Perspectives of professionals on the perinatal period as a window of opportunity for change in women with SUD: insights from healthcare, child welfare, substance use, and child protection services
These findings underscore the need to move beyond hegemonic discourses that frame strength and deficit, mothering and substance use, or vulnerability and opportunity as binary opposites. Recognizing the ways these dimensions coexist and intersect is vital for developing responsive, relational, and ethically grounded models of perinatal care.
Authors
- Sarah De Pauw (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-4462-2755)
- Sarah Vandewalle (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-9433-2601)
- Wouter Vanderplasschen (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-6513-4243)
- Gilbert Lemmens (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-7532-6350)
- Sara Rowaert (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3976-1491)
Institutions
- Ghent University Hospital (BE)
- Ghent University (BE)
- SKiN Health (CA)
Publication Details
- Journal
- Frontiers in Psychiatry
- Published
- 2026-02-04
- DOI
- https://doi.org/10.3389/fpsyt.2026.1668040
- Primary Topic
- Prenatal Substance Exposure Effects
- Type
- article
- Field-Weighted Citation Impact
- 0.00