Long-Term Child and Family Outcomes after High-Risk Birth

Dear Colleagues,

We are very pleased to announce our plans to publish a Special Issue titled “Long-Term Child and Family Outcomes After High-Risk Birth”. High-risk birthing events create a complex landscape of medical, financial, functional, and developmental difficulties for families. Research shows that a high-risk birth significantly increases the risk for child developmental concerns across domains of cognition, behaviour, socioemotional regulation, neurodevelopment, and academic outcomes. The all-encompassing environment arising from high-risk births undoubtedly has the potential to bidirectionally impact on long-term child development. Despite this, empirical investigations on the impact of the family system on the child is limited. Therefore, to broaden the scope of this research area, this Special Issue will bring together international expertise, highlighting areas of both challenges and strengths for child development after high-risk birth.

• Your contributions to this Special Issue could cover a wide range of areas, including but not limited to the following topics: Characterisation of long-term outcomes for high-risk infants during childhood, adolescence, and adulthood.
• Evaluation of family and environmental risk factors on child development, such as parenting, attachment and bonding, sociodemographic indicators, and family adaptation.
• Exploration of the role of different caregivers on long-term child development, for example, birthing parents, non-birthing parents, and grandparents.
• Investigation of strengths-based child outcomes.

Dr. Grace C. Fitzallen
Dr. Ashwini Lakshmanan
Guest Editors

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• neonatal
• high-risk infant
• follow-up
• child development
• neurodevelopment
• mental health
• family
• parenting
• postpartum