Monday, January 10, 2022, 11:30 AM – 1 PM EST

Depression in Women during Pregnancy and the Postpartum

Sherryl Goodman, PhD -- Samuel Candler Dobbs Professor of Psychology

Many of us know someone who was depressed during pregnancy or after her baby was born. And some of us have experienced depression ourselves—in those circumstances or otherwise.  What do we mean by “depression”?  Why be concerned about it, particularly when it occurs among women who are pregnant or parenting infants?  And what can we do about it? Few are better equipped to address this topic and answer questions such as these than Sherryl Goodman. Her decades of research, grounded in developmental psychopathology, have encompassed study of mechanisms by which mothers with depression transmit psychopathology to their children, preventing or treating depression in women, and how children might benefit from prevention or treatment of their mothers’ depression