Ethical dilemmas in infant mental health: Examples from child protection, home visiting, and medical contexts

IF 2.1 3区心理学 Q3 PSYCHOLOGY, DEVELOPMENTAL

Infant Mental Health Journal Pub Date : 2023-05-29 DOI:10.1002/imhj.22062

Charles H. Zeanah, Jon Korfmacher, Issak Lim, Alison Steier, Paula D. Zeanah

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Abstract

Infant mental health is explicitly relational and strengths based as a field. Ethical dilemmas in infant mental health have received insufficient attention at the level of infant mental health professionals (IMHP) and other professionals caring for infants who must grapple with questions of when caregivers and infants have conflicting interests. We present composite cases drawn from North American and Australian contexts, using three systems in which such conflicts may commonly manifest: child protection, home visiting, and medical settings. The field of infant and early childhood mental health (IECMH) should begin to discuss such dilemmas and how best to balance the needs of caregivers and infants when they are not well aligned.

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婴儿心理健康中的伦理困境:来自儿童保护、家访和医疗环境的例子

婴儿心理健康是一个明确的关系和优势为基础的领域。婴儿心理健康的伦理困境在婴儿心理健康专业人员(IMHP)和其他照顾婴儿的专业人员的层面上没有得到足够的重视，他们必须努力解决照顾者和婴儿何时有利益冲突的问题。我们介绍了来自北美和澳大利亚的复合案例，使用了三种系统，其中这种冲突可能经常出现:儿童保护、家访和医疗环境。婴儿和幼儿心理健康领域(IECMH)应该开始讨论这种困境，以及如何最好地平衡照顾者和婴儿的需求，当他们没有很好地协调一致。

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Infant Mental Health Journal PSYCHOLOGY, DEVELOPMENTAL-

CiteScore

4.10

自引率

8.30%

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期刊介绍： The Infant Mental Health Journal (IMHJ) is the official publication of the World Association for Infant Mental Health (WAIMH) and the Michigan Association for Infant Mental Health (MI-AIMH) and is copyrighted by MI-AIMH. The Infant Mental Health Journal publishes peer-reviewed research articles, literature reviews, program descriptions/evaluations, theoretical/conceptual papers and brief reports (clinical case studies and novel pilot studies) that focus on early social and emotional development and characteristics that influence social-emotional development from relationship-based perspectives. Examples of such influences include attachment relationships, early relationship development, caregiver-infant interactions, infant and early childhood mental health services, contextual and cultural influences on infant/toddler/child and family development, including parental/caregiver psychosocial characteristics and attachment history, prenatal experiences, and biological characteristics in interaction with relational environments that promote optimal social-emotional development or place it at higher risk. Research published in IMHJ focuses on the prenatal-age 5 period and employs relationship-based perspectives in key research questions and interpretation and implications of findings.