Matria Healthcare Offers PPD Support to New Moms.
HEALTH AND BEAUTY CLOSE-UP-8 August 2008-Matria Healthcare Offers PPD Support to New Moms(C)2008 - CloseUpMedia - newsdesk@closeupmedia.com Matria Healthcare, a subsidiary of Inverness Medical Innovations, announced that it has launched its MaternaLink Postpartum Depression (PPD) Screening Program, an important new service to help identify new moms at...

Profile of incarcerated juveniles: comparison of male and female offenders.
JUVENILE JUSTICE It is becoming increasingly important to understand the characteristics of juvenile offenders in order to decrease and prevent juvenile delinquency (Jenson, Potter, & Howard, 2001; Snyder & Sickmund, 2006). According to FBI 2004 arrest statistics, juveniles committed 15.5% of violent crimes and 27.5% of property...

Antisocial behavior and depressive symptoms: longitudinal and concurrent relations.
INTRODUCTION The existing base of empirical evidence has established that both depressive symptoms (Gutman & Sameroff, 2004; Lewinsohn, Rohde, Seeley, & Fischer, 1993) and antisocial behavior (Barnow, Lucht, & Freyberger, 2005; Moffitt, 1993) show a significant increase in both prevalence and incidence during early adolescence. Moreover, various...

Western Australian general practitioners' views on psychologists and the determinants of patient referral: an exploratory study.
General practitioners (GPs) in Australia typically do not refer clients to mental health care providers. Few systematic and referenced studies of the reasons for this lack of collaboration have been identified. The current research addresses this gap by investigating GPs' views on psychologists and the factors that determine patient...

Maternal expectations: do they match experience?
Abstract This qualitative research project aimed to explore maternal expectations toward motherhood and compare these to actual experience, in order to identify where expectations were not being met and inform the improvement of services. The project involved two focus groups involving a midwife, health visitors,...

Doing mental healthcare right the first time: employers are paying more attention to the impact mental illness can have on the bottom line, but determining the causes of many such illnesses merits a more muscular approach.
[ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] Employee mental health affects the bottom line and the culprits are many. Stress disability rates have been growing and mental health is also the leading cause of prolonged disability in people with a physical illness. Productivity, retention and medical care utilization are all affected by...

Enhancing psychosocial care for people with cancer in rural communities: what can remote counselling offer?
Abstract Rural cancer patients are often disadvantaged in access to psychological services. We reviewed remote counselling research for psychological support using telephone, videoconferencing, and the Internet as a potential solution. Telephone counselling is the most extensively researched, while there are encouraging findings in emerging research about videoconferencing...

Pregnancy alone not associated with increased risk of mental disorders.
Pregnancy alone does not appear to be associated with an increased risk of most mental disorders, a survey has found. Pregnancy and the postpartum period are widely considered to be times of increased vulnerability to psychiatric disorders, and these disorders during pregnancy are associated with poor maternal...