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Home-based support has been shown to be a powerful and efficient tool for early evaluation and intervention, particularly in vulnerable families. These families often accumulate many psychosocial difficulties. They seldom rely on available medical and social institutions and find themselves at greater risk of developing disorders in early parent-child relationships and subsequent psychopathologies. The aim of this chapter is to further understanding of this prevention and intervention strategy. Therefore, the main issues here are to determine the benefits of such a practice, the conditions under which home visits can really be effective, and also the limitations of this time-consuming process.
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Le Foll, J., Guedeney, A. (2016). Ambulatory Care: Home-Based Perinatal Interventions. In: Sutter-Dallay, AL., Glangeaud-Freudenthal, NC., Guedeney, A., Riecher-Rössler, A. (eds) Joint Care of Parents and Infants in Perinatal Psychiatry. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-21557-0_9
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