This site is intended for healthcare professionals

Go to /sign-in page

You can view 5 more pages without signing in

Parental characteristics

Last reviewed dd mmm yyyy. Last edited dd mmm yyyy

Authoring team

These are generalisations, but helpful features may be as follows:

  • concrete thinking and poor planning ability, and low intellect combined with lack of knowledge, judgement and motivation
  • severe depression/neurotic disorders or substance abuse
  • angry, hostile mothers who feel persecuted by infants
  • chaotic lives and relationships
  • chronic medical problems
  • substance abuse

Create an account to add page annotations

Annotations allow you to add information to this page that would be handy to have on hand during a consultation. E.g. a website or number. This information will always show when you visit this page.