‘Listening visits’ in pregnancy: a strategy for preventing postnatal depression?

Clément, Sarah

doi:10.1016/0266-6138(95)90070-5

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“…The ‘‘blues’’ are usually treated as a normal part of early postnatal recovery, but women who experience a severe form may need more careful monitoring. There is evidence that women respond to interventions such as active listening techniques and information about local resources (29).…”

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A Simplified Predictive Index for the Detection of Women at Risk for Postnatal Depression

Webster

Pritchard

Creedy

et al. 2003

Birth

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A Simplified Predictive Index for the Detection of Women at Risk for Postnatal Depression

Webster

Pritchard

Creedy

et al. 2003

Birth

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“…It is therefore possible that the interview setting elicited greater reactivity due to greater detail, rather than the human interaction. However, detailed transcription demonstrated signs of the researcher being a "supportive and engaged listener" (Lambertz, 2011), suggesting similarities between the interviewer style and interventions such as listening visits, which have been recommended for the pregnant population (Clement, 1995;National Collaborating Centre for Mental Health, 2007). Transcription also demonstrated 'empathic receipts' to women's distress, which is critical given women's potential fears of labelling and unwanted professional involvement in the perinatal period (McIntosh, 1993).…”

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Assessment acting as intervention: findings from a study of perinatal psychosocial assessment

Darwin

McGowan

Edozien

2013

Journal of Reproductive and Infant Psychology

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Objective: To consider how psychosocial assessment in the perinatal period may act as an intervention.Background: Psychosocial assessment has been introduced into routine antenatal care in several countries but there has been no consideration of 'measurement reactivity', the effects of such processes on those being measured. Methods:Psychosocial assessment as part of routine antenatal booking and by selfcompletion of a research questionnaire, followed by interview of a purposive sample of 22 women who scored above threshold on maternal stress measures. Interviews were conducted up to three times during pregnancy and the early postnatal period, to explore women's experiences and understandings of maternal stress and to obtain their views on antenatal psychosocial assessment and social support. Transcribed data and field notes were analysed using Framework Analysis. Results:The potential for assessment to act as an intervention varied across different settings (clinical practice and assessment in a research context), with different methods (selfcompletion and assessment as part of a consultation or interview), and across individuals.Measurement effects were pronounced through longitudinal involvement, interviewer style and concurrently assessing the origins of psychological health and coping strategies. Conclusion:The analysis illustrates how reflexivity can enable new and often unexpected findings to emerge. The findings raise important questions about how the role of the research(er) is constructed, particularly when evaluating interventions. Clinically, the findings have implications for how we view psychosocial assessment within care pathways.

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“…Listening visits are also a form of talk therapy and may prevent PND if regularly performed in pregnancy (Clement, 1995). They lessen the mother's feelings of isolation (Gutteridge, 2001).…”

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“…This is a 10-item questionnaire that can be used with mothers or to detect PND in fathers (Murray & Cox, 1990;Clement, 1995;Littlewood & McHugh, 1997;Clement & Elliott, 1999). It has been specifically designed to detect PND (Beck C.T., 1992).…”

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Mood Disorders in the Puerperium and the Role of the Midwife: Study on Improvement of Midwives’ Knowledge About Post-Natal Depression After an Educational Intervention

Mivšek¹,

Zakšek²

2012

Clinical, Research and Treatment Approaches to Affective Disorders

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Family, not only in terms of cohabitation of two adults, but in term of intragenerational symbiosys, is formed with the birth of a child (Musek, 1995). Pregnancy and birth are one of the major transitions in the life of a family members; they can promote family's evolution (Nastran Ule, 1993) however if they represent adaptational stress that family members are unable to cope with, can have harmful effect, resulting in the mental crisis of individuals (Zavrl, 1999); especially the mother. Being a mother nowadays is harder that ever before. Parenthood must be squeezed in the rifts between the strata of social life-policy, economy, industry, trade ect. and parenthood is considered of low value in comparison with those cathegories. Child represents some sort of private luxury. Women, often professionally engaged, therefore expect the task of motherhood in a strategic spirit-they carefully plan the pregnancy, are determined to deal with the motherhood succesfully and to return as soon as possible into the 'normal state', this is life as before the pregnancy (Kitzinger, 1994; Gatrell, 2005). As they became aware that parenthood is a life style and that child affect all aspects of their life that is going to change forever, they can be surprised, or even feel traped. This feelings, beside the newborn care that can be stressful because of repetitive and monotonous everyday activities, can provoke in women feelings of loss-loss of professional identity, previous lifestyle, autonomy ect. (Mauthner, 1999; Beck C.T., 1995a). Because of high (and sometimes unrealistic) expectations that they developed in pregnancy for themselves as mothers, they can suffer the feelings of guilt and inadequacy because they failed to become 'perfect mother' and have 'innapropriate' feelings towards the child. They must realize that the perfect mother does not exist (Kitzinger, 1994); it is just an arteficial product of the society, created by the ilusions of the media with the reminders of praised traditional role of women. Self-esteem and self-confidence are exposed to severe stress during postpartum. A lot of women pass this transition unharmed, but some of them can not cope mentally with all the changes; they can respond with feelings of dissapointment, anger, guilt or even depression. It is ironic that family, social institution, primary constructed for reproduction, is at most at strike just with the birth of the child (Welburn, 1980).

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‘Listening visits’ in pregnancy: a strategy for preventing postnatal depression?

Cited by 17 publications

References 36 publications

A Simplified Predictive Index for the Detection of Women at Risk for Postnatal Depression

A Simplified Predictive Index for the Detection of Women at Risk for Postnatal Depression

Assessment acting as intervention: findings from a study of perinatal psychosocial assessment

Mood Disorders in the Puerperium and the Role of the Midwife: Study on Improvement of Midwives’ Knowledge About Post-Natal Depression After an Educational Intervention

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