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Adolescent Pregnancy and Mental Health

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This chapter is a survey of what we know about mental health issues and adolescent pregnancy. Literature and studies from different countries and cultures are presented to inform and help disentangle the influence of adolescent pregnancy on mental health and the influence of mental health on adolescent pregnancy. We know that culture and environment has an influence on behavior and one’s life trajectory. We are also aware that other conditions, such as mental illness can dominate or at minimum complicate the nature and nurture balance. In the process of addressing these mental health issues, the incidence and rate of observed mental health disorders among pregnant adolescents is covered. Then, the impact of depression and other mental health disorders, the adolescent mother’s age, rapid repeat pregnancy, and other uniquely adolescent characteristics such as risk-taking behavior and substance use and misuse will be discussed in relationship to the differential effect on the development and life trajectory of children of adolescent mothers with a mental disorder. Some of the crucial events and factors associated with a mother’s depression that are more likely to affect the mental health of her child have been identified (i.e., the time during the prenatal and postpartum period when the depression occurred, the severity of a depressive episode, and the chronic nature of the mother’s depression). Intergenerational transmission of depression and the child’s inherit tendency toward depression, must also be included among those major forces involved in determining a child’s outcome. The positive side of the findings from these studies is that material differences are creating situations and circumstances that can be modified and changed to reduce the risk to adolescent mothers and their children are exposed to. This is especially true for adolescent girls who have mental health issues that are activated or complicated by pregnancy.

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