Paper on Postpartum Depression
Added on 2020-05-11
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Running head: POSTPARTUM DEPRESSIONPOSTPARTUM DEPRESSIONName of the Student:Name of the University:Author Note:
POSTPARTUM DEPRESSION1Executive SummaryPostpartum depression is increasingly becoming a point of concern for modern psychology.Women, some of them, feel a terrible sense of gloom just after childbirth or during pregnancy.Often overwhelmed with the burden of the new responsibility, many new mothers find it difficultto cope. This trait is particularly higher in the women who are living in a place that is differentfrom their mother country. This makes it important to learn more about these symptoms andmental condition of the immigrant women to understand what emotions they feel and what setstheir depression on its way and how to provide them with the c are that would help care givers toensure these women’s mental stability. This paper would be trying to evaluate the depth of theproblem and which and how can strategies can be adopted to avoid such problems.
POSTPARTUM DEPRESSION2Table of ContentsIntroduction......................................................................................................................................3Background and rationale................................................................................................................3Research questions...........................................................................................................................5Research objectives.........................................................................................................................5Theoretical framework.....................................................................................................................6Research design...............................................................................................................................8Sample size....................................................................................................................................11Ethical issues.................................................................................................................................12Timeline.........................................................................................................................................12Limitations.....................................................................................................................................13Conclusion.....................................................................................................................................14References......................................................................................................................................16
POSTPARTUM DEPRESSION3IntroductionDuring the first few days of pregnancy and after childbirth, a woman experiences awhirlpool of emotions. These emotional experiences can be of a wide variety and the new mothermay feel in several different ways including happiness, bliss and joy, which are mostunderstandable for a mother. However, she also becomes prone to emotions that are not sogleeful. Sadness and helplessness are the two most widely experienced emotions that a newmother comes across, which is often referred to as “baby blues” (O'hara and McCabe 2013).While most of the women who experience these emotional turmoil post childbirth, overcome theproblems within one or two weeks, there are some who experience something more severe andextreme (Bina and Harrington 2016). The grim and gloomy feelings can be attributed to suddenhormonal changes while pregnancy and shortly after childbirth. While this is a serious issue foreven the people who are living in the “advanced” countries, who have all the privileges andadvantages of the world, one should try and imagine the ordeal that migrant women face.Anxiety can become much more intense when a mother is already facing problems ofpersecution and has to leave her own country to seek refuge in another. The current report wouldtake a look into the problems that entail of becoming a mother who has to flee the securities andassurances of her own home and try to understand the severity and the magnitude of the problem(Mehta et al. 2014). Background and rationaleRight after childbirth the hormone levels in a woman’s body drop, leading to chemicalchanges in her brain which cause mood swings. Sleep deprivation that arises from the need totake care of the newborn child can lead to further deterioration in the health condition of thewomen. Postpartum depression is not a weakness of character, it is a medical and mentalcomplication that arises from childbirth. When this postpartum psychosis develops among
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