Mental Health of Parents and Infant Health and Development in Resource-Constrained Settings: Evidence Gaps and Implications for Facilitating 'Good-Enough Parenting' in the Twenty-First-Century World

Parenthood and Mental Health: A Bridge between Infant and Adult Psychiatry

Volumn , Issue , 2010, Pages 429-442

  Herrman, Helen ^a   Fisher, Jane ^b   Rahman, Atif ^c   Cabral de Mello, Meena ^d   Chandra, Prabha S ^e  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MELBOURNE   (Australia)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MELBOURNE   (Australia)

^c UNIVERSITY OF LIVERPOOL   (United Kingdom)

^d WORLD HEALTH ORGANIZATION   (Switzerland)

^e NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF MENTAL HEALTH AND NEUROSCIENCES   (India)

Author keywords

Evidence gaps and implications for facilitating 'good enough parenting' in 21st century world; Facilitating 'good enough parenting' in twenty first century communities; Human rights, mental health and child health and development; Mental health of parents and infant health development in resource constrained settings; Parenting and mothers' social position; Preventing maternal mental health problems potential benefits for infant health and development; Promotion of infant health and development prevention of maternal mental health problems; Social determinants of compromised early childhood development and maternal mental health problems; Social model of mental health individual's illness determined by personal experiences

Indexed keywords

EID: 84886222533     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book    
DOI: 10.1002/9780470660683.ch37     Document Type: Chapter

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