From Pregnancy to Postpartum: When Mental Health and Wellbeing Are Threatened
A special issue of International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health (ISSN 1660-4601). This special issue belongs to the section "Mental Health".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: closed (30 September 2022) | Viewed by 56790
Special Issue Editors
Interests: homo/lesbo/bi/trans-phobia; parenthood; perinatal mental health; twinship; intimate partner violence; gender violence; same sex intimate partner violence; same sex parenting; sexual minorities; minorities stress; attachment
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Dear Colleagues,
The transition to parenthood, from pregnancy to postpartum, is a time of neurobiological, relational, and psychological changes for both parents that can impact their individual or collective psychological wellbeing in different ways. In line with the WHO's mental health action plan (2019–2023), the current Special Issue aims at demonstrating the relevance of perinatal health for parents and children for the wellness of the whole community. Therefore, theoretical and empirical evidence is needed to support the utility of preventive and intervention programs during the pre- and postpartum periods. Indeed, parenthood appears difficult and complex even when it comes as a natural event, and it becomes even more problematic when objective and emotional difficulties arise. The study of parental mental health issues in the pre- and postpartum periods, such as depression, anxiety, and parental stress, and their links to other relevant factors including couple relationship, attachment styles, infants’ temperament, and neurobiological measures, highlights the need to think about models and methodologies that can be adapted to different contexts, particularly today’s new family configurations.
This Special Issue aims to collect scientific and multidisciplinary contributions on the wellbeing of parents and their children from pregnancy to postpartum. We encourage contributions from a variety of areas including original qualitative and quantitative articles, reviews, and meta-analyses focused on parental mental health and correlated constructs and variables. We also encourage contributions on preventive and intervention models during pregnancy and the postpartum period to improve the parents’ and their children’s wellbeing.
Prof. Dr. Luca Rollè
Prof. Dr. Laura Vismara
Guest Editors
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Keywords
- pre- and postnatal depression
- mother and father wellbeing
- risk and protective factors
- perinatal psychopathology
- couple relationship and parenthood
- parenting stress
- parents wellbeing
- fear of childbirth
- pregnancy
- attachment style and wellbeing
- parents’ mental health
- perinatal mental health
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