Essays on Postpartum Depression

LIMITED UNDERSTANDING OF THE PERCEPTION OF AFRICAN WOMEN IMMIGRANTS IN THE UK AS THE RESULT TO THE CURRENT TREND OF INADEQUATE CLINICAL INTERVENTION FOR POSTNATAL DEPRESSION PATIENTS Limited understanding of the perception of African Women Immigrants in the UK the Cause of the Current trend of inadequate Clinical Intervention

Introduction

Over the recent decades, the number of immigrants settling in the UK has grown exponentially to give the country a new outlook on cultural diversity. With these social changes, new demands have been imposed on the healthcare sector to provide health services in ways that promote social justice. According to ...

Latha K. (2016). Assessment of Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder Symptoms Among Postnatal Mothers Who Under Went Emergency Lower Segmental Caesarean Section, Government Hospital, Tambaram. International Journal of Pharmaceutical and Clinical Research 2016; 8(3): 172-175. Gross, C., L. (2016). Maternal age and postpartum depression during the transition to parenthood. Kent State University. Pdf. Using Survey from mothers and analysis of data from National U.S. Survey of Women’s Childbearing Experiments, the authors analyzed the relationship between age of first birth and postpartum depression. The results showed that there was no significant association between the age of first birth and ...

Abstract

Depression is a kind of mental disorder that can affect people’s feelings and everyday activities. It needs medical and psychological care, otherwise, it can cause such a fatal result as a suicide. Depression has its own symptoms and types that depend on different circumstances. Contemporary medical science has different methods of cure for depression that help people to overcome and even prevent it. Depression has been known from the ancient times and was considered as the demonic possession. Priests were the people responsible for it and they used exorcism as the method of the treatment. With the development ...

Search Method

For the purposes of this paper an electronic search was conducted using the following databases: CINAHL Complete ProQuest Health & Medical Collection Ovid Health Source: Nursing/Academic Edition Google Scholar The search parameters included English-only, peer-reviewed articles published between the years 2010 and 2016. The following keywords were used in the search: Postpartum depression Screening Quantitative Program Education The search produced a total of 1772 publications. The abstracts from these articles were screened and six studies were determined to be relevant to postpartum depression education and screening programs. Among these studies were one systematic review, one quantitative cohort study, two qualitative ...

Abstract

The current discourse hereby aims to present a description of a psychological disorder, specifically, postpartum depression. The discussion would provide the origin of the term, including an explanation of the disorder, the apparent causes, as well as relevant symptoms. In addition, the recommended treatment methods and approaches would also be expounded, as deemed needed. In sum, it was revealed that mothers who were afflicted with the disorder could recover through professional consultation, as well as through the holistic support of loved ones. The word ‘postpartum’ is a Latin term which means after childbirth and the origins of which were ...

The Yellow Wallpaper, by Charlotte Perkins Gillman, is a short story that was written in order to describe the total inefficiency of medical treatment for postpartum depression in its era, and to create a greater awareness of the lack of medical understanding of the condition. As such, the storm describes the primary character’s deteriorating mental health, as she descends into madness as a result of her depression. More specifically, her description of her environment, and the personification of the wallpaper directly represents her deteriorating mental condition. As the wallpaper’s descriptions become more vivid and charactuerized, the narrator’ ...

It is believed by many scholars like Ellen Moers, who wrote Female Gothic: The Monster’s Mother that when Mary Wollstonecraft Shelly wrote Frankenstein, she wrote the story as a reflection of her own fears and issues with parenting. I also think that Shelley may have felt that her offspring were somehow against the laws of nature and that this is why most of them died at birth or in early infancy. Where Victor only had created life from the confines of death, she herself brought death from what should have been life. This of course was no fault ...

Article Critique: Postpartum depression in mothers

FULL REFERENCE: Kozhimannil, K. B., Trinacty, C. M., Busch, A. B., Huskamp, H. A., & Adams, A. S. (2011). Racial and ethnic disparities in postpartum depression care among low-income women. Psychiatric Services.

