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Early mother-child relationship. The Copenhagen model of early preventive intervention towards mother-infant relationship disturbances. 1995

L Lier, and M Gammeltoft, and I J Knudsen

Child Psychiatric Department, Bispebjerg Hospital Bispebjerg Bakke, Copenhagen, Denmark.

The development of interactive patterns in the first year of life has been studied in healthy mother-infant pairs and in infants whose mothers have psychiatric or psychosocial problems, interfering with their relation to the child. During the first 3 months a relationship develops in healthy mother-infant pairs characterized by an intimate interchange of signals and responses between mother and child. The baby develops a basic pattern of social relating. During the next months the baby begins to expect the mother to fulfil it's wishes and still the mother adapts to and supports the baby's expanding capacities and needs. A beginning sense of self and not-self develops. At 10-12 months the infant is able to move around trying to examine everything within range. At this age the infant senses that there exist other wills and minds than it's own. The child looks at the mother and reads her expressions for "yes", "no", and "maybe". The mother can stop or encourage her child by verbal and body signals. At 12-18 months the child has developed a secure attachment apt to protect the child against later adversities. The development during the first year of life may be seriously disturbed if the mother cannot adapt to and support the baby's signals and needs. Relationship disturbances in the first year of life may be related to maternal or infant problems: Low birth weight babies, irritable babies with low stimulus tolerance and babies with withdrawal reactions following maternal alcoholism or drug abuse during pregnancy.(ABSTRACT TRUNCATED AT 250 WORDS)

UI	MeSH Term	Description	Entries
D007223	Infant	A child between 1 and 23 months of age.	Infants
D007231	Infant, Newborn	An infant during the first 28 days after birth.	Neonate,Newborns,Infants, Newborn,Neonates,Newborn,Newborn Infant,Newborn Infants
D008429	Maternal Welfare	Organized efforts by communities or organizations to improve the health and well-being of the mother.	Welfare, Maternal
D008603	Mental Health	Emotional, psychological, and social well-being of an individual or group.	Mental Hygiene,Health, Mental,Hygiene, Mental
D009034	Mother-Child Relations	Interaction between a mother and child.	Mother-Child Interaction,Mother-Child Relationship,Mother-Infant Interaction,Mother-Infant Relations,Interaction, Mother-Child,Interaction, Mother-Infant,Interactions, Mother-Child,Interactions, Mother-Infant,Mother Child Interaction,Mother Child Relations,Mother Child Relationship,Mother Infant Interaction,Mother Infant Relations,Mother-Child Interactions,Mother-Child Relation,Mother-Child Relationships,Mother-Infant Interactions,Mother-Infant Relation,Relation, Mother-Child,Relation, Mother-Infant,Relations, Mother-Child,Relations, Mother-Infant,Relationship, Mother-Child,Relationships, Mother-Child
D010553	Personality Development	Growth of habitual patterns of behavior in childhood and adolescence.	Development, Personality
D002657	Child Development	The continuous sequential physiological and psychological maturing of an individual from birth up to but not including ADOLESCENCE.	Infant Development,Development, Child,Development, Infant
D002668	Child Rearing	The training or bringing-up of children by parents or parent-substitutes. It is used also for child rearing practices in different societies, at different economic levels, in different ethnic groups, etc. It differs from PARENTING in that in child rearing the emphasis is on the act of training or bringing up the child and the interaction between the parent and child, while parenting emphasizes the responsibility and qualities of exemplary behavior of the parent.	Childrearing,Rearing, Child
D003718	Denmark	A country in northern Europe, bordering the Baltic Sea and the North Sea. The capital is Copenhagen.	Faeroe Islands,Faroe Islands
D005192	Family Health	The health status of the family as a unit including the impact of the health of one member of the family on the family as a unit and on individual family members; also, the impact of family organization or disorganization on the health status of its members.	Health, Family