Perinatal Mental Health The Edinburgh Postnatal Depression Scale (EPDS) Manual (2nd edn)

The Edinburgh Postnatal Depression Scale (EPDS) is aquestionnaire and was designed as a simple means of screening forpostnatal depression in health care settings. The scale is now inuse around the world and this book is a practical guide to usingthe scale in clinical practice, its origins and developmentbackground. This second edition has been revised and contains muchadvice based on years of experience.All chapters and references have been updatedand the chapters on screening and counselling have beenconsiderably revised, the evidence base on interventions forperinatal depression is provided, plus details of innovativemethods such as internet-based therapy. The book includes the EPDSquestionnaire itself in 58 other languages, plus a discussion of thequestionnaire’s cultural validity.The scale can also be used by researchers seeking information onfactors which influence the emotional well-being of new mothers andtheir families and guidance is also given on use of the scale inresearch settings.The book will be useful for psychologists, psychiatrists, healthvisitors, midwives, family doctors, obstetricians and communitypsychiatric nurses, plus researchers in perinatal health.