A Novel Collaborative Group Intervention for Mothers with Perinatal Mental Illness and Their Infants
“Together in Mind” is a group intervention for mothers diagnosed with moderate to severe mental illness and their infants.
A Simple Educational Intervention Reduces the Risk of Postpartum Intervention
While postpartum depression can affect all women, there are certain populations which appear to be at particularly high risk, including women of lower socioeconomic status. These women have limited access to resources and have multiple stressors including housing problems, financial strain, and being a single parent. Researchers recently piloted an intervention randomized controlled trial involving 540 participants at an inner-city hospital in East Harlem, New York. The primary goal of this psychoeducational intervention was to reduce the risk of postpartum depression among black and Latina mothers.