Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act, maternal and child health, postpartum depression, perinatal mood disorders, social work education
Abstract
The Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act (ACA) mandates ongoing research on postpartum depression; however, very little research has been published in social work journals and in advanced-level textbooks on this topic. This article describes the problem of postpartum depression and argues that social work educators and researchers must pay greater attention to this issue in light of the ACA mandates, so that social workers can provide effective services to postpartum mothers and their children. The Council on Social Work Education’s recently published Educational Policy and Accreditation Standards are considered while making curriculum recommendations on postpartum depression for social work educators.
Author Biographies
Robert H. Keefe, University at Buffalo
State University of New York
Associate Professor School of Social Work
Carol Brownstein-Evans, Greater Rochester Collaborative MSW Program
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Nazareth College
Associate Professor, Greater Rochester Collaborative MSW Program.
Sandra D. Lane, Syracuse University
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Upstate Medical University
Laura J. and L. Douglas Meredith Professor Professor of Public Health and Professor of Anthropology.
D. Bruce Carter, Syracuse University
Associate Professor, Department of Psychology and Department of Child & Family Studies.
Rebecca S. Rouland Polmanteer, University at Buffalo, State University of New York
