Citation

Cherland E, Matthews PC. Can. J. Psychiatry 1989; 34(4): 337-339.

Affiliation

Department of Psychiatry, University Hospital, Saskatoon, Saskatchewan.

Copyright

(Copyright © 1989, Canadian Psychiatric Association, Publisher SAGE Publications)

DOI

unavailable

PMID

2736479

Abstract

In this report we have examined the evaluation of a teenage mother who has attempted murder of her newborn. We have also assessed her for competency to mother the infant she attempted to murder and reassessed the outcome a year later. We argued in this case that with sufficient supervision and psycho-social counselling she could be given the possibility of parenting her infant. Upon follow-up a year later we found the child and mother to be supported within an extended family group and the mother managing the needs of her infant.

Language: en