About the Contributors

Marie-Paule Austin is the chair of Perinatal and Women's Mental Health at the University of New South Wales; director at St John of God Health Care Mother-Baby Unit; and psychiatrist at the Royal Hospital for Women, Sydney. Professor Austin has long been at the forefront of research into models of universal psychosocial assessment in the perinatal period, and both her clinical and population-based researches have been instrumental in shaping the development of policy and practice in perinatal mental health across Australia.

Susan Ayers is a professor in the Centre for Maternal and Child Health Research at City University London and visiting professor at the University of Sussex, United Kingdom. Susan's research focuses on women's psychological well-being and mental health during pregnancy and after birth. Susan is an author of Psychology for Medicine (2011) and editor of the Cambridge Handbook of Psychology, Health and Medicine, 2nd Ed. (2007). She was awarded the Annual Lecturer Prize by the Society for Reproductive and Infant Psychology in 2012.

Susan L. Bertram, BSN RN MSN, is trained as a psychiatric clinical nurse specialist. She has worked as a lead study coordinator for the past 20 years with Dr. Barbara Yawn in the Olmsted Medical Center, Department of Research. She served as the lead coordinator and project manager for the recently completed TRIPPD 5-year trial assessing the outcomes of implementing postnatal depression screening, diagnosis, and management in family medicine offices.

William V. Bobo, MD MPH, is a psychiatrist and researcher, associate professor of psychiatry at the Mayo Medical School, and medical director of the Mayo Clinic Mood Program. His research is focused on the effectiveness, safety, and clinical use of treatments for severe mood disorders. Dr. Bobo has special interest in the perinatal management of these disorders and use of psychotropic medications during pregnancy.

Angela Bowen, RN, PhD, is an associate professor in the College of Nursing and the Department of Psychiatry at the University of Saskatchewan. Recent research includes a longitudinal study and epidemiological study of antenatal depression in progress, evaluation of maternal mental health programs, and policy development. She is the lead of the Maternal Mental Health Strategy group, which developed and is implementing policy recommendations to address antenatal and postpartum depression (PPD) in Saskatchewan, Canada.

Anne Buist, MBBS, MMed, MD, FRANZCP, is the professor/director of Women's Mental Health at the University of Melbourne and Austin Health and has clinical and research experience in perinatal mental illness, its association with childhood abuse, and long-term outcomes. She led the beyondblue Postnatal Depression Program that resulted in screening implementation throughout Australia.

Rose Coates is a doctoral researcher in the School of Psychology, University of Sussex, United Kingdom. Her research is on optimal ways of conceptualizing and screening for postnatal psychological distress such as anxiety, depression, and posttraumatic stress following birth. She has published on anxiety measurement, symptoms of perinatal distress, and intervention.

Roch Cantwell is a consultant perinatal psychiatrist with Greater Glasgow and Clyde Health Board, United Kingdom, and honorary senior clinical lecturer at Glasgow University. He is past chair of the RCPsych Perinatal Section and lead psychiatric assessor for the UK Confidential Enquiries into Maternal Deaths. He chaired the SIGN Perinatal Mood Disorders Guideline Development Group and was joint author of the RCOG Good Practice Guideline on Mental Health Issues in Pregnancy.

Peter Cooper is a research professor in psychopathology at the University of Reading and codirector, with Lynne Murray, of the Winnicott Research Unit. He is also professor extraordinaire at Stellenbosch University in South Africa. He has conducted epidemiological, experimental, longitudinal, and intervention research in a range of areas, including eating disorders, depression, and child anxiety. His current work, in collaboration with Lynne Murray, principally concerns the development and evaluation of early interventions to improve child outcomes in the developing world. He is the editor of the Constable & Robinson Overcoming series of self-help books for psychological disorders.

