[Learning from parents: qualitative study into an integrated family approach for parent and child].

Background: The risk of transmission of psychopathology from parent to child is high. Psychological disorders of parents have an influence on parenting and on the development of the young child. An integrated treatment for parent and child, in which professionals from adult and infant mental health teams work together, is still not commonplace.

The Patient's Voice as a Parent in Mental Health Care: A Qualitative Study.

Objective: This study is an evaluation of patients in mental health care who have undertaken treatment with an integrated family approach. The treatment focuses on the mental disorders of patients, their role as parents, the development of their young children, and family relationships. The treatment was conducted by professionals from an adult and a child mental health service in the Netherlands.

The MemoFlex II, a non-robotic approach to follow-the-leader motion of a snake-like instrument for surgery using four predetermined physical tracks.

The fields of Minimally Invasive Surgery (MIS) and Natural Orifices Transluminal Endoscopic Surgery (NOTES) strive to reduce the level of invasiveness by entering the body through smaller incisions and natural orifices. Hyper-redundant snake-like instruments can help in this pursuit of reducing invasiveness. Such instruments can pass along multi-curved pathways through the body without any support or guidance from its anatomical environment.

Exploring non-assembly 3D printing for novel compliant surgical devices.

In minimally invasive surgery, maneuverability is usually limited and a large number of degrees of freedom (DOF) is highly demanded. However, increasing the DOF usually means increasing the complexity of the surgical instrument leading to long fabrication and assembly times. In this work, we propose the first fully 3D printed handheld, multi-steerable device.

Catheter steering in interventional cardiology: Mechanical analysis and novel solution.

In recent years, steerable catheters have been developed to combat the effects of the dynamic cardiac environment. Mechanically actuated steerable catheters appear the most in the clinical setting; however, they are bound to a number of mechanical limitations. The aim of this research is to gain insight in these limitations and use this information to develop a new prototype of a catheter with increased steerability.