[Management of pregnant women with chronic psychiatric disorders].
This paper describes the psychic changes occurring within motherhood and their effects on the various kinds of mental disorders. The necessity of a multidisciplinary preventive and intervention network is emphasized. However, prenatal assessment is not predictive of what will happen postnatally. Only with the birth of the infant will the assessment of parenting begin. Some modification of the infancy and childhood protective regulations could help improving this post natal assessment of parenting ability.
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Service de psychopathologie du jeune enfant, Institut de Puériculture de Paris, 26, bd Brune, 75014 Paris. guedeney1@aol.com
D001290:Attitude; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D001523:Mental Disorders / Q000150:complications / Q000628:therapy; D016487:Parenting; D011247:Pregnancy; D011248:Pregnancy Complications / Q000523:psychology*