When Baby Brings the Blues by Ariel Dalfen

Written by an expert on post-partum depression, this book offers new mothers an insightful, medically sound guide to recovery. It leads women out of the maze of depression, offering medical and psychotherapeutic options, practical lifestyle changes, and an array of resources for further support. It also includes a PPD diagnosis questionnaire. Top page

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A leading expert on postpartum depression offers new mothers an insightful, medically sound guide to recovery. A full 20 percent of new moms will be affected by PPD - but the good news is that PPD is very responsive to treatment. This guide, written by psychiatrist and internationally acclaimed PPD specialist Ariel Dalfen, leads women out of the maze of depression, offering medical and psychotherapeutic options, practical lifestyle changes, and an impressive array of resources for further support. Complete with a PPD diagnosis questionnaire, a treatment plan checklist, and a table of medications and side effects, this upbeat guide also includes daily affirmations used by Dr. Dalfen's own patients when recovering from PPD. Dr. Ariel Dalfen (Toronto, ON) is a psychiatrist at Mount Sinai Hospital in Toronto and an acclaimed lecturer and medical researcher in the area of post-partum depression. Top page

General info

Publisher & Imprint: Wiley-Blackwell (an imprint of John Wiley & Sons Ltd)

City: Chicester

Pages: 304

More info: height 216 mm width 141 mm weight 410 gr thickness 18 mm

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Age recommended: General/trade

Subject Indexing & Classification Dewey: 618.760092 Library of Congress Subject: Postpartum depression

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