Psychiatric disorders in pregnancy and the postpartum
Subtitle: principles and treatment
By: edted by Victoria Hendrick.
Contributors: Hendrick, Victoria C., 1963-
Series: Current clinical practice
Publisher: Humana Press
Published: 2006
Place of publication: Totowa, N.J
Language: eng
Number of pages: 241
Subjects: Mental illness in pregnancy; Pregnancy in mentally ill women; Postpartum psychiatric disorders; Mental illness in pregnancy -- Treatment; Postpartum psychiatric disorders -- Treatment; Mental Disorders -- therapy -- Pregnancy; Postpartum Period -- psychology; Pregnancy Complications -- therapy
Description: Covers the treatment of the primary psychiatric disorders during pregnancy and the postpartum period. The chapters are organized by diagnosis and review the use of psychotherapeutic and pharmacologic approaches, including the safe use of psychiatric medications during pregnancy and breast-feeding.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: General considerations in treating psychiatric disorders during pregnancy and following delivery / Victoria Hendrick; title: Prevalence, clinical course and management of depression during pregnancy / Sanjor Kalra and Adrienne Einarson; title: Postpartum depression: a common complication of childbirth / C. Neill Epperson and Jennifer Ballew; title: Treatment of anxiety disorders in pregnancy and the postpartum / Jonathan S. Abramowitz, Karin Larsen, and Katherine M. Moore; title: Treatment of bipolar disorder during pregnancy and lactation / Lori Altshuler and Carol Kiriakos; title: Schizophrenia: pregnancy and the postpartum period / Mary V. Seeman; title: Pregnancy and substance abuse / Karen A. Miotto ... [et al.]; title: Eating disorders in pregnancy and the postpartum: empirically informed treatment guidelines / Debra L. Franko; title: Children of parents with mental illness: outcomes and interventions / Mary F. Brunette and Teresa Jacobsen.