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

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 car...

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Published inInfant mental health journal Vol. 44; no. 5; pp. 614 - 624
Main Authors Zeanah, Charles H, Korfmacher, Jon, Lim, Issak, Steier, Alison, Zeanah, Paula D
Format Journal Article
LanguageEnglish
Published United States Wiley Subscription Services, Inc 01.09.2023
Subjects
Babies
Caregivers
Health visiting
Medical ethics
Mental health
maltreatment
medically ill infants
ethics
home visiting
infant mental health
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Summary: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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ISSN:0163-9641
1097-0355
DOI:10.1002/imhj.22062