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B Barnett

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PubMed1997

A group programme for postnatally distressed women and their partners.

A group programme for postnatally distressed women and their partners is described. The programme consists of eight sessions, including one session for the couple. The concerns of the women centre around their anxieties and feelings towards their partners, their own mothers and their infants. Psychotherapeutic and cognitive-behavioural strategies are employed to assist them in dealing with these concerns. The concerns of the men centre around their attempts to provide emotional and practical support to their partner. Invariably such support results in an increase in tension between the partners, and the programme helps the men to understand why this happens. Formal measures show a decrease in maternal distress over time and an increase in their level of self-esteem. About half of the men show elevated levels of distress.

Adaptation, Psychological↗
PubMed1996

Postpartum psychiatric disorder: who should be admitted and to which hospital?

OBJECTIVE: To review the question of whether an infant should be admitted to psychiatric services when a severe psychiatric disorder necessitates admission of the mother. METHOD: All available literature on mother-infant joint admission was reviewed and arguments for and against are summarised. RESULTS: Early reports favoured joint admission, then opinions changed, possibly for economic reasons. Recent thinking encompasses research data on (i) longer-term adverse effects of postnatal depression on the children, and (ii) the finding of psychological and psychiatric morbidity in many of the fathers. Joint admission to designated special units is valuable, but such facilities are only cost-efficient and effective if established as part of an appropriate broader plan for managing postpartum, psychiatric disorder. CONCLUSIONS: (1) Further research is needed to answer this question definitively. (2) Services at primary and secondary level require expansion. (3) All services should target the whole family.

Ambulatory Care↗