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Motherhood, Mental Illness and Recovery

Stories of Hope

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  • © 2014

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Editors:
  1. Nikole Benders-Hadi

    1. Orangeburg Service Center Bldg 57, 1st Floor, Rockland Psychiatric Center, Orangeburg, USA

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  2. Mary E. Barber

    1. Rockland Psychiatric Center, Orangeburg, USA

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  • Describes current research and services available to mothers with serious mental illness
  • Presents clients’ personal accounts of their parenting experiences and issues such as stigma, fears and discrimination
  • Provides clinicians with information that can be used to help patients
  • Promotes further research, improved services and the message of mental illness recovery
  • Includes supplementary material: sn.pub/extras

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Table of contents (46 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-xiv
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  2. Working With Mothers and Children

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 1-1
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    2. Supporting Mothers Living with Mental Illnesses in Recovery

      • Joanne Nicholson
      Pages 3-17

    3. Modes of Experience and Understanding: Parenting Assessment for Mothers with Serious Mental Illness and Child Protective Service Involvement

      • Teresa Ostler
      Pages 19-31

    4. When Your Patient Has Children: How the Clinician Can Support Good Parenting

      • Alison Heru
      Pages 33-44

    5. Mothers Are Everywhere: Finding Stories of Motherhood in a State Psychiatric Hospital

      • Nikole Benders-Hadi
      Pages 45-52

    6. Pregnancy and the Perinatal Period

      • Laura M. Polania
      Pages 53-71

    7. Substance Use Disorders and Motherhood

      • Abigail J. Herron, Melodie Isgro
      Pages 73-87

    8. Legal Issues Regarding Children

      • Nancy S. Erickson
      Pages 89-108

    9. LGBT Mothers

      • Mary E. Barber, Eric Yarbrough
      Pages 109-117

  3. Voices of Mothers: The Journey

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 119-119
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    2. Once Upon A Time I Was Silent

      • Anita Thomas
      Pages 121-125

    3. Moving Out of Darkness

      • Angela D. Burling
      Pages 127-133

    4. As My Heart Beats

      • Suzanne DuBois
      Pages 135-138

    5. Don’t Give Up

      • Taressa Ingle
      Pages 139-142

    6. Pregnant on the Psychiatric Unit: One Woman’s Journey Through the State Mental Health System and into Motherhood

      • Amanda Standridge, Ellen Darling
      Pages 143-146

    7. There and Back Again

      • Maura K.
      Pages 147-150

    8. Be True to Yourself

      • Amanda Stettenbenz
      Pages 151-154

    9. Second Chance Motherhood

      • Jocelyn O’Connor
      Pages 155-159

    10. Love Endures Time

      • Jessica Melchick
      Pages 161-161
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About this book

Despite the importance of regaining social roles during recovery from mental illness, the intersection between motherhood and serious mental illness is often overlooked. This book aims to rectify that neglect. A series of introductory chapters describing current research and services available to mothers with serious mental illness are followed by personal accounts of clients reflecting on their parenting experiences. One goal of the book is to provide clinicians with information that they can use to help patients struggling with questions and barriers in their attempts to parent. The inclusion of personal accounts of mothers on issues such as stigma, fears and discrimination in the context of parenting with a mental illness is intended to promote the message of mental illness recovery to a larger audience as well. Finally, it is hoped that this handbook will help inspire more research on mothers with mental illness and the creation of more services tailored to their needs.

Reviews

From the book reviews:

“This book about motherhood and mental illness is written effectively and uniquely by researchers, clinicians, and mothers who are undergoing treatment. … While this book may be used by those who are working in the area of maternal mental health, women who are consumers of mental healthcare as well as their advocates may benefit from the discussions. … This rich collection of useful information addresses issues important for those caring for mothers with mental health problems.” (Sheila Lahijani, Doody’s Book Reviews, January, 2015)

Editors and Affiliations

  • Orangeburg Service Center Bldg 57, 1st Floor, Rockland Psychiatric Center, Orangeburg, USA

    Nikole Benders-Hadi

  • Rockland Psychiatric Center, Orangeburg, USA

    Mary E. Barber

Bibliographic Information

  • Book Title: Motherhood, Mental Illness and Recovery

  • Book Subtitle: Stories of Hope

  • Editors: Nikole Benders-Hadi, Mary E. Barber

  • DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-01318-3

  • Publisher: Springer Cham

  • eBook Packages: Medicine, Medicine (R0)

  • Copyright Information: Springer International Publishing Switzerland 2014

  • Softcover ISBN: 978-3-319-01317-6Published: 18 August 2014

  • eBook ISBN: 978-3-319-01318-3Published: 01 August 2014

  • Edition Number: 1

  • Number of Pages: XIV, 351

  • Topics: Psychiatry, Clinical Psychology, Medicine/Public Health, general, Psychoanalysis

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