Perinatal Mental Health and Care
A special issue of Healthcare (ISSN 2227-9032). This special issue belongs to the section "Perinatal and Neonatal Medicine".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: closed (31 January 2024) | Viewed by 18723
Special Issue Editors
2. Kitamura KOKORO Clinic Mental Health, Tokyo 151-0063, Japan
3. T. and F. Kitamura Foundation for Studies and Skill Advancement in Mental Health, Tokyo 151-0063, Japan
4. Department of Psychiatry, Graduate School of Medicine, Nagoya University, Nagoya 466-8550, Japan
Interests: personality trait; psychotherapy training; psychological mindedness; temperament and character inventory; self-directedness; harm-avoidance
Interests: perinatal mental health; infant mental health; early relationships; early intervention; parenting; bonding and bonding disorder
Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
We are pleased to invite you to contribute to this Special Issue of Healthcare, “Perinatal mental health and care”. In recent years, the importance of perinatal mental heath care has been increasingly recognised worldwide. Issues in this area include not only antenatal and postnatal depression, but also a wide range of clinical conditions related to maternal, foetal, neonatal, and family health. Thus, this Special Issue aims to highlight state-of-the-art research reports and reviews on the topic of perinatal mental health. Research areas may include—but are by no means limited to—the following:
- Antenatal and postnatal depression;
- Tokophobia;
- Obsessive–compulsive disorder;
- Foetal and neonatal bonding disorders;
- Suicidality;
- Intimate partner violence and marital adjustment;
- Neonatal abuse;
- Emesis directly related to mood, anxiety, or trauma-related symptoms.
We look forward to receiving your contributions.
Dr. Toshinori Kitamura
Dr. Yukiko Ohashi
Guest Editors
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Keywords
- pregnancy
- puerperium
- mood disorders
- anxiety disorders
- trauma-related disorders
- emesis
- parent–child relationship
- suicidality
- abuse experiences
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