Treatment for Depression: Overview and Medications

Overview of Treatment of Postpartum Mood Disorders

 

· Maternal depression: A review of relevant treatment approaches for mothers and infants (Infant Mental Health Journal, 2006)

 

· Chronic depression in Bipolar Disorder (American Journal of Psychiatry, 2006)

 

· The Impact of Treatment Intervention on Parenting Stress in Postpartum Depressed Mothers: A Prospective Study (American Journal of Orthopsychiatry, 2006)

 

· Preconception Care Between Pregnancies: The Content of Internatal Care (Maternal Child Health Journal, 2006)

 

· Psychosocial and psychological interventions for prevention of postnatal depression:systematic review (British Medical Journal, 2005)

 

· Management of Bipolar Disorder During Pregnancy and the Postpartum Period (American Journal of Psychiatry, 2004)

 

· Adapting Psychosocial Intervention Research to Urban Primary Care Environments: A Case Example (Annals of Family Medicine, 2004)

 

· Treatment of postnatal depression: Effective interventions are available, but the condition remains underdiagnosed (British Medical Journal, 2003)

 

Combined Approaches

 

· Preconception Care Between Pregnancies: The Content of Internatal Care (Maternal Child Health Journal, 2006)

 

· A systematic review for prevention of postnatal depression: Psychosocial and psychological interventions (British Medical Journal, 2005)

 

· Enhancing Women's Mood and Energy: A Research-based Program for Subthreshold Depression Using Light, Exercise, and Vitamins (Holistic Nursing Practice, 2005)

 

· PRISM (Program of Resources, Information and Support for Mothers) Protocol for a community-randomised trial (BMC Public Health, 2003)

 

Medications

 

· Antidepressant Prevention of Postnatal Depression (PLosMedicine, 2006)

 

· Antidepressant therapy and C-reactive protein levels (British Journal of Psychiatry, 2006)

 

· Counseling pregnant women treated with paroxetine (Canadian Family Physician, 2006)

 

· Is maternal use of selective serotonin reuptake inhibitors in the third trimester of pregnancy harmful to neonates? (Canadian Medical Association Journal, 2005)

 

· Taking antidepressants during late pregnancy: How should we advise women? (Canadian Family Physician, 2005)

 

· Maternal Selective Serotonin Reuptake Inhibitor Use During Pregnancy and Newborn Neurobehavior (Pediatrics, 2004)

 

· The drugging of postpartum depression (Citizens’ Commission on Human Rights)

 

· Expert Consensus Guideline Series:Treatment of Posttraumatic Stress Disorder (Journal of Clinical Psychiatry, 1999)