POSTPARTUM DEPRESSION AMONG AFRICAN AMERICAN WOMEN. Discuss your work with an individual, group or family, particularly how your work demonstrates thoughtful cross-cultural practice, illustrating a culturally relevant, and clinically sound, interpretation and application of practice concepts and skills in your assessment and interventions. Specifically, start with a condensed description of the presenting problem and key points in the client's history, and the scope and focus of your work. This section should be approximately 2 pages of the paper, not more. Then, discuss how the work has progressed, through the lenses of culture, power, and understanding/connection, which will be the remainder and primary focus of the paper. This discussion should include which of these factors you have considered most salient in 1.) your assessment of the client, and 2.) in the therapeutic relationship (even if not addressed directly/openly), such as class, ethnicity/nationality, race, gender, education level, etc. This should first include how these factors play a role in the client's issues/problem (the impact of larger social issues on the client), and then additionally what roles they play in the working alliance and therapeutic dyad (or triad, etc).

Shopper Historical past, Scope, and Work Focus

The consumer was an African American girl with postpartum melancholy (PPD). She had
signs of scientific melancholy one month after giving delivery. Her signs have been constant
with the American Psychiatric Affiliation's (2013) definition of PPD – scientific melancholy
occurring inside 4 weeks after childbirth. The consumer's PPD commenced with transitory
depressive signs just a few days after supply. She reported experiencing unexplained
tearfulness, lack of focus, irritability, temper swings, and basic nervousness that lasted 10
days after delivery. After that, the consumer reported feeling nugatory, hopeless, overwhelming
disappointment, and behavioral modifications. She additionally reported sleep disruption, lack of urge for food, low self-
esteem, sexual dissatisfaction, and fears of harming the infant. Nonetheless, she was reluctant to hunt
remedy for concern of public ridicule. Postpartum melancholy is related to social work because it
disproportionately impacts ethnic and racial minorities. It additionally impacts ladies of decrease
socioeconomic standing, usually in rural or marginalized areas (Villegas et al., 2010). In accordance
to the American Faculty of Obstetricians and Gynecologists, pregnant ladies needs to be

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