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Español: Información Depresion Posparto
Postpartum Mood
Disorder Information
Other Languages
Links (Other Websites)
Visit Jane Honikman's
(PSI's Founder) new
website!
Order the PPD
Awareness Poster!
For Women / Mothers
PSI Weekly Free Phone Chat
Talk with a PSI PPD expert about resources, symptoms, options and general information about perinatal mood disorders from the privacy of your own home. No need to pre-register or give your name. Sessions are informational only and open to anyone with questions and concerns about themselves, a loved one, friend or family member. Limited to the first 15 callers, sessions are held every Wednesday.
Brief Introduction to Perinatal Mood Disorders
by Helen Jones
Support for New Moms: How to Build Social Support
by Carolyn White, RN, BSN
Postpartum Thyroid Information: Are You Exhausted?
by Laura Cramer
Department of Anthropology, Indiana University of Pennsylvania
UCLA Study on Friendship Among Women
by Gale Berkowitz
For Families & Partners
PSI Weekly Free Phone Chat
Talk with a PSI PPD expert about resources, symptoms, options and general information about perinatal mood disorders from the privacy of your own home. No need to pre-register or give your name. Sessions are informational only and open to anyone with questions and concerns about themselves, a loved one, friend or family member. Limited to the first 15 callers, sessions are held every Wednesday.
For Healthcare Professionals
PSI Weekly Free Phone Chat
Talk with a PSI PPD expert about resources, symptoms, options and general information about perinatal mood disorders from the privacy of your own home. No need to pre-register or give your name. Sessions are informational only and open to anyone with questions and concerns about themselves, a loved one, friend or family member. Limited to the first 15 callers, sessions are held every Wednesday.
Annual PSI Conference
PSI’s 22nd Annual Conference in Houston, Texas
This conference will be held in collaboration with The Women’s Mental Health Institute at the Mental Health Association of Greater Houston.
PSI Position Statement: Perinatal Mood Disorders, the Legal Arena and
Women’s Reproductive Mental Health Specialists
by Diana Lynn Barnes, Psy.D (President, PSI 2002-2004)
and George Parnham (Defense Counsel, Andrea Yates)
Report on the Potential Effects of Spousal Military Deployment and
Postpartum Depression
by Jessica Banas, PSI Online Coordinator, Online PPD Support Group
October 10, 2007
Empowering PPD Recovery with Dialectical Behavior Therapy
A Model to Support Multi Axial Focused Treatment in Perinatal Mood Disorders
by Susan Dowd Stone, MSW, LCSW
In-Depth Article about Postpartum Mood Disorder
by Laurence Kruckman and Susan Smith
Perspectives on Postpartum Depression and the Andrea Yates Trials
by Margaret Spinelli, MD
Putting Prevention into Practice: Closing the Gap Between
What We Know and What We Don’t in Women’s Healthcare
Essay by Jane Honikman, Founding Director of PSI
Postpartum Depression Legislation in the United States: A Brief History
By Sonia Murdock, Postpartum Support International President’s Advisory Board Member
En Español: Depresion Posparto
MedEd PPD: Mamás Los Demás
MedEdPPD.org es el sitio de Internet desarrollado bajo el auspicio del Instituto Nacional para la Salud Mental (NIMH, siglas en inglés del National Institute of Mental Health) para educar acerca de la depresión posparto (PPD, siglas en inglés de postpartum depression). En esta sección, Mamás y los demás, contiene información para las mujeres con depresión posparto, sus familiares y amigos.
MedEdPPD Brochure en Español
PDF File
Maternal and Child Library
Website, publications, and hotline in English and Spanish
MCH Hotline. Offers a hotline number to help pregnant women and mothers with newborns identify free or low-cost services for themselves and their infants in their communities. The MCH Hotline is a service of the Maternal and Child Health Bureau (MCHB).
The hotline phone number is (800) 311-2229 (BABY)
(800) 504-7081 (Spanish).
Postpartum Mood Disorder Information (Other Languages)
Downloadable brochures from Here to Help
A great mental health website in BC (Brochures in Spanish, Vietnamese, Farsi, Korean)
Links for Women (Other Websites)
Postpartum Progress
National blog promoting progress in treatment and comfort among sufferers of postpartum mood disorde