Preventing postpartum depression: review and recommendations

Archives of Women's Mental Health

Volumn 18, Issue 1, 2015, Pages 41-60

  Werner, Elizabeth ^a   Miller, Maia ^a   Osborne, Lauren M ^b   Kuzava, Sierra ^a   Monk, Catherine ^a  

^a NewYork Presbyterian Hospital   (United States)

^b JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

Intervention; Mood disorders; Postpartum depression; Pregnancy; Prevention

Indexed keywords

ANTIDEPRESSANT AGENT; BIOLOGICAL PRODUCT; PSYCHOTROPIC AGENT; TRACE ELEMENT;

COGNITIVE THERAPY; HUMAN; POSTNATAL CARE; PREDICTIVE VALUE; PRENATAL CARE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PSYCHOLOGICAL ASPECT; PSYCHOTHERAPY; PUERPERAL DEPRESSION; QUALITATIVE ANALYSIS; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIAL (TOPIC); REVIEW; RISK FACTOR; SOCIAL PSYCHOLOGY; SOCIAL SUPPORT; DEPRESSION, POSTPARTUM; FEMALE; MOTHER; PROCEDURES; PSYCHOLOGY;

DEPRESSION, POSTPARTUM; FEMALE; HUMANS; MOTHERS; PSYCHOTHERAPY; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIALS AS TOPIC; SOCIAL SUPPORT;

EID: 84930670286     PISSN: 14341816     EISSN: 14351102     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00737-014-0475-y     Document Type: Review

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