RESEARCH QUESTION:

Are there are racial or ethnic differences and disparities in the prevalence of postpartum depression among African American, Hispanic, Native American, and White women?

RESEARCH HYPOTHESIS:

In the context that there exist significant knowledge and evidence gaps on other ethnic and racial groups in regard to the prevalence of post-partum depression, there is a high correlation between postpartum depression in low income African American women as compared to their White ...

Hypothetical study to Paternal Postpartum depression

Introduction Alden, Lowdermilk, Cashion and Perry (2014) define Paternal Postpartum Depression as a medical problem afflicting families i.e. fathers and mothers after childbirth. It is a clinical depression condition affecting both males and females. According to Demontigny, Girard, Lacharite, Dubeau & Devault (2013)the health condition have signs such as sadness, sleeping patterns change, reduced libido as well as frequent irritability. The postpartum depression have a couple of risk factors contributing to the condition for example sudden hormonal change (Demontigny et al., 2013). The condition brings about emotional effects such as parenthood anxiety, identity crisis as well as loss of ...

Giving birth to a baby can be an eventful and an emotional journey in the life of a woman. She will be going through emotions like extreme excitement, joy, fear and anxiety. In some cases, the condition maybe even worse than these and may result in a more complex condition. The pregnant woman can get into a stage of depression following the birth of a child. A good number of women across the world have shown the tendency to develop minor depressive symptoms following the birth of a child. These include symptoms like mood swings, involuntary crying and difficulty ...

Abstract

The World Health Organization (WHO), 2010 noted that recent research has identified several psychosocial and biologic risk factors for postpartum depression (PPD). Early recognition is one of the major challenges with this overwhelming mood disorder. The main focus of this project is to provide easy access to educational materials to aid in the screening, assessment, and treatment of women who experience depression during pregnancy or the postpartum period. PPD was amended by The American Psychiatric Association, in the 2013 Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders (DSM-IV), to peripartum depression and specifies that the onset of mood disturbance can ...

Depression is a mental medical condition that is characterized by a persistent and pervasive low mood, loss of enjoyment in normally pleasurable activities accompanied by a low self-esteem (Howell 2). Depression is a disabling medical condition that can affect negatively an individual’s work, family, eating habits, school life, the general health and social interactions. In the United States, for example, 3.3% of the total deaths are caused by suicide and other mood related disorders (Howell 2). An increase in the cases of deaths and other criminal activities due to depression in the US has caused a lot of ...

Effectiveness of health promotion methods designed to change lifestyle behavior and improve health and wellbeing in patients with mental health problems

INTRODUCTION

Health promotion is an art of medical science dealing with the study of biological, environmental, psychological, physical and mental research. To reduce premature death, giving the patients information on how to control and change their physiological activities such as the use of safety belts in cars and avoidance of substance abuse such as excessive alcohol. It is managed by a government agency such as Public Health Agency of Canada (PHAC). Health promotion plays a significant role in individuals ...

PATERNAL POSTPARTUM DEPRESSION

Introduction Postpartum depression (PPD) affects both the father and the mother after childbirth. It is also referred to as postnatal depression. Currently, most of the studies and clinical practice have devoted much time to the maternal postpartum depression thus ignoring the psycho-social problems faced by new fathers. The lack of attention on the paternal postpartum depression (PPD) has significantly contributed to the reasons why paternal postpartum depression is widely unknown phenomenon today (Demontigny, Girard, Lacharite, Dubeau & Devault 2013). Fathers have been significantly affected by the coming of the newborn babies into the world as much as mothers are. It ...

Introduction

It is rare to witness maternal infanticide in the United States. However, cases of maternal infanticide still come to pass. Postpartum mental illness contributes to a high proportion of maternal infanticide cases. This paper will focus on the contemporary, legislative and historical psychiatric points of view on infanticide. The paper also gives a discussion on the ways of promoting appropriate treatment of women committing infanticide out of mental illness and ways of improving the prevention of infanticide (Barak, 2003).

There was an history of psychiatric disorder in Mrs. Yates. Her first reported psychotic incident came after the birth of Noah. She ...