NIMH Offers Healthcare Pros Downloadable Pocket Card for Suicide Assessment
Healthcare providers can follow this link to download the Suicide Assessment Five-Step Evaluation and Triage (SAFE-T) pocket card. It provides protocols for conducting a comprehensive suicide assessment, eliminating suicide risk, identifying protective factors, and...Boston Globe Endorses Postpartum Depression Screening Legislation in Massachusetts
The editorial board at the Boston Globe has come out in favor of legislation that would require postpartum depression screening in Massachusetts. "Early detection could stave off far more serious problems for mothers and their babies, whose well-being is deeply...ACOG Strongly Encourages Prenatal & Postpartum Depression Screening
Yesterday I drafted an open letter to Dr. Gerald F. Joseph, president of the American College of Obstetricians and Gynecologists, to ask him what he planned to do to support his stated platform of postpartum depression. Here’s just a bit of it. I know...Study Finds Internet Effective Way to Administer PPD Screens
The March 2009 issue of Maternal Child Health Journal offers a study from researchers at George Washington University and Johns Hopkins that examined using the Internet to screen for postpartum depression symtpoms. The Postpartum Depression Screening Scale (PDSS) and...Why Universal Screening for PPD is Necessary
I found an excellent article on Health Commentary calling for universal screening for PPD written by Amy Gagliardi, a writer and research based at Yale University. Check out the whole piece, but here is a highlight:Wilen and Mounts in their article, Women with...
Meet Katherine
Katherine Stone is the creator of Postpartum Progress. She is a survivor of postpartum anxiety & OCD. Follow her on Twitter at @postpartumprog or on Instagram at @katherine_stone.
Meet Katherine
Katherine Stone is the creator of Postpartum Progress. She is a survivor of postpartum anxiety & OCD. Follow her on Twitter at @postpartumprog or on Instagram at @katherine_stone.