PREMATURITY AND INFANT-PARENT ATTACHMENT DISTURBANCES - ASSESSMENT AND INTERVENTION

Premature birth is a factor of impaired infant-parent attachment. In a ddition it is frequently associated with other factors of impaired att achment related either to the infant (mainly the various pathologies o f the premature infants and the hospitalization) and/or to the parents , specially the mother, The main characteristics of the normal process of infant-parent interaction are described as a basis for the early r ecognition and assessment of impaired interaction and preventive inter vention.