Elisabeth Wright, Jovana Martinovic, Diane de Camps Meschino, Lucy C Barker, Diane A Philipp, Aliza Israel, Neesha Hussain-Shamsy, Geetha Mukerji, Vivienne Wang, Antara Chatterjee, Simone N Vigod
OBJECTIVES: Mothers with a history of adverse childhood experiences (ACE) are at elevated risk for postpartum mental illness and impairment in the mother-infant relationship. Interventions attending to maternal-infant interactions may improve outcomes for these parents and their children, but barriers to accessing in-person postpartum care limit uptake. We adapted a postpartum psychotherapy group for mothers with mental illness (e.g., mood, anxiety, trauma-related disorders) and ACE for live video-based delivery, and evaluated feasibility, acceptability, and preliminary efficacy in an open-label pilot study...
December 18, 2023: BMC Psychiatry