Michael O'Hara

ichael  O'Hara , Professor & Starch Faculty Fellow
Ph.D., University of Pittsburgh, 1980

Office: 
E229 SSH (Phone: 319-335-2460)
Fax:  319-335-0191
Email:  mike-ohara@uiowa.edu

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Research Interests

Postpartum and pregnancy depression
Psychotherapy for depression particularly in the postpartum period
Impact of maternal depression on children
Mental health services research
Women's reproductive health
 
 
Selected Publications
 
  • O’Hara, M. W., Stuart, S., Gorman, L. L., & Wenzel, A. (2000). Efficacy of Interpersonal Psychotherapy for postpartum depression. Archives of General Psychiatry, 57, 1039-1045
  • Marks, M. N., O’Hara, M. W., Glangeaud-Freudenthal, N., Guedeney, N., Klier, C. M., Figueiredo, B., Benvenuti, P., & Cox, J. L. (Eds.), (2004). Transcultural Study of Postnatal Depression (TCS-PND): Development and testing of harmonized research methods. British Journal of Psychiatry, 184, (suppl. 46)
  • Nylen, K. J., Moran, T. E., Franklin, C. L., & O’Hara, M. W. (2006). Maternal depression: A review of relevant treatment approaches for mothers and infants. Infant Mental Health Journal, 27, 327-343.
  • Forman, D, O’Hara, M. W., Stuart, S., Gorman, L., Larsen, K. & Coy, K. C. (2007). Effective treatment for postpartum depression is not sufficient to improve the developing mother-child relationship. Development and Psychopathology, 19, 585-602.

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