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Clinical Pearls In Perinatal Mental Health
Clinical Pearls in Perinatal Mental Health was developed during the Symposium
on The Interface between Mental Health and Obstetrics, Jan 2013
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Other Publications
Howard LM, Wilson CA, Chandra PS. Intimate partner violence and mental health: lessons from the
COVID-19 pandemic. World Psychiatry. 2022 Jun;21(2):311-313. doi: 10.1002/wps.20976. PMID:
35524625; PMCID: PMC9077615.
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9077615/
Kalra, H., Tran, T., Romero, L., Chandra, P., & Fisher, J. (2022). Burden of severe maternal peripartum
mental disorders in low-and middle-income countries: a systematic review. Archives of Women's Mental
Health, 25(2), 267-275.
https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/35061103/
Bachani, Sumitra, Sushree Monika Sahoo, Sachin Nagendrappa, Anjali Dabral, and Prabha Chandra.
"Anxiety and depression among women with COVID-19 infection during childbirth—Experience from a
tertiary care academic center." AJOG global reports 2, no. 1 (2022): 100033.
https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/34841377/
Raghavan, Archana, Veena A. Satyanarayana, Jane Fisher, Sundarnag Ganjekar, Monica Shrivastav,
Sarita Anand, Vani Sethi, and Prabha S. Chandra. "Gender Transformative Interventions for Perinatal
Mental Health in Low and Middle Income Countries—A Scoping Review." International Journal of
Environmental Research and Public Health 19, no. 19 (2022): 12357.
https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/36231655/
Narayan, Shweta, M. Thomas Kishore, Veena Satyanarayana, Binukumar Bhaskarapillai, Geetha Desai,
and Prabha Chandra. "Bonding and Infants’ Development and Quality of Life: A Study Among Mothers
with Severe Mental Illnesses in Remission." Indian Journal of Psychological Medicine 45, no. 3 (2023):
250-256.
https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/37152397/
Shrivastav, M., Vasudeva, S., Gulati, T., Sahu, B., Saraswat, A., Abraham, N.R., Anand, S., Xaxa, R.S.,
Minj, J., Prajapati, M. and Chandra, P.S., 2022. The mental health of adolescent girls from a tribal region
of Central Rural India during the COVID-19 pandemic–A cross-sectional study to determine the role of
gender disadvantage. Journal of Neurosciences in Rural Practice, 13(4), p.669. doi:10.25259/JNRP-
2022-2-3, PMCID: PMC9894325, PMID: 36743760
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9894325/
Nanjundaswamy, Madhuri H., Shayanth Manche Gowda, Sundarnag Ganjekar, Harish Thippeswamy,
Geetha Desai, and Prabha S. Chandra. "Women with mental illness seeking conception counselling at a
specialist perinatal psychiatry service in India." Asian Journal of Psychiatry 78 (2022): 103313.
https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/36356427/
Arasappa, Rashmi, Usha Rani M. Rangaiah, Madhuri H. Nanjundaswamy, Sundarnag Ganjekar,
Shivarama Varambally, and Prabha S. Chandra. "Feasibility and Acceptability of a Joint Mother Infant
Yoga intervention in mothers admitted to an inpatient Mother Baby unit." Asian Journal of Psychiatry
(2023): 103461.
https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/36682156/
Vaiphei, Kimneihat, Shivanand Yaresheemi, Jessica MK Yang, Arianna Di Florio, Prabha S. Chandra,
and Harish Thippeswamy. "Formation of a stakeholder group of women with a lived experience of Post-
partum Psychoses (PP)–Experience from a perinatal psychiatry service in India." Asian Journal of
Psychiatry 84 (2023): 103592.
https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/37079987/
Banerjee, Debanjan, Rashmi Arasappa, Prabha S. Chandra, and Geetha Desai. "“It seemed like my fault
for wanting to become a mother…”—Experiences and perceptions related to motherhood in women with
severe mental illness." Asia‐Pacific Psychiatry 14, no. 4 (2022): e12519.
https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/35899683/
Bharadwaj, Balaji, R. Endumathi, Sonia Parial, and Prabha S. Chandra. "Management of Psychiatric
Disorders during the Perinatal Period." Indian Journal of Psychiatry 64, no. Suppl 2 (2022): S414.
