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TV News Clip: The “Bringing Postpartum Depression Out of the Shadows Act” Passes the House

Update 12/8/16, 9:00am: The bill passed the Senate and Obama is expected to sign within two weeks!

KSWB Fox5 San Diego invited me back yesterday to talk […]

By Abigail Burd|2019-11-18T14:30:35-08:00December 6th, 2016|Categories: Blog, Maternal Mental Health|Tags: fox5, media, policy, postpartum depression, ppd, therapy for postpartum depression, tv appearance, video|0 Comments

Social Change on a Policy Level is Needed to Ease Pressures on New Moms and Dads

The American Sociological Association recently released a paper: “Nature and Culture: Lay Accounts of Perinatal Mental Health Disorders.” In it, Carrie Wendel-Hummell, a University of Kansas doctoral candidate in sociology, […]

By Abigail Burd|2019-11-18T14:30:58-08:00August 24th, 2014|Categories: Blog, Maternal Mental Health|Tags: new fathers, perinatal mentl health, peripartum mental health, policy|0 Comments

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