Pre-adoption adversity and self-reported behavior problems in 7 year-old international adoptees.

To further investigate the long-term impact of pre-adoption adversity on international adoptees, externalizing and internalizing symptoms were assessed using a self-report measure at school-age in addition to mothers' reports. The sample consisted of 95 adopted children and their mothers. Children's health and developmental status were assessed soon after arrival in their adoptive family.

[Septicemia associated with urinary infection in infants. Apropos of 36 cases].

While studying 213 cases of septicemia among children less than one year of age, we found 36 cases of septicemia with bacteriuria. Among these 213 septicemic children, urinary tract infection (UTI) was second only to meningitis as an associated focus of infection. A radiological investigation was done in 27 cases; the pyelography or the cystography was abnormal in 14 instances, and 6 of these 14 patients needed to be surgically corrected.

[The capabilities of the newborn and the parent's role.].

T. Berry Brazelton's newborn behavioural evaluation scale is described here in a perspective of parental education with regard to the post-natal period. The presentation to the parents of the diverse sensory and motor capacities of their newborn infant, contributes to the development of an intimate understanding of the early signals of their child.