Postpartum depression (PPD) is a serious mental helath condition referring to depressive episodes beginning after childbirth. Recognizing the importance of depression occurring both in pregnancy and postpartum, currently, the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual for Mental disorders-Fifth Edition classifies a depression with a peripartum onset beginning during pregnancy or within the first four weeks after birth. This book provides new research on the prevalence, risk factors and outcomes that postpartum depression has on women after childbirth.-- Preface of book.

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Self-compassion and perinatal depression -- Mindfulness and perinatal depression -- Prevalence and incidence of postpartum major depression (DSM-5) in Portuguese women -- Risk factors for postpartum depression: a dimensional and categorical approach -- Suicidality and clinical morbidity in pregnancy: the role of lifetime suicidal behaviors.