Parental responses to infants in intensive care: the separation issue reevaluated.
The literature on mother-infant separation involving healthy newborn infants is discussed, and the validity of extrapolating these findings to high-risk infants is examined. The author suggests that factors other than separation are operative in parental response to the infant at risk, and that the quality of mother-infant interactions is ultimately more important than the early onset of these interactions.
D002652:Child Behavior; D002673:Child, Hospitalized / Q000523:psychology*; D003422:Critical Care; D004644:Emotions; D005190:Family; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D007231:Infant, Newborn; D007235:Infant, Premature, Diseases / Q000523:psychology; D007362:Intensive Care Units; D008425:Maternal Behavior; D008426:Maternal Deprivation; D009034:Mother-Child Relations; D009725:Nurseries, Hospital; D009769:Object Attachment; D010465:Perception; D011247:Pregnancy; D012107:Research Design; D012306:Risk