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9122153/
Shah, Aana, Nabagata Das, Rashmi Arasappa, Sundarnag Ganjekar, Harish Thippeswamy, Veena A.
Satyanarayana, M. Thomas Kishore, Kimneihat Vaiphei, and Prabha S. Chandra. "Perinatal
Depression–Case Review in Clinical Grand Rounds." Journal of Psychiatry Spectrum 2, no. 1 (2023): 59-
65.
https://journals.lww.com/jops/Fulltext/2023/01000/Perinatal_Depression___Case_Review_in_Clinical.13.
aspx
Shiva, Lakshmi, Geetha Desai, Veena A. Satyanarayana, Padmalatha Venkataram, and Prabha S.
Chandra. "Somatic Symptoms in the Postpartum Period and Their Association with Childbirth-related Post
Traumatic Stress Disorder and Depression: A Cross-sectional Study." Journal of Psychiatry Spectrum 2,
no. 1 (2023): 41-45.
https://journals.lww.com/jops/Fulltext/2023/01000/Somatic_Symptoms_in_the_Postpartum_Period_and.8.
aspx
Varma, Deepthi Satheesa, Prerna Kukreti, and Prabha S. Chandra. "Social and cultural factors in
perinatal mental health." Oxford Textbook of Social Psychiatry (2022): 433.
https://www.researchgate.net/publication/362915130_Social_and_cultural_factors_in_perinatal_mental_h
ealth
Meera, J., Thanapal Sivakumar, Reddy K. Shanivaram, Devvarta Kumar, and Prabha S. Chandra.
"Facilitators and Barriers Faced by Women With Severe Mental Illness in Gaining Employment-a
Qualitative Study From Rural India." (2023).
https://www.researchsquare.com/article/rs-2663405/latest.pdf
Tikka, Sai Krishna, Harish Thippeswamy, and Prabha S. Chandra. "The Influence of Culture on Perinatal
Mental Health." In Key Topics in Perinatal Mental Health, pp. 287-302. Cham: Springer International
Publishing, 2022.
https://link.springer.com/chapter/10.1007/978-3-030-91832-3_18
Desai, Geetha, and Prabha S. Chandra. "Perinatal Mental Health in India: Time to Deliver!." Journal of
Psychiatry Spectrum 2, no. 1 (2023): 1-3.
https://journals.lww.com/jops/Fulltext/2023/01000/Perinatal_Mental_Health_in_India__Time_to_Deliver_.
1.aspx
Hodsoll, John, Andrew Pickles, Laura Bozicevic, Thirumalai Ananthanpillai Supraja, Jonathan Hill, Prabha
S. Chandra, and Helen Sharp. "A comparison of non-verbal maternal care of male and female infants in
India and the United Kingdom: the parent-infant caregiving touch scale in two cultures." Frontiers in
Psychology (2022): 1098.
https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/35401353/
Kimmel, Mary, Harish Thippeswamy, Astrid Kamperman, H. N. Madhuri, Karen Putnam, Crystal Schiller,
Katie Weinel et al. "Cross-continental collaboration for understanding postpartum major depression with
psychotic features." Frontiers in global women's health 3 (2022).
https://www.frontiersin.org/articles/10.3389/fgwh.2022.996501/full
Arora, Simran, Preethi V. Reddy, Geetha Desai, Muralidharan Kesavan, and Prabha S. Chandra.
"Valproate prescription among reproductive age women with bipolar disorders-Are regulatory methods the
only solution?." Bipolar Disorders (2023).
https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/36843447/
Mehrotra, Kanika, Poornima Bhola, and Geetha Desai. "Contextualizing motherhood in persons with
borderline personality vulnerabilities: cultural adaptation of the Parent Development Interview-Revised in
an Indian context." Research in Psychotherapy: Psychopathology, Process, and Outcome 26, no. 1
(2023).
https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/36786229/
Kanagarajan, Shyam Sundar, Prateek Varshney, Sundarnag Ganjekar, Aruna Muralidhar, and Geetha
Desai. "Psychiatric Comorbidities among Indian Women with Polycystic Ovary Syndrome: A Scoping
Review." Journal of Psychiatry Spectrum 2, no. 1 (2023): 7-15.
