NEW: Clark Prof. Receives $700K to Study Postpartum Depression
Wednesday, May 08, 2013
The project will run for three-and-a-half years and will be titled, “Mental health in the postpartum period among visible and invisible sexual minority women: A U.S.-Canada study.”
“This research has exciting possibilities for shifting our understanding of sexual identity, behavior, and relationship history and their implications for mental health, particularly during the transition to parenthood,” said professor Goldberg. “We hope that our findings will be able to inform the practice of health care providers who interface with women during the perinatal period.”
Goldberg’s grant was one of two federal grants received by Worcester researchers and/or organizations recently, along with The Family Health Center of Worcester, which received $367,630 to continue funding of their Health Center Cluster.
The Clark professor will serve as principal investigator and will work with Lori E. Ross, associate professor in the Department of Psychiatry at the University of Toronto, to focus on increasing the understanding of factors that contribute to experiences of mental health and wellness of mothers during pregnancy.
This study will examine postpartum depression in a diverse group of women including heterosexual women, visible sexual minority women (i.e., lesbian women) and invisible sexual minority women (i.e., who have a history of sexual relationships with women but who are partnered with men at the time that they become parents).
“These competitive grants once again illustrate the incredible work being done in health research and health services in Worcester,” said Congressman Jim McGovern in a recent press release. “We are fortunate to have organizations like Family Health Center and Clark University leading the charge to ensure that our residents – all of them – get the physical and mental care they deserve.”
Goldberg has also received $10,000 from The Lesbian Health Fund (LHF), a program of the Gay and Lesbian Medical Association (GLMA), for “Lesbian parents and their adopted children three years post-placement,” and $1,000 from the Society for the Scientific Study of Sexuality for “Lesbian, gay, and heterosexual adoptive parents' relationship quality.”
She received a faculty development grant from Clark to serve as principal investigator of “Relationships with others who share the same sperm donor.”
Goldberg is co-editor of “LGBT-Parent Families: Innovations in Research and Implications for Practice,” and author of “Gay Dads: Transitions to adoptive fatherhood.” Her first book, “Lesbian and Gay Parents and their Children: Research on the Family Life Cycle,” won several awards.
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