Full Description
This package provides you with the book plus the eBook - giving you the printed book, plus access to the complete book content electronically. Evolve eBooks allows you to quickly search the entire book, make notes, add highlights, and study more efficiently. Buying other Evolve eBooks titles makes your learning experience even better: all of the eBooks will work together on your electronic "bookshelf", so that you can search across your entire library of Midwifery eBooks.This title is directed primarily towards health care professionals outside of the United States. It takes a comprehensive look at the issues surrounding mental illness and pregnancy. Describing common disorders and their relationship with pregnancy, it promotes an understanding of the issues involved and offers tools to providing the most effective woman-centred maternity care. All health professionals concerned with the wellbeing of the pregnant woman will find invaluable help and guidance in this book. Given the identification of mental health problems as a leading cause of maternal death (CEMD 2001), this is an essential guide to the effects of pregnancy and childbirth on women and families coping with mental illness.
Contents
1 Learning from women's experience of mental illness2 Understanding mental health: theoretical approaches3 Promoting mental well-being4 The development and organisation of contemporary mental health services5 Common mental health disorders6 Serious mental illness and the midwife7 Body image: change, dissatisfaction and disturbance8 Substance misuse and mental health9 Domestic abuse, violence and mental health10 Suicide and self-harm11 Who cares for the carer? Support for the midwife12 Mental health, mental illness and pregnancyAppendix Useful websitesIndex
