Postpartum Depression and Child Development

Examines the impact of parental psychiatric disorder on parenting and child development. One in ten women suffers from an episode of significant depression after birth - effecting the quality of the mother-infant relationship. One in ten women suffers from an episode of significant depression following the birth of a baby. These depressions can have a profoundly negative effect on the quality of the mother infant relationship and, in turn, on the course of child development itself. The first book in a decade to deal exclusively with the impact of postpartum depression on child development, this groundbreaking volume brings together rigorous and sophisticated research from eighteen of the leading authorities in the field.