Postpartum Depression: A Comprehensive Approach for Nurses

by Kathleen A. Kendall-Tackett and Glenda Kaufman Kantor

Book Overview

This book integrates recent research on postpartum depression (PPD), organizing it into a conceptual model and providing specific steps that can help professionals identify mothers who might be suffering from postpartum depression. The author proposes a model based on five independent risk factors that combine biological and psychosocial views: hormonal factors, other biological factors, traumatic birth experiences, infant factors and psychosocial...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0803950349
• ISBN13: 9780803950344
• Release Date: December 1992
• Publisher: Sage Publications, Inc
• Length: 166 Pages
• Weight: 0.81 lbs.