Postpartum Mental Health Disorders: A Casebook

Group for the Advancement of Psychiatry Committee on Gender and Mental Health, Edited by Gail Erlick Robinson, Carol C. Nadelson, and Gisele Apter

Offers practical guidance on the recognition and management of mental health disorders, including when to refer to a specialist
Provides case vignettes to illuminate the range of mental health symptoms that can present in postpartum
Each chapter includes an assessment tool to assist with diagnsosis

Postpartum Mental Health Disorders: A Casebook

Group for the Advancement of Psychiatry Committee on Gender and Mental Health, Edited by Gail Erlick Robinson, Carol C. Nadelson, and Gisele Apter

Description

Many psychiatrists, obstetricians, primary care physicians, nurse practitioners, and other health care professionals have not been trained to adequately identify psychiatric disorders that present in postpartum women, and yet are often faced with patients expressing mental health symptoms that may lead to serious problems.

Postpartum Mental Health Disorders: A Casebook offers brief, practical guidance on the recognition and management of postpartum mental health disorders, including depression, anxiety disorders, obsessive compulsive disorder (OCD), psychotic disorders, bipolar disorders, posttraumatic stress disorders, personality disorders and eating disorders. Written by experienced clinicians, chapters are organized into collections of case examples and are designed to provide at-a-glance information about diagnoses, treatment, and outcomes with advice on when to refer to a specialist. Each chapter also includes an assessment tool to assist with diagnosis and a list of risk factors for developing postpartum disorders. An appendix of screening questionnaires is provided at the end of the book.

Postpartum Mental Health Disorders: A Casebook

Group for the Advancement of Psychiatry Committee on Gender and Mental Health, Edited by Gail Erlick Robinson, Carol C. Nadelson, and Gisele Apter

1. Introduction
2. Risks for a Postpartum Disorder
3. Postpartum Adaptation: Normal; Baby Blues; Baby Pinks
4. Postpartum Depression
5. Postpartum Anxiety
6. Postpartum Psychosis
7. Postpartum Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder
8. Traumatic Childbirth and Postpartum Posttraumatic Stress Disorder
9. Personality Disorders in the Postpartum
10. Disorders of Attachment
11. Eating Disorders in the Postpartum Period
12. Prevention of Postpartum Disorders
13. Psychopharmacology in Pregnancy and Breastfeeding

Postpartum Mental Health Disorders: A Casebook

Group for the Advancement of Psychiatry Committee on Gender and Mental Health, Edited by Gail Erlick Robinson, Carol C. Nadelson, and Gisele Apter

Author Information

Contributors:

A product of the Gender and Mental Health Committee of the Group for Advancement of Psychiatry

EDITORS
Gail Erlick Robinson MD, FRCPC, C.M, O.Ont
Professor of Psychiatry and Obstetrics /Gynecology
University of Toronto
Sunnybrook Health Sciences Centre,
Women's Mood and Anxiety Clinic: Reproductive Transitions, Department of Psychiatry

Carol C. Nadelson MD
Professor of Psychiatry Harvard Medical School
Senior Psychiatrist Brigham and Womens Hospital, Boston, MA

Gisele Apter MD
Professor, Dept. of Psychiatry
Groupe Hospitalier du Havre,
Université de Rouen Normandie
Présidente SIP

CONTRIBUTORS
Gail Erlick Robinson MD, FRCPC, CM, O.Ont.
Professor of Psychiatry and Obstetrics /Gynecology
University of Toronto
Sunnybrook Health Sciences Centre,
Women's Mood and Anxiety Clinic: Reproductive Transitions,
Department of Psychiatry
Toronto, ON, Canada

Gisèle Apter, MD, PhD,
Professor, Dept. of Psychiatry
Groupe Hospitalier du Havre,
Université de Rouen Normandie
Présidente SIP
Normandy, France

Nikole Benders-Hadi, MD

Kara M. Brown, MD
Staff Psychiatrist
Southeast Louisiana Veterans Health Care Systems
New Orleans, LO

Judy A. Greene MD
Clinical Assistant Professor of Psychiatry
NYU School of Medicine
New York, NY
Sophie Grigoriadis MD, MA, PhD, FRCPC
Associate Professor, Department of Psychiatry, University of Toronto
Sunnybrook Health Sciences Centre,
Head, Women's Mood and Anxiety Clinic: Reproductive Transitions,
Department of Psychiatry, FG29
Toronto, ON, Candada

Danielle A. Kaplan, Ph. D.

Leena P. Mittal MD
Director, Reproductive Psychiatry Consultation Service
Divisions of Women's Mental Health and Medical Psychiatry
Department of Psychiatry
Brigham and Women's Hospital
Instructor of Psychiatry, Harvard Medical School
Boston, MA

Carol Cooperman Nadelson, M.D.
Professor of Psychiatry Harvard Medical School
Senior Psychiatrist Brigham and Womens Hospital,
Boston, MA

Kalam Sutandar MD
Assistant Professor
University of Toronto
Toronto, ON, Canada