The Effectiveness of Postpartum Depression Tools and Maternal Education Beyond the Blues: The Effectiveness of Postpartum Depression Tools and Maternal Education The birth of a baby can trigger a vast array of powerful emotions: from joy to fear and excitement to anxiety. But it can also result in something that most new mothers don’t expect – post partum depression (PPD). According to the American Psychological Association, (2014), PPD is a moderate to severe depression that may occur soon after…
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Rye” of a theme of depression. In the story “Catcher in the Rye”, by J.D Salinger it examines the topic of depression. He notes that the main character Holden suffers with depression, but does not realize it till his parents get him the help. Ultimately what Salinger examines Holden is depressed. Depression is caused by many things. Depression can be caused by trauma caused by a death from someone close to them, a significant illness or any form of abuse can develope the depression, however trauma…
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a lot of information about the work Sarah S. Brown has done with the Campaign. Sarah Brown is the director of National Campaign to prevent teen pregnancy. This article explains why the campaign was formed, what strategies are in use, as well as what seems to be working. This article explains that being abstinent form sex is the best form of prevention in teen pregnancy. On the Detailed record this article shows it is peered reviewed. Dean, Malcolm. Targeting teenage single mothers. The Lancet,…
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Depression 9/21/2009 Depression Is The New Black It's a Friday morning in early August. The summer was ending in only a few weeks, and you were getting all you could out of it. This was the summer before your senior year, and you went out every night. That’s why when the phone started ringing; you only looked at the clock and groaned: eight a.m. There’s no WAY you were going to answer that. And then the incessant ringing stopped. You start to drift back to sleep when the ringing starts again…
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girl’s struggles throughout her pregnancy. Charlie, the pregnant teen, constantly hears her baby in her stomach talk to her. The voice she hears may not actually be her baby. In fact it can actually just be Charlie’s mind with conflicting thoughts, and in this case the author effectively separates these conflicting thoughts by giving the unborn baby a sense of knowledge and different bias. Unlike many, Charlie is one of the pregnant teens trying stay in school during her pregnancy to graduate from high…
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ages of 14 to 19 are not fully experiencing their childhood. Therefore, promoting teen pregnancy prevention is necessary and essential to our society. The scholarly articles I have chosen for this assignment is title “It drives us to do it”: pregnant adolescents identify drivers for sexual risk by King Jones. The article focuses on risk factors that lead to sexual activity in teens. The case study focuses on teen factors that lead to adolescent sexual activity. The article provides information…
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Conception, Pregnancy and Childbirth Deciding Whether or Not to Have a Child Choosing Not to Have a Child Over 4 million (6.6%) American women of childbearing age “Childless by choice” or “child-free” Viewed as violation of expectations in child-oriented society DINKs: face subtle forms of discrimination & disapproval. History and Childless Marriages Women without children called “barren” Men and their families would often reject, punish, or murder wives who did not produce children.…
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NUTRITION THROUGHOUT YOUR LIFE SCI/241 LEIGH ANN ROBBINS-VIRTUE What does nutrition mean to you: Nutrition is the basic nutrients needed for you body to be able to function properly. Nutrition is what keeps every living thing alive. Throughout a humans life, our nutritional needs will change drastically. NUTRIENT “A nutrient is anything that nourishes a living being. We humans get our nutrients from what we eat, plants get theirs from the soil. While the best nutrients are natural, we can also…
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Thyroid Gland Activity Hypothyroidism v. Hyperthyroidism Celine Nicole Saenz Coronado High School February 10th, 2015 Thyroid Gland Activity Hypothyroidism v. Hyperthyroidism Both over-activity and under activity of the thyroid gland can cause severe metabolic disturbances. Hypothyroid disorders may result from some thyroid gland defect or secondarily from inadequate TSH or TH release. Hyperthyroid disorders mar result in autoimmune diseases. Though each involve the thyroid gland, the two are…
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seeking help for any potential mental health condition, the fact that mood disorders may be overlooked in pregnancy and medical conditions with similar symptoms, and diagnosis in adolescents may be difficult because many adults may expect moodiness in teens. Also children may be difficult to diagnose because of confusion with attention deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD), which may also exist alongside mood disorders, and ADHD and mood disorders must be identified separately because they require different…
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