Jan Cubison is a clinical service manager, Sheffield Perinatal Mental Health Service. Jan provided the introductory day health visitor training for the PoNDER trial. Research outputs include screening for postnatal depression in primary care, in Screening for Perinatal Depression (eds C. Henshaw and S. Elliott, 2005), and Thoughts of infanticide (Marcé International Conference, September 2006). Expert advisory work includes independent inquiry on Daksha Emson (2003); NICE Guidelines, Pregnancy and complex social factors (2010); Service user experience in adult mental health (2011); and NHS England, Clinical Reference Group for specialized perinatal mental health services (current).

Dr. Pim Cuijpers is a professor of clinical psychology at the VU University Amsterdam (the Netherlands) and head of the Department of Clinical Psychology. Since 2009, he has published more than 475 papers, chapters, reports, and professional publications, including more than 300 papers in peer-reviewed international scientific journals.

Dr. Brian Danaher is a senior research scientist at Oregon Research Institute (Eugene, OR, United States). Recent grant-funded research projects and publications have focused on development and evaluation of technology-delivered behavioral interventions (including use of web and mobile phone methods) for treatment of tobacco and postnatal depression.

Cindy-Lee Dennis is a professor of nursing and psychiatry at the University of Toronto and a senior scientist at Women's College Research Institute. She simultaneously holds the Canada Research Chair in Perinatal Community Health and the Shirley Brown Chair in Women's Mental Health Research. She has published widely in the area of perinatal depression and has completed five Cochrane systematic reviews. Her research focuses on evaluating telephone-based interventions for the prevention and treatment of PPD.

Arianna Di Florio is a clinical research fellow at the Department of Psychological Medicine and Clinical Neurosciences at Cardiff University (United Kingdom). After obtaining her undergraduate qualification in medicine at the University of Padua (Italy), she specialized in psychiatry. She completed her PhD at Cardiff University with a thesis on bipolar disorder in pregnancy and postpartum. She has recently been awarded a Marie Curie International Outgoing Fellowship to visit the Center for Women's Mood Disorders at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill (United States), where she will develop predictive models for postnatal depression and psychosis.

Dr. Tara Donker is a research fellow at the Black Dog Institute, University of New South Wales, Australia. Her research areas include online screening, early intervention, and prevention of depression, anxiety, and suicide, with a special interest in e-mental health.

Jennifer Ericksen is a clinical psychologist and manager of Perinatal Mental Health Services and Training, Parent-Infant Research Institute, Austin Health. The institute is a large treatment center for perinatal depression and anxiety specializing in developing and evaluating clinical interventions. She also provides professional development sessions to maternal and child health nurses, psychologists, general practitioners and midwives. She has contributed to many intervention programs and academic publications.

Jonathan Evans is a senior lecturer, University of Bristol, Bristol, UK, and honorary consultant psychiatrist. His research has focused on parental depression and consequences for offspring particularly using data from the Avon Longitudinal Study of Parents and Children. He has a particular interest in identifying and treating depression during pregnancy and has conducted one of the few randomized trials for antenatal depression.

Pasco Fearon is a professor of developmental psychopathology at University College London (UCL) and joint director of UCL's doctoral training program in clinical psychology. He is a developmental and clinical psychologist, and his research focuses on the role of relationships in early child development. His work integrates social and biological perspectives, particularly the role of parenting and attachment on the one hand and genetics and physiology on the other.

Jane Fisher is a professor of women's health and the director of the Jean Hailes Research Unit in the School of Public Health and Preventive Medicine at Monash University. She is an academic clinical and health psychologist with long-standing interests in public health perspectives on the links between women's reproductive health and mental health including during pregnancy, birth, and the postpartum period. She has been consultant clinical psychologist to Masada Private Hospital Mother-Baby Unit since 1996.

Richard Fletcher, PhD, is a senior lecturer in the Family Action Centre, Faculty of Health, the University of Newcastle, NSW, and convenor of the Australian Fatherhood Research Network. He is currently researching the effects of...