title: Families under stress: perinatal social work.
abstract: Although the medical treatment of critically ill newborn babies has advanced significantly in recent years, treatment of a family's emotional trauma brought on by the birth of an ill baby is relatively new. The authors examine the ways a family must cope with a sickly infant and suggest how a perinatal social worker can assist the family.
mesh_terms: D000293:Adolescent; D005190:Family; D005192:Family Health; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D007231:Infant, Newborn; D007232:Infant, Newborn, Diseases / Q000191:economics / Q000523:psychology*; D007362:Intensive Care Units; D008297:Male; D009725:Nurseries, Hospital; D010287:Parent-Child Relations; D010500:Perinatology; D012947:Social Work; D013315:Stress, Psychological