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Staff Education, Liaison, and Program Consultation

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Psychiatric Consultation in Childbirth Settings

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In whichever context the reader chooses, the contents of this chapter have the potential for stimulating conflict or controversy among any group of mental health and childbirth professionals. Depending on what kind of end-point data one wishes to select, there may be much or little documentation that the activities and programs herein described are (1) cost-effective; (2) clinically beneficial, or (3) likely to have any long-range impact on the developmental outcome of the infant who is the product of the pregnancy.

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Cohen, R.L. (1988). Staff Education, Liaison, and Program Consultation. In: Psychiatric Consultation in Childbirth Settings. Springer, Boston, MA. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4684-5439-0_10

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