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Blue Nude by Pablo Picasso Postpartum
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This course meets the qualifications for 2 hours of continuing education units
We are pleased and honored to offer another course by Gayle Peterson, LCSW, PhD, a renowned family therapist, prenatal and child development specialist.
Postpartum
depression affects women of childbearing age without regard to
socioeconomic strata, educational, racial, ethnic backgrounds or specific
age range in western societies, except that adolescent mothers experience
an increased risk for PPD. It is interesting to note that postpartum depression
occurs at significantly lower levels in non-western cultures. Presumably
this difference is due to a greater, extended social support structure
for mothers in non-western cultures, along with less conflicted roles for
women as mothers, both psychologically and economically.
Our society pressures women to be “good” mothers, but simultaneously
devalues the work of nurturing. Although lip service has been given to the importance
of motherhood and staying home to raise children, especially in the first year
of a child’s life, women in the United States fare worse than their European
counterparts in Sweden, France, Canada and other countries that offer government
support programs to help families raise children. With little public debate,
the United States has chosen a radically different approach to maternity leave
than the rest of the developed world.
“ The United States and Australia are the only industrialized countries
that don't provide paid leave for new mothers nationally, though there are exceptions
in some U.S. states.
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This course meets the qualifications for 2 hours of continuing education units
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Gayle
Peterson, LCSW, PhD is a family
therapist specializing in prenatal and family development.
She is a research consultant on the effects of mindfulness training
on postpartum depression and improving the maternal - child
relationship under Cassandra
Vieten, PhD, Associate Scientist, California Pacific Medical
Center Research Institute San Francisco,
California.
