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A 5 years' experience of a parent-baby day unit: impact on baby's development.

par Moureau, Audrey ;Cordemans, Louise;Gregoire, Caroline ;Benoît, Pirmez;Delvenne, Véronique
Référence Frontiers in psychiatry, 14, page (1121894)
Publication Publié, 2023-02-01

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Psychiatric Mother-Baby Units are well established in France, United Kingdom, and Australia, mostly in full-time hospitalization. Inpatient units are considered as best practice for improving outcomes for mothers and babies when the mother is experiencing severe mental illness and many studies have showed the effectiveness of care for the mother or the mother-infant relationship. Only a limited number of studies have focused on the day care setting or on the development of the baby. Our parent-baby day unit is the first day care unit in child psychiatry in Belgium. It offers specialized evaluation and therapeutic interventions focused on the baby and involves parents with mild or moderate psychiatric symptoms. The advantages of day care unit is to reduce the rupture with social and family living.