Relationship-Based Intervention for Post-Partum Depression
A Brief Relationship-Based Intervention for Post-Partum Depression; Effects on Mother's Hormones, Depression and Parenting and on Infant Social-Emotional Development
Interdisciplinary Center Herzliya
100 participants
May 8, 2019
INTERVENTIONAL
Conditions
Summary
A short term dyadic psychotherapy intervention for mothers with Post-Partum depression and their babies in the first year of life was developed. The investigators believe that following dyadic intervention mothers will show improvement in depressive symptoms, the quality of the mother-child relationship will improve, and maternal and infant's oxytocin levels will rise.
Eligibility
Inclusion Criteria2
- women diagnosed with Post-Partum depression, major or minor, according to the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders, 5th version (DSM-5)
- months after birth of one baby
Exclusion Criteria4
- Mothers of twins
- Mothers of premature babies
- Comorbidity of psychopathology, women who have severe personality disorder or other psychiatric diagnose, besides depression or anxiety
- Women or babies who suffer from severe medical condition, such as developmental problems for the baby or disability.
Interventions
Mothers and infants will be treated with dyadic psychotherapy focused on interactions, emphasizing eye contact, body language, empathy, and social reciprocity. Dyadic psychotherapy will be administered one time a week during the 8-week trial period, at the subject's home. Each session, approximately 90 minutes long, will include videotaping mother-infant interaction, watching the last session's interaction as a part of video-feedback technique, and discussing main issues in the mother-infant relationship. In addition, each session will begin and end with a- 5-minute episode of affectionate touch and gaze synchrony between the mother and her infant. During the whole therapy-trial, the therapist will also use cognitive-behavioral approach to address the mother's perception of her infant and of herself as a mother.
Mothers will receive a therapy in their homes for 8 weeks, 1.5 hours for each session by a therapist arriving at their home. Each session will address a different developmental aspects of the baby (feeding, movement, social-emotional development etc.). Therapist will ask the mother about her baby, will give information about developmental needs and expectations and will help mother to enrich child's development and deal will potential problems
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NCT04193462