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Fetal alcohol syndrome : a guide for families and communitites
Ann Pytkowicz Streissguth
Publisher: Paul H. Brookes Pub.,
Publish date: 11 August 2023
Summary
In 1973, psychologist Ann Streissguth was shocked by the lack of scientific documentation on the impact of alcohol on the unborn child. She sought to fill that void by dedicating her professional career to the study of fetal alccohol syndrome [FAS] and fetal alcohol effects [FAE]. In this compassionate volume, Dr Streissguth draws on her life's work, writting with wisdom and authority on essential issues surrounding these alcohol related problems topics include:
- diagnosis.
- teratology and brain damage.
- physical and behavioural manifestations.
- education.
- Services for high risk mothers.
- employment and advocacy.
- public policy. [AJ].
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