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Infant mental health and primary care: A qualitative study
No full textAwareness of infant mental health problems is crucial in promoting children’s emotional development. Government policies emphasize the importance of early identification of such problems for interventions to optimize future development. Health Visitors / primary health nurses have unique access to developing infants and their families, and are well placed to identify children who they believe could be helped by specialist services. In this book, Dr Eduardo Szaniecki covers aspects of conceptualization, classification, and methods available to assess infant mental health difficulties, offering an analysis of infant mental health as seen from the perspective of primary health care workers (health visitors). The book is a study, approached qualitatively, to describe how they perceive, define, and identify potential infant mental health problems, leading to recommendations to the infant mental health field and primary care practice
A relational systems psychodynamic approach to the understanding of group and organisational processes: The construction of 'the relational terrain'
Get PDFThis submission comprises a body of published works which update and extend the range of theories-in-use in the practice of Group Relations experiential learning, bringing a relational psychoanalytic framework to the understanding of groups and organisational dynamics, the practice of organisational change consultancy and the challenges of taking up complex professional roles.
The papers span a 15 year period, although the thinking that underpins them draws on a professional career of 40 years in social work, social work management, organisational consultancy and teaching for professional development. The past 25+ years have been in the context of small business management and ownership, which additionally allows for a perspective gained from fluctuating market and workplace practices. Throughout this career, I have worked extensively to create and promote conditions which can support professional judgement in challenging situations. I view this as a relational task which is both intrapsychic and interactional, and accessed through the making of links between inner world experiences of thoughts, feelings and fantasies, external world realities of organisational structures and processes, and the taking up of roles. I use psychosocial methodologies to help make sense of workplace dilemmas, and a broad repertoire of developmental interventions to effect change.
Accompanying the published works is a commentary which outlines the papers and their particular contribution to the field of professional practice. What emerges from meta-analysis of the publications are the foundations for a theory of interaction based on a new framework for understanding and working in organisations, and consulting to group behaviour. I have called this ‘The Relational Terrain’ and I expound and illustrate it with material from the papers, and from my consulting work.
I give evidence of the impact of these publications, of how and where ideas have been taken up, bringing fresh perspectives to established traditions, as well as practical value for clients attempting to effect change in themselves and their organisations. I suggest that there is now a groundswell of interest in the application of relational theories to group and organisational behaviour, and that this submission constitutes a body of knowledge which is ripe for a broader audience at this time
British Association for Psychopharmacology consensus guidance on the use of psychotropic medication preconception, in pregnancy and postpartum 2017
No full textDecisions about the use of psychotropic medication in pregnancy are an ongoing challenge for clinicians and women with mental health problems, owing to the uncertainties around risks of the illness itself to mother and fetus/infant, effectiveness of medications in pregnancy and risks to the fetus/infant from in utero exposure or via breast milk. These consensus guidelines aim to provide pragmatic advice regarding these issues. They are divided into sections on risks of untreated illness in pregnancy; general principles of using drugs in the perinatal period; benefits and harms associated with individual drugs; and recommendations for the management of specific disorders
