Child Suicide Prevention on Medical Matters TV Show, Part 2

Published December 22, 2013

Child Suicide Prevention on Medical Matters TV Show, part 2
Part 2 of a series on child depression and suicide prevention from the Medical Matters TV show. See more medical shows online at medicalmatters.tv.

Brief Tools Effectively Diagnose Depression in Young Moms
"With a wider recognition of the high frequency of postpartum depression among teenage mothers and increasing evidence of the deleterious effects of postpartum depression on maternal and child health, routine screening as part of postpartum care is … Read more on Medscape

Scales effective for identifying adolescent patients with postpartum depression
Diagnostic criteria for incident postpartum depression according to the Structured Clinical Interview for DSM-IV Childhood Diagnoses were met by 18% of participants. At 3 and 6 months postpartum, there was a 12% prevalence of postpartum depression. Read more on Healio

Maternal posttraumatic stress disorder associated with increased risk for …
Posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD) in mothers appears to be associated with an increased risk for child maltreatment beyond that associated with maternal depression, according to a study published by JAMA Pediatrics, a JAMA Network publication. Read more on YottaFire