Children With Prenatal Drug Exposure

Lynette S Chandler, Shelly J Lane

• Publisher: Routledge
• Year: 2014
• eBook ISBN: 9781317826873
• Topic: Psychology
• Subtopic: Occupational Therapy
• Index: Psychology

Children With Prenatal Drug Exposure examines new medical approaches for predicting the developmental progress of children who have been exposed to drugs in utero. This book outlines effective methods for intervention and assessment and indicates future directions for investigation. It provides practical and up-to-date information on treatments and research development, while it encourages practitioners to come to their own conclusions through careful documentation and analysis of each case.Children With Prenatal Drug Exposure cuts across many disciplines to provide the reader with a vivid analysis of the complexities and challenges surrounding health care of children who have been prenatally exposed to drugs. This guidebook explores the controversies over treatment and therapy options and the ethics of care. It advocates positive outcome intervention methods that promote the health interests of both mother and unborn child whenever possible, with an emphasis on clinical efforts geared to change maternal behavior.Practical and comprehensive, Children With Prenatal Drug Exposure explores a full range of provoking topics, including:

• neurological effects and sensory motor delays caused by cocaine exposure
• foster care and its impact on motor development
• adolescent pregnancy and the complications of prenatal substance abuse
• ethical dilemmas
• multidimensional measurement systems and longitudinal researchThe book's authors believe that in order to meet the needs of children who have been prenatally exposed to drugs, care providers must know the limitations associated with the process and methodology of assessment and learn to address the shortcomings of evaluation. With this in mind, this book aims to equip psychologists, physical and occupational therapists, researchers, and physicians with the "know-how" they require for optimizing their health care services and contributing valuable research that the field so urgently needs.

Index

Page numbers followed by f indicate figures; page numbers followed by t indicate tables.

Aboagyne, K., 116

Abortion

conflicting rights issues and, 10

effect on child health and maternal responsibility, 12

Adamitis, S.M., 68

Adolescent(s)

alcohol use in, prevalence, 111

marijuana use in, prevalence, 111

pregnancy in

alcohol use during, ffects on offspring, 115

complications of prenatal

substance use on, 111–128

Pittsburgh study, 116–123. See also under Pittsburgh study

effects on children, 112–113

effects on mother, 113–114

infants with low birth rate due to, 112

marijuana use during, effects on offspring, 115–116

obstetric complications due to, 113–114

prevalence, 111

tobacco use during, effects on offspring, 114–115

smoking among, prevalence, 111

Adversarial rights-based model, critique of, 8–10

Akbari, H.M., 25

Alcohol. See also Substance abuse

prenatal exposure to, jitteriness dueto, 41

Alcohol use

during adolescent pregnancies, effects on offspring, 115, 119

in adolescents, prevalence, 111

during regnancy, effects on infants and young children, 54

Alessandri, S.M., 68

Alpert, J., 116

Amaro, H., 114, 116

Analyses of covariance (ANCOVAs), in assessment of motor behavior in children following prenatal drug exposure, 98

Anderson, G.M., 24

Anemia, in adolescent mothers, 113

Angelopoulos, J., 134

Anxiety, in substance abusers, 56

Arendt, R., 134

Aten, M.A., 67

Autonomy, defined, 8

Azmitia, E.C., 25

Balance, in assessment of motor behavior in children following prenatal drug exposure, 96

Bandstra, E., 139

Barzelay, D., 22

Bass, O., 134

Battelle Developmental Inventory (BDI) screening test, in assessment of children in foster care prenatally exposed to cocaine, 155–171

discussion, 164, 167–169

measures in, 161–162

method, 158–162, 159t,160t

procedure, 162

results, 162–164, 163t-166t

sample, described, 162–163

subjects in, 158–160, 159t,160t

Baucher, H., 116

Bayley Infant Behavior Record (IBR), in as...

Table of contents

• Cover
• Half Title
• Title Page
• Copyright Page
• Table of Contents
• About the Editors
• Introduction
• The Mother-Fetal Dyad and the Ethics of Care
• Cocaine: An Overview of Use, Actions, and Effects
• Neuromotor Outcome of Infants Exposed Prenatally to Cocaine: Issues of Assessment and Interpretation
• Clinical Considerations in the Assessment of Infants and Young Children Affected by Parental Substance Abuse
• Issues of Developmental Measurement in Clinical Research and Practice Settings with Children Who Were Prenatally Exposed to Drugs
• Motor Behavior in Children Exposed Prenatally to Drugs
• Adolescent Pregnancy and the Complications of Prenatal Substance Use
• Fetal Cocaine Exposure: Neurolegic Effects and Sensory-Motor Delays
• The Relationship Between the Movement Assessment of Infants and the Fagan Test of Infant Intelligence in Infants with Prenatal Cocaine Exposure
• Development of Children in Foster Care: Comparison of Battelle Screening Test Performance of Children Prenatally Exposed to Cocaine and Non-Exposed Children
• Assessment of Fetal Knee Angular Velocity as a Possible Method to Determine the Effect of Prenatal Exposure to Cocaine
• Index