bipolar illness), necessitating in-patient admission...."

http://medicalxpress.com/news/2013-06-specialist-relationship-mothers-severe-mental.html

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