Perinatal mental health: a guide for health professionals and users

This book will cover most aspects of the recognition, treatment, care and management of postnatal depression and examine the way in which it affects mothers, their families, infants and society as a whole It will discuss the factors that impact and impinge on mothers lives and how they are expected to deal with them. This will include risk factors It will look at cultural aspects and how mothers may shield their families and friends from the morays of their depression, or as they see it, their inability to cope with their infant and life in general It will provide anecdotal evidence from mothers who have experiencedpostnatal depression but have not had it recognised and portray their sense of betrayal or disappointment primarily aimed at health professionals but endured by their family. It will examine how postnatal depression is detected usingthe Edinburgh Postnatal Depression Scale (EPDS) with discussion around the controversial issues its use has raised. Clinical judgement will be paramount not necessarily the remit of the GP, but where nurses can undertake the responsibility of diagnosis. It will outline the causes of postnatal depression, underpinned by research and will include the biological, societal and genetic causes etc It will discuss existing treatments pharmacological, behavioural, complementary etc The affect depressed mothers have on their partners and the effectof fathers experiencing postnatal depression will be discussed. This will generate discussion whether fathers can become postnatally depressed

• ISBN: 978-0-470-51068-1
• Editorial: John Wiley & Sons
• Encuadernacion: Rústica
• Páginas: 256
• Fecha Publicación: 10/07/2009
• Nº Volúmenes: 1
• Idioma: Inglés