Postnatal depression. Facilitating peer group support.
Health visitors and lay people have been working together in Maidenhead to support women suffering from postnatal illness. Alison Jones, Tricia Watts and Sybil Romain describe how the group supplements medical and psychiatric services, by tackling the isolation women with postnatal depression can feel, and helping them through until the illness ends.
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D003152:Community Health Nursing; D003866:Depressive Disorder / Q000451:nursing*; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D011247:Pregnancy; D011644:Puerperal Disorders / Q000451:nursing*; D012657:Self-Help Groups / Q000458:organization & administration*