Psychiatric Disordersin Pregnancy and the Postpartum

Psychiatric disorders during pregnancy and the postpartum period are common, underappreciated, and underdiagnosed maladies that affect many women at a time of their lives that they have long anticipated would be perhaps the happiest. These disorders rob both the woman and her child of the opportunity to enjoy and appreciate some of the most warm, comforting,

Testing Baby

What draws me most compellingly to the discipline of sociology is its funda- mental claim that context matters. This seems such a self-evident observation, yet I continue to marvel at how profound an insight it really is. And never has the structural power of my own life context been demonstrated to me more concretely than during the process of researching and writing this book. I could …

Pregnancy, Childbirth, Postpartum and Newborn Care:A guide for essential prac…

In modern times, improvements in knowledge and technological advances have greatly improved the health of mother and children. However, the past decade was marked by limited progress in reducing maternal mortality and a slow-down in the steady decline of childhood mortality observed since the mid 1950s in many countries, the latter being largely due to a failure to reduce neonatal mortality.

Blackwell Handbook of Adolescence

Gerald R. Adams is a Distinguished Professor of Teaching at the University of Guelph. He has been the editor for the Journal of Adolescent Research and associate editor for the Journal of Primary Prevention and the Journal of Early Adolescence. His research interests focus on the study of identity formation, parent–adolescent relationships, and social development during childhood, adolesc…

ABC OF ANTENATAL CARE

Preface The chapters in this book appeared originally as articles in the British Medical Journal and were welcomed by practitioners. The articles were retuned for publication as a book, the first edition appearing in 1992. Demand asked for more and so the book was updated for a second, a third and now a fourth edition in 2002. Antenatal care has evolved from a philanthropic service for mo…

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POSTPARTUM MOODAND ANXIETY DISORDERS

In 1993, at the annual convention of the Association of Women’s Health, Obstetrical, and Neonatal Nursing in Reno, Nevada, we (Cheryl and Jeanne) were walking down the hall from opposite directions when our eyes met each other’s name tag; our walking came to a halt. We were finally going to meet, something that each of us had hoped would happen for a long time. We were aware of the oth…

Pharmacology for theHealth Care Professions

Preface The need for a book such as this one has arisen as a result of recent changes in legislation and expansion in the numbers of health care professionals involved in administration and/or prescription of medicines. The book is an introduction to pharmacology for health care professionals. Although anyone involved in the care of patients is a health care professional, this book has b…

THE ART OF PUBLIC SPEAKING, THIRTEENTH EDITION

When I wrote the first edition of The Art of Public Speaking, I could not have imagined the extraordinary response the book would receive. I am deeply appreciative of the students and teachers who have made it the leading work on its subject at colleges and universities across the United States and around the world. In preparing this edition, I have retained what readers have identified as the …

Communication in Everyday Life : The Basic Course Edition With Public Speaking

Communication in Everyday Life: The Basic Course Edition With Public Speaking has been written to provide students with a new kind of introduction to the central issues and topics of communication. Accordingly, it can serve as the course textbook for general education courses in communication, as the course textbook for survey courses taken by communication majors, and as a resource for anyone …