https://journals.lww.com/jops/Fulltext/2023/01000/Psychiatric_Comorbidities_among_Indian_Women_wit
h.3.aspx
H. A, Harshitha, Bhavika Vajawat, Debanjan Banerjee, and Geetha Desai. "Perceived Barriers in the
Assessment and Management of Female Sexual Dysfunction: a Survey Among Resident Trainees in
Psychiatry." Academic Psychiatry (2022): 1-5.
https://www.researchgate.net/publication/26277086_Female_sexual_dysfunction_Barriers_to_treatment
Ganjekar, Sundarnag, Sydney Moirangthem, Channaveerachari Naveen Kumar, Geetha Desai, and
Suresh Bada Math. "Reproductive rights of women with intellectual disability in India." Indian Journal of
Medical Ethics (2022).
https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/36519358/
Ganjekar, Sundarnag, and Rajani Parthasarathy. "Mental Health Questionnaire into Mother and Child
Protection Card (Thayi Card): Initiative to Integrate Perinatal Mental Health into Reproductive and Child
Health Program in Karnataka." Journal of Psychiatry Spectrum 2, no. 1 (2023): 66-67.
https://journals.lww.com/jops/Fulltext/2023/01000/Mental_Health_Questionnaire_into_Mother_and_Child.
14.aspx
Shrivastava, Apoorva, M. Manjula, K. John Vijaysagar, and Harish Thippeswamy. "Parenting styles in
borderline personality disorder: A pilot study." Indian Journal of Social Psychiatry 38, no. 1 (2022): 99-
102.
https://journals.lww.com/ijsp/Fulltext/2022/38010/Parenting_Styles_in_Borderline_Personality.17.aspx
Satyanarayana, Veena A., and Srinivasan Krishnamachari. "Integrated cognitive‐behavioral intervention
reduced alcohol use and perpetration of intimate partner violence in a man with alcohol dependence
syndrome: A case study." Journal of Clinical Psychology 78, no. 1 (2022): 15-25.
https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/34897685/
Chithra, Nellai K., Preethi V. Reddy, K. A. Tansa, Rashmi Arasappa, Aravind Raj, Kavita Jangam, and
Muralidharan Kesavan. "Intimate partner violence in women with psychotic disorders." Asian journal of
psychiatry 67 (2022): 102942.
https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/34864339/
COVID-19 pandemic. World Psychiatry. 2022 Jun;21(2):311-313. doi: 10.1002/wps.20976. PMID:
35524625; PMCID: PMC9077615.
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9077615/
Kalra, H., Tran, T., Romero, L., Chandra, P., & Fisher, J. (2022). Burden of severe maternal peripartum
mental disorders in low-and middle-income countries: a systematic review. Archives of Women's Mental
Health, 25(2), 267-275.
https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/35061103/
Bachani, Sumitra, Sushree Monika Sahoo, Sachin Nagendrappa, Anjali Dabral, and Prabha Chandra.
"Anxiety and depression among women with COVID-19 infection during childbirth—Experience from a
tertiary care academic center." AJOG global reports 2, no. 1 (2022): 100033.
https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/34841377/
Raghavan, Archana, Veena A. Satyanarayana, Jane Fisher, Sundarnag Ganjekar, Monica Shrivastav,
Sarita Anand, Vani Sethi, and Prabha S. Chandra. "Gender Transformative Interventions for Perinatal
Mental Health in Low and Middle Income Countries—A Scoping Review." International Journal of
Environmental Research and Public Health 19, no. 19 (2022): 12357.
https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/36231655/
Narayan, Shweta, M. Thomas Kishore, Veena Satyanarayana, Binukumar Bhaskarapillai, Geetha Desai,
and Prabha Chandra. "Bonding and Infants’ Development and Quality of Life: A Study Among Mothers
with Severe Mental Illnesses in Remission." Indian Journal of Psychological Medicine 45, no. 3 (2023):
250-256.
