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Essential Reads: Screening for Anxiety Disorders During Pregnancy and the Postpartum Period

MGH Center for Women's Mental Health

Anxiety symptoms are common during pregnancy and the postpartum period. According to a recent meta-analysis from Fawcett and colleagues, about one out of every five women has at least one type of anxiety disorder during pregnancy or the postpartum period.

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How Pretend Play Helps Children Build Skills

Child Mind Intitute

Keough, PhD Psychologist, Anxiety Disorders Center Child Mind Institute Pretend play, also known as imaginative play, includes a range of imaginative behaviors and actions that become more complex over early childhood (Lillard et al., 2015; Lindsey & Colwell, 2013). By Kathryn L. Symbolic play emerges around age three.

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Default Depression—How We Now Interpret Distress as Mental Illness

Mad in America

R egardless of the context and cause, distress is increasingly interpreted and diagnosed as a mental illnesscommonly clinical depression and/or anxiety disorder. This process of medicalisation is now all too often a default response to distress and happens on a large scale.