Recognizing and treating postpartum depression
A practitioner's guide. Postpartum mood and anxiety disorders are today's most common post-birth complications, and affect at least 15% of all new moms. Recognition and treatment of these disorders can drastically improve a mother's health, her baby's development, and her family's well-being. This program will help practitioners determine who is at risk, differentiate between the baby blues and serious disorders, and decide which treatments will be the most effective for their patients. Practitioners will learn how to: Identify high-risk clients. Recognize various postpartum mood disorders Conduct a clinical risk-assessment interview. Recommend follow-up to improve outcomes for families. Recognizing & treating includes: accounts from real moms clinical interview questions. Overviews of treatment options. Personal depression story that can be played for client support groups "Comprehensive and up to date, this program breaks the silence about postpartum mood and anxiety disorders and emphasizes the critical aspects of assessment. It gives practitioners a wonderful beginning upon which to develop their own unique style of interviewing that will lead to the identification and care of women experiencing postpartum mental disorders."--Jeanne Watson Driscoll, PhD, APRN, BC Silver Award, How-to/Instructional - 27th Annual Telly Awards
Online Video, English, 2014
Kanopy Streaming, [San Francisco, California, USA], 2014