MbShea@PWP@English@UMCP

Audience: This seminar is directed towards anyone interested in women’s health, perhaps in being an OB/GYN as I am. Still, anyone can benefit from this seminar to reverse the pressure that society places on soon to be mothers to exclusively breastfeed, not accept an epidural, etc.


Context: More and more today, pregnant women are held exclusively responsible for their children’s health and well-being. Breastfeeding, especially, is being pitched by doctors, activists, and moms alike as the best form of feeding. The result being shame and pressure placed upon mothers who have lactation issues and need to use formula. This seminar will analyze different cross-sectional studies which have looked at the association between postpartum depression and motherhood self efficacy.


Purpose: The purpose of this seminar is to inform the audience about how our society has moved towards advocating for a one track approach to pregnancy and motherhood and this has in turn created self efficacy beliefs for soon to be mothers, not all of whom, can physically uphold those expectations. When those expectations cannot be met, depressed moods have been associated.


Document type: Seminar, analyzing different correlational studies

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This can work for either the medical seminar paper, say as part of a psychology/psychiatry rotation. The other option is a clinical psychology grad school seminar paper. What are you thinking about?