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When Baby Brings the Blues: Family Therapy and Postnatal Depression
Author(s) -
Hunt Christine
Publication year - 2006
Publication title -
australian and new zealand journal of family therapy
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.297
H-Index - 19
eISSN - 1467-8438
pISSN - 0814-723X
DOI - 10.1002/j.1467-8438.2006.tb00724.x
Subject(s) - blues , mental health , depression (economics) , family therapy , psychological intervention , vignette , psychology , psychiatry , project commissioning , publishing , psychotherapist , medicine , social psychology , political science , law , economics , macroeconomics , art history , art
Postnatal depression impacts on a significant number of women and their families. As a topic it is attracting much interest from researchers as we become clearer about its impact on the long‐term mental health of both women and their partners, as well as on the couple's relationship and their children's mental health. This article will provide a brief overview of postnatal depression and the current research associated with it, and consider the usefulness of systemic family therapy interventions. Examples of these are included along with a clinical vignette.