Prevention Program for Postpartum OCD
A new report describes a program that helps to reduce anxiety and obsessive compulsive disorder that may accompany childbirth. Postpartum obsessive compulsive symptoms, can be devastating to mothers and their families.
Many women experiencing these difficulties are not getting the services they need because they don’t even know that what they are experiencing has a label and can be helped.
In response to this need, researchers from the University of Miami developed a cognitive behavioral program to prevent of postpartum obsessive compulsive symptoms.
Their findings are reported online by the Journal of Psychiatric Research.
