Patients as parents: The risk to children

British Journal of Psychiatry

Volumn 170, Issue SUPPL. 32, 1997, Pages 22-27

  Oates, Margaret ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NOTTINGHAM   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

NEUROLEPTIC AGENT;

BATTERED CHILD SYNDROME; CHILD; CHILD ABUSE; CONFERENCE PAPER; DEPRESSION; HOMICIDE; HUMAN; INFANT; MANIC DEPRESSIVE PSYCHOSIS; MENTAL DISEASE; NEGLECT; PRESCHOOL CHILD; RISK ASSESSMENT; SCHIZOPHRENIA; SCHOOL CHILD; BIPOLAR DISORDER; CHILD PARENT RELATION; FEMALE; PARENT; PREGNANCY; PSYCHOLOGICAL ASPECT; PSYCHOLOGY; PUERPERAL DISORDER; REVIEW; RISK FACTOR; VIOLENCE;

BIPOLAR DISORDER; CHILD; CHILD ABUSE; CHILD OF IMPAIRED PARENTS; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; FEMALE; HOMICIDE; HUMANS; MENTAL DISORDERS; PARENT-CHILD RELATIONS; PARENTS; PREGNANCY; PUERPERAL DISORDERS; RISK ASSESSMENT; RISK FACTORS; SCHIZOPHRENIC PSYCHOLOGY; VIOLENCE;

EID: 0030896982     PISSN: 00071250     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1192/s0007125000298681     Document Type: Conference Paper

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