Perinatal Behavioral Health Books
Advocacy
Shim, MD, MPH, R. S., & Vinson, MD, S. Y. (Eds.). (2021). Social (In)Justice and Mental Health. American Psychiatric Association Publishing.
Susan Benjamin Feingold, & Lewis, B. M. (2020). Advocating for women with postpartum mental illness. A guide to changing the law and the national climate. Rowman & Littlefield Publ.
Fathers
Cox, C. (2019). From Love to Loss: A NICU Odyssey, Independently Published.
Farley, K., & Dicola, D. (2012). Grieving dads : to the brink and back. Grieving Dads Llc.
Gouveia, A., & Mj Gouveia. (2021). Men and miscarriage : a dad’s guide to grief, relationships, and healing after loss. Skyhorse Publishing.
Singley, D. B., & Honickman, J. (2020). Parental Mental Health: Factoring in Fathers. Independently Published.
Perinatal Mental Health
Cox, MD, E. (2021). WOMEN’S MOOD DISORDERS : a clinician’s guide to perinatal psychiatry. Springer Nature.
Hutner, L. A., Catapano, L. A., Nagle-Yang, S. M., Williams, K. E., Osborne, L. M., & American Psychiatric Association Publishing. (2022). Textbook of women’s reproductive mental health. American Psychiatric Association Publishing.
Kleiman, K. R., & Raskin, V. D. (1994). This isn’t what I expected : recognizing and recovering from depression and anxiety after childbirth. Bantam Books.
Kleiman, K. R., Wenzel, A., Waller, H., & Mandel, A. (2020). Dropping the baby and other scary thoughts : breaking the cycle of unwanted thoughts in parenthood. Routledge.
Warren, B., & Beth Creager Berger. (2022). The pregnancy and postpartum mood workbook : the guide to surviving your emotions when having a baby. Routledge.
Watson, S. (2020). POSTPARTUM DEPRESSION AND ANXIETY : the definitive survival and recovery approach. Trigger Press.
Wenzel, A. (Ed.). (2016). The Oxford Handbook of Perinatal Psychology. Oxford University Press.
Pregnancy Loss
Heustis, J., Jenkins, M., & Wolfelt, A. (2005). Companioning at a time of perinatal loss : a guide for nurses, physicians, social workers, chaplains, and other bedside caregivers. Companion.
Kittel, K. (2014). Breathe : a memoir of motherhood, grief, and family conflict. She Writes Press.
Wenzel, A. (2014). Coping with infertility, miscarriage, and neonatal loss : finding perspective and creating meaning. American Psychological Association.
Special Populations
Goldberg, A. E. (2010). Lesbian and gay parents and their children: Research on the family life cycle. Washington American Psychological Association.
Smith, S., & Lockhart, Z. (2021). Mama bear : one black mother’s fight for her child’s life and her own. Harper, An Imprint Of HarperCollins Publishers.
Trauma
Cheryl Tatano Beck, Driscoll, J., & Watson, S. (2013). Traumatic childbirth. Routledge.
Seng, J., & Taylor, J. (2015). Trauma informed care in the perinatal period. Dunedin.
Simkin, P., Klaus, P. H., & E Sue Blume. (2004). When survivors give birth : understanding and healing the effects of early sexual abuse on childbearing women. Classic Day Publishing.
