Advocating for Women with Postpartum Mental Illness - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Advocating for Women with Postpartum Mental Illness write by Susan Benjamin Feingold. This book was released on 2020-03-02. Advocating for Women with Postpartum Mental Illness available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Advocating for Women with Postpartum Mental Illness takes the reader into the world of one of the most misunderstood mental illnesses. Through this book, Feingold and Lewis humanize the mother’s experience and provide vital tools for mental health and legal professionals. Complete with case studies and the authors’ experiences in changing the law in their own state of Illinois, this book is a necessary resource for all.
Understanding Postpartum Psychosis
Understanding Postpartum Psychosis - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Understanding Postpartum Psychosis write by Teresa M. Twomey. This book was released on 2009-03-20. Understanding Postpartum Psychosis available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Offering an understanding of postpartum psychosis, this riveting book explains what happens and why during this temporary and dangerous disorder that develops for some women rapidly after childbirth. Most of us are familiar with the baby blues, a passing sadness that strikes 50 to 75 percent of new mothers after delivery. And most of us understand postpartum depression, a sadness post-delivery that lingers for weeks or months for an estimated one in every 10 new mothers. But a more serious form of disorder that strikes up to one in every 500 is postpartum psychosis - triggering severe agitation, confusion, insomnia, hallucinations, delusions, mania, and possible thoughts of suicide or murder. Every year, women in the United States and around the world kill their babies, children, and themselves as a result of this mental illness. Here, author Twomey, an official with Postpartum Support International, gives us insight into the psychological, personal, medical, legal, and historical perspectives on this little-understood mental illness, which is both preventable and treatable. While most women who suffer postpartum psychosis eventually recover without harming anyone, they most often do so in silence. Paranoia is a common symptom, explains Twomey, and that moves women to hide their symptoms from everyone around them. The woman can hence appear normal, but be putting both herself and her baby at risk. We can prevent and treat this, but we need to recognize it by better screening of women postpartum, says Twomey.
Perinatal and Postpartum Mood Disorders
Perinatal and Postpartum Mood Disorders - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Perinatal and Postpartum Mood Disorders write by Susan Dowd Stone, MSW, LCSW. This book was released on 2008-05-12. Perinatal and Postpartum Mood Disorders available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. "As a psychotherapist and educator of future mental health practitioners, I believe this work fills an important gap in reference books for professionals who care for childbearing women. Since the volume provides invaluable neurobiological research on depression and anxiety, I recommend this work to all health and mental health professionals."--Illness, Crisis and Loss Over the past three years, pregnancy related mood disorders have become the focus of health care advocates and legislators alike with subsequent reflection in nationwide media. Statistics on the prevalence of perinatal mood disorders suggest that up to 20% of women experience diagnosable pregnancy related mood disorders. The growing recognition of these common disorders, coupled with an increasing knowledge base about the dire consequences of untreated maternal depression, has propelled this issue to the fore of national public health priorities. This increasing awareness has also resulted in recent legislative and healthcare initiatives to screen, assess, and treat such disorders. On April 13, 2006, Governor Jon S. Corzine (D -NJ) signed a law requiring all new mothers to be educated and screened for postpartum depression. This law is the first of its kind in the country, but many states and federal advocates are proposing similar laws. The motivation for states and the federal government to adopt education and screening program is high and may soon be a federal mandate. But a major barrier to successful implementation of such programs is the lack of available resources to train healthcare professionals in this specialty. This book offers a major resource for healthcare professionals, mental health professionals, and medical, nursing, psychology, and social work students who will be confronting this problem in their practices. The contributions, by renowned experts, fill a glaring gap in the knowledge professionals need in order to successfully manage maternal mental health.
Therapy and the Postpartum Woman
Therapy and the Postpartum Woman - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Therapy and the Postpartum Woman write by Karen Kleiman. This book was released on 2008-07-24. Therapy and the Postpartum Woman available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. This book provides a comprehensive look at effective therapy for postpartum depression. Using a blend of professional objectivity, evidence-based research, and personal, straight-forward suggestions gathered from years of experience, this book brings the reader into the private world of therapy with the postpartum woman. Based on Psychodynamic and Cognitive-Behavioral theories, and on D.W. Winnicott's "good-enough mother" and the "holding environment" in particular, the book is written by a therapist who has specialized in the treatment of postpartum depression for over 20 years. Therapy and the Postpartum Woman will serve as a companion tool for clinicians and the women they treat.
Postpartum Mental Health Disorders: A Casebook
Postpartum Mental Health Disorders: A Casebook - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Postpartum Mental Health Disorders: A Casebook write by Group for the Advancement of Psychiatry Committee on Gender and Mental Health. This book was released on 2020-04-06. Postpartum Mental Health Disorders: A Casebook available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Many psychiatrists, obstetricians, primary care physicians, nurse practitioners, and other health care professionals have not been trained to adequately identify psychiatric disorders that present in postpartum women, and yet are often faced with patients expressing mental health symptoms that may lead to serious problems. Postpartum Mental Health Disorders: A Casebook offers brief, practical guidance on the recognition and management of postpartum mental health disorders, including depression, anxiety disorders, obsessive compulsive disorder (OCD), psychotic disorders, bipolar disorders, posttraumatic stress disorders, personality disorders and eating disorders. Written by experienced clinicians, chapters are organized into collections of case examples and are designed to provide at-a-glance information about diagnoses, treatment, and outcomes with advice on when to refer to a specialist. Each chapter also includes an assessment tool to assist with diagnosis and a list of risk factors for developing postpartum disorders. An appendix of screening questionnaires is provided at the end of the book.