https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/37152397/
Shrivastav, M., Vasudeva, S., Gulati, T., Sahu, B., Saraswat, A., Abraham, N.R., Anand, S., Xaxa, R.S.,
Minj, J., Prajapati, M. and Chandra, P.S., 2022. The mental health of adolescent girls from a tribal region
of Central Rural India during the COVID-19 pandemic–A cross-sectional study to determine the role of
gender disadvantage. Journal of Neurosciences in Rural Practice, 13(4), p.669. doi:10.25259/JNRP-
2022-2-3, PMCID: PMC9894325, PMID: 36743760
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9894325/
Nanjundaswamy, Madhuri H., Shayanth Manche Gowda, Sundarnag Ganjekar, Harish Thippeswamy,
Geetha Desai, and Prabha S. Chandra. "Women with mental illness seeking conception counselling at a
specialist perinatal psychiatry service in India." Asian Journal of Psychiatry 78 (2022): 103313.
https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/36356427/
Arasappa, Rashmi, Usha Rani M. Rangaiah, Madhuri H. Nanjundaswamy, Sundarnag Ganjekar,
Shivarama Varambally, and Prabha S. Chandra. "Feasibility and Acceptability of a Joint Mother Infant
Yoga intervention in mothers admitted to an inpatient Mother Baby unit." Asian Journal of Psychiatry
(2023): 103461.
https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/36682156/
Vaiphei, Kimneihat, Shivanand Yaresheemi, Jessica MK Yang, Arianna Di Florio, Prabha S. Chandra,
and Harish Thippeswamy. "Formation of a stakeholder group of women with a lived experience of Post-
partum Psychoses (PP)–Experience from a perinatal psychiatry service in India." Asian Journal of
Psychiatry 84 (2023): 103592.
https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/37079987/
Banerjee, Debanjan, Rashmi Arasappa, Prabha S. Chandra, and Geetha Desai. "“It seemed like my fault
for wanting to become a mother…”—Experiences and perceptions related to motherhood in women with
severe mental illness." Asia‐Pacific Psychiatry 14, no. 4 (2022): e12519.
https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/35899683/
Bharadwaj, Balaji, R. Endumathi, Sonia Parial, and Prabha S. Chandra. "Management of Psychiatric
Disorders during the Perinatal Period." Indian Journal of Psychiatry 64, no. Suppl 2 (2022): S414.
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9122153/
Shah, Aana, Nabagata Das, Rashmi Arasappa, Sundarnag Ganjekar, Harish Thippeswamy, Veena A.
Satyanarayana, M. Thomas Kishore, Kimneihat Vaiphei, and Prabha S. Chandra. "Perinatal
Depression–Case Review in Clinical Grand Rounds." Journal of Psychiatry Spectrum 2, no. 1 (2023): 59-
65.
https://journals.lww.com/jops/Fulltext/2023/01000/Perinatal_Depression___Case_Review_in_Clinical.13.
aspx
Shiva, Lakshmi, Geetha Desai, Veena A. Satyanarayana, Padmalatha Venkataram, and Prabha S.
Chandra. "Somatic Symptoms in the Postpartum Period and Their Association with Childbirth-related Post
Traumatic Stress Disorder and Depression: A Cross-sectional Study." Journal of Psychiatry Spectrum 2,
no. 1 (2023): 41-45.
https://journals.lww.com/jops/Fulltext/2023/01000/Somatic_Symptoms_in_the_Postpartum_Period_and.8.
aspx
Varma, Deepthi Satheesa, Prerna Kukreti, and Prabha S. Chandra. "Social and cultural factors in
perinatal mental health." Oxford Textbook of Social Psychiatry (2022): 433.
https://www.researchgate.net/publication/362915130_Social_and_cultural_factors_in_perinatal_mental_h
ealth
Meera, J., Thanapal Sivakumar, Reddy K. Shanivaram, Devvarta Kumar, and Prabha S. Chandra.
"Facilitators and Barriers Faced by Women With Severe Mental Illness in Gaining Employment-a
Qualitative Study From Rural India." (2023).
https://www.researchsquare.com/article/rs-2663405/latest.pdf
Tikka, Sai Krishna, Harish Thippeswamy, and Prabha S. Chandra. "The Influence of Culture on Perinatal
Mental Health." In Key Topics in Perinatal Mental Health, pp. 287-302. Cham: Springer International
Publishing, 2022.
https://link.springer.com/chapter/10.1007/978-3-030-91832-3_18
Desai, Geetha, and Prabha S. Chandra. "Perinatal Mental Health in India: Time to Deliver!." Journal of
Psychiatry Spectrum 2, no. 1 (2023): 1-3.
https://journals.lww.com/jops/Fulltext/2023/01000/Perinatal_Mental_Health_in_India__Time_to_Deliver_.
