Mom Power: preliminary outcomes of a group intervention to improve mental health and parenting among high-risk mothers

Archives of Women's Mental Health

Volumn 18, Issue 3, 2015, Pages 507-521

  Muzik, Maria ^a   Rosenblum, Katherine L ^a   Alfafara, Emily A ^a   Schuster, Melisa M ^a   Miller, Nicole M ^a   Waddell, Rachel M ^a   Kohler, Emily Stanton ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN   (United States)

^b Pine Rest Mental Health Services   (United States)

Author keywords

Maternal depression; Mental health; Parenting; Parent child intervention; PTSD

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; CHILD; CHILD PARENT RELATION; COMPETENCE; COPING BEHAVIOR; DEPRESSION; FAMILY THERAPY; FEASIBILITY STUDY; FEMALE; HEALTH CARE PERSONNEL; HELPLESSNESS; HIGH RISK PATIENT; HUMAN; LIFE STRESS; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MATERNAL ATTITUDE; MENTAL HEALTH; PATIENT PARTICIPATION; PATIENT SATISFACTION; PHASE 1 CLINICAL TRIAL; POSTTRAUMATIC STRESS DISORDER; POVERTY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROGRAM ACCEPTABILITY; PSYCHOTHERAPY; RISK FACTOR; SELF CARE; SINGLE PARENT; SKILL; SOCIAL SUPPORT; YOUNG ADULT; GROUP THERAPY; INFANT; MATERNAL BEHAVIOR; MATERNAL WELFARE; MOTHER; OBJECT RELATION; PATIENT ATTITUDE; PRESCHOOL CHILD; PSYCHOLOGY; SOCIOECONOMICS; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

ADULT; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; DEPRESSION; FEMALE; HUMANS; INFANT; MATERNAL BEHAVIOR; MATERNAL WELFARE; MOTHERS; OBJECT ATTACHMENT; PARENT-CHILD RELATIONS; PARENTING; PATIENT ACCEPTANCE OF HEALTH CARE; PSYCHOTHERAPY, GROUP; SOCIOECONOMIC FACTORS; STRESS DISORDERS, POST-TRAUMATIC; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 84930000548     PISSN: 14341816     EISSN: 14351102     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00737-014-0490-z     Document Type: Article

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