Assessing women's perinatal psychological health: Exploring the experiences of health visitors

Journal of Reproductive and Infant Psychology

Volumn 31, Issue 5, 2013, Pages 479-489

  Jomeen, Julie ^a   Glover, Lesley ^a   Jones, Catriona ^a   Garg, Deepak ^b   Marshall, Clare ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF HULL   (United Kingdom)

^b Clinical Psychology Service for Older People   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

assessment; health visitors; measures; perinatal; psychological

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; BEHAVIOR; CLINICAL DECISION MAKING; DEPRESSION; EDINBURGH POSTNATAL DEPRESSION SCALE; EMPOWERMENT; FEMALE; HEALTH PRACTITIONER; HEALTH VISITOR; HUMAN; MENTAL DISEASE; MENTAL HEALTH; PERINATAL CARE; PERINATAL PERIOD; QUALITATIVE RESEARCH; QUESTIONNAIRE; TRAINING;

EID: 84884414665     PISSN: 02646838     EISSN: 1469672X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/02646838.2013.835038     Document Type: Article

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