TY - JOUR
KW - Child, Preschool
KW - Depression, Postpartum/diagnosis/psychology/therapy
KW - Depressive Disorder, Major/diagnosis/psychology/therapy
KW - Evidence-Based Medicine
KW - Father-Child Relations
KW - Female
KW - Health Promotion
KW - Humans
KW - Infant
KW - Infant, Newborn
KW - Male
KW - Mass Screening
KW - Maternal-Child Health Centers
KW - Mother-Child Relations
KW - Object Attachment
KW - Patient-Centered Care
KW - Pediatrics
KW - Perinatal Care
KW - Physician's Role
KW - Pregnancy
KW - Pregnancy Complications/diagnosis/psychology/therapy
KW - Referral and Consultation
KW - Societies, Medical
KW - United States
AU - M. F. Earls
AU - Committee on Psychosocial Aspects of Child and Family Health American Academy of Pediatrics
A1 - 
AB - Every year, more than 400,000 infants are born to mothers who are depressed, which makes perinatal depression the most underdiagnosed obstetric complication in America. Postpartum depression leads to increased costs of medical care, inappropriate medical care, child abuse and neglect, discontinuation of breastfeeding, and family dysfunction and adversely affects early brain development. Pediatric practices, as medical homes, can establish a system to implement postpartum depression screening and to identify and use community resources for the treatment and referral of the depressed mother and support for the mother-child (dyad) relationship. This system would have a positive effect on the health and well-being of the infant and family. State chapters of the American Academy of Pediatrics, working with state Early Periodic Screening, Diagnosis, and Treatment (EPSDT) and maternal and child health programs, can increase awareness of the need for perinatal depression screening in the obstetric and pediatric periodicity of care schedules and ensure payment. Pediatricians must advocate for workforce development for professionals who care for very young children and for promotion of evidence-based interventions focused on healthy attachment and parent-child relationships.
BT - Pediatrics
C5 - General Literature
CP - 5
CY - United States
DO - 10.1542/peds.2010-2348
IS - 5
JF - Pediatrics
N2 - Every year, more than 400,000 infants are born to mothers who are depressed, which makes perinatal depression the most underdiagnosed obstetric complication in America. Postpartum depression leads to increased costs of medical care, inappropriate medical care, child abuse and neglect, discontinuation of breastfeeding, and family dysfunction and adversely affects early brain development. Pediatric practices, as medical homes, can establish a system to implement postpartum depression screening and to identify and use community resources for the treatment and referral of the depressed mother and support for the mother-child (dyad) relationship. This system would have a positive effect on the health and well-being of the infant and family. State chapters of the American Academy of Pediatrics, working with state Early Periodic Screening, Diagnosis, and Treatment (EPSDT) and maternal and child health programs, can increase awareness of the need for perinatal depression screening in the obstetric and pediatric periodicity of care schedules and ensure payment. Pediatricians must advocate for workforce development for professionals who care for very young children and for promotion of evidence-based interventions focused on healthy attachment and parent-child relationships.
PP - United States
PY - 2010
SN - 1098-4275; 0031-4005
SP - 1032
EP - 1039
EP - 
T1 - Incorporating recognition and management of perinatal and postpartum depression into pediatric practice
T2 - Pediatrics
TI - Incorporating recognition and management of perinatal and postpartum depression into pediatric practice
U1 - General Literature
U2 - 20974776
U3 - 10.1542/peds.2010-2348
VL - 126
VO - 1098-4275; 0031-4005
Y1 - 2010
ER -