When should a woman suspect that she has a trauma -
based postpartum mood disorder as opposed to postpartum depression?
Not exact matches
Board of directors for
Postpartum Support International, CT Chapter and offering training for other mental health professionals on perinatal
mood and anxiety disorders, traumatic birth and evidence
based birth.
«I specialize in the evaluation and evidence -
based treatment of a variety of mental and behavioral health difficulties, including:
mood disorders; anxiety and trauma; women's health (e.g., pregnancy,
postpartum); sexuality, sexual health, and sexual orientation; gender identity and expression; interpersonal relationships, communication, and infidelity.
Nancy is a founder and lead therapist of the new Evanston
based program, Beyond the Baby Blues, a 6 week group for women who are struggling with
postpartum mood disorders.
It has been reported that maternal PPD is a predictor of paternal one since the first is higher during the three months
postpartum.8
Based on the existing knowledge of maternal PPD, literature suggests that also paternal PPD could be related with hormonal changes regarding alteration of testosterone, estrogen, vasopressin, prolactin and cortisol levels.10 In addition to
mood disturbances, high parenting distress levels could also be considered a important factor compromising the parenting competence and the daily child care.17 Parenting stress is a construct related to the parent role and influenced by expectations and perceptions of child characteristics, parent characteristics and parental - infant interaction quality.