Paternal depression during pregnancy and postpartum: An international Delphi study.

Background: Fathers are at risk for depression during a mother's gestation and postpartum. Assessment, detection, and treatment are hampered by the lack of consensus on this issue. The purpose of this study was to reach expert consensus through the Delphi method on the defining factors of depression in peripartum fathers.

Narrative-informed medical family therapy: using narrative therapy practices in brief medical encounters.

Effective mental health practice in a medical context is a collaborative "both/and" relationship between therapists, patients, and health care team collaborators. The biomedical model that is most often used in health care is an important piece of a patient's healing, and narrative therapy brings an excellent patient and family centered addition to this framework. Using this model, behavioral health therapists can help patients understand how their experiences of illness may be shaped by larger social discourses and how they may then choose which of these messages about illness fit for them and which do not.

Parents in fragile families: the influence of parental engagement on emergency care use in children with asthma.

Current research focused on stress responsive illnesses such as asthma has identified a crucial role for families in the progression and maintenance of stress responsive illnesses. What is currently not clear is the differential effect of maternal versus paternal engagement in the management of pediatric asthma. This study explores whether or not mother, father, or the combined engagement has an effect on the management of pediatric asthma.