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- Title
Anomalies and the Mental Health Professional.
- Authors
McNEIL, THOMAS F.; NIMBY, GUN TORSTENSSON
- Abstract
A bstract: Parental attitudes and reactions to the identification of fetal anomalies generally represent well-documented, normally occurring phenomena. The appropriate clinical management of such emotional reactions is an important responsibility of the medical units delivering care and services to the parents. Medical policy decisions about whether and when to screen for offspring anomalies is a considerably more complex and controversial topic. Attitudes, feelings, and reactions both of parents and professionals to the identification of fetal abnormality and fetal normality have come to play an increasingly important role in such policy decisions. Adequate evaluation of the topic requires scientifically based knowledge of the psychological and psychosocial effects of screening of normal-risk and high-risk cases, as well as the short-term and long-term consequences of true positive, true negative, false negative, and false positive identifications of offspring abnormality. Only partial answers to these questions are available to date, and further empirical work is needed.
- Publication
Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences, 1998, Vol 847, Issue 1, p10
- ISSN
0077-8923
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1111/j.1749-6632.1998.tb08923.x