1.aspx
Hodsoll, John, Andrew Pickles, Laura Bozicevic, Thirumalai Ananthanpillai Supraja, Jonathan Hill, Prabha
S. Chandra, and Helen Sharp. "A comparison of non-verbal maternal care of male and female infants in
India and the United Kingdom: the parent-infant caregiving touch scale in two cultures." Frontiers in
Psychology (2022): 1098.
https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/35401353/
Kimmel, Mary, Harish Thippeswamy, Astrid Kamperman, H. N. Madhuri, Karen Putnam, Crystal Schiller,
Katie Weinel et al. "Cross-continental collaboration for understanding postpartum major depression with
psychotic features." Frontiers in global women's health 3 (2022).
https://www.frontiersin.org/articles/10.3389/fgwh.2022.996501/full
Arora, Simran, Preethi V. Reddy, Geetha Desai, Muralidharan Kesavan, and Prabha S. Chandra.
"Valproate prescription among reproductive age women with bipolar disorders-Are regulatory methods the
only solution?." Bipolar Disorders (2023).
https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/36843447/
Mehrotra, Kanika, Poornima Bhola, and Geetha Desai. "Contextualizing motherhood in persons with
borderline personality vulnerabilities: cultural adaptation of the Parent Development Interview-Revised in
an Indian context." Research in Psychotherapy: Psychopathology, Process, and Outcome 26, no. 1
(2023).
https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/36786229/
Kanagarajan, Shyam Sundar, Prateek Varshney, Sundarnag Ganjekar, Aruna Muralidhar, and Geetha
Desai. "Psychiatric Comorbidities among Indian Women with Polycystic Ovary Syndrome: A Scoping
Review." Journal of Psychiatry Spectrum 2, no. 1 (2023): 7-15.
https://journals.lww.com/jops/Fulltext/2023/01000/Psychiatric_Comorbidities_among_Indian_Women_wit
h.3.aspx
H. A, Harshitha, Bhavika Vajawat, Debanjan Banerjee, and Geetha Desai. "Perceived Barriers in the
Assessment and Management of Female Sexual Dysfunction: a Survey Among Resident Trainees in
Psychiatry." Academic Psychiatry (2022): 1-5.
https://www.researchgate.net/publication/26277086_Female_sexual_dysfunction_Barriers_to_treatment
Ganjekar, Sundarnag, Sydney Moirangthem, Channaveerachari Naveen Kumar, Geetha Desai, and
Suresh Bada Math. "Reproductive rights of women with intellectual disability in India." Indian Journal of
Medical Ethics (2022).
https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/36519358/
Ganjekar, Sundarnag, and Rajani Parthasarathy. "Mental Health Questionnaire into Mother and Child
Protection Card (Thayi Card): Initiative to Integrate Perinatal Mental Health into Reproductive and Child
Health Program in Karnataka." Journal of Psychiatry Spectrum 2, no. 1 (2023): 66-67.
https://journals.lww.com/jops/Fulltext/2023/01000/Mental_Health_Questionnaire_into_Mother_and_Child.
14.aspx
Shrivastava, Apoorva, M. Manjula, K. John Vijaysagar, and Harish Thippeswamy. "Parenting styles in
borderline personality disorder: A pilot study." Indian Journal of Social Psychiatry 38, no. 1 (2022): 99-
102.
https://journals.lww.com/ijsp/Fulltext/2022/38010/Parenting_Styles_in_Borderline_Personality.17.aspx
Satyanarayana, Veena A., and Srinivasan Krishnamachari. "Integrated cognitive‐behavioral intervention
reduced alcohol use and perpetration of intimate partner violence in a man with alcohol dependence
syndrome: A case study." Journal of Clinical Psychology 78, no. 1 (2022): 15-25.
https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/34897685/
Chithra, Nellai K., Preethi V. Reddy, K. A. Tansa, Rashmi Arasappa, Aravind Raj, Kavita Jangam, and
Muralidharan Kesavan. "Intimate partner violence in women with psychotic disorders." Asian journal of
psychiatry 67 (2022): 102942.
https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/34864339/
