Biographical note

Dr. Cheryl Beck is a professor in the School of Nursing at the University of Connecticut. Her clinical expertise is in obstetrical nursing. She is a certified nurse-midwife. For 20 years she has been conducting a research program in postpartum mood and anxiety disorders. She has conducted both qualitative and quantitative research in these areas and has developed the Postpartum Depression Screening Scale. Dr. Watson Driscoll is the President and owner of JWD Associates, Inc., an education and consultation firm. She maintains a private practice as a Clinical Nurse Specialist in Adult Psychiatric-Mental Health Nursing with The Mica Collaborative in Wellesley, Massachusetts. She provides psychotherapy and psychopharmacological therapies to women with mood and anxiety disorders that occur during their reproductive years. For over twenty-five years, Dr. Watson Driscoll has been integrating psychiatric-mental health nursing and obstetrical, gynecological, neonatal and women’s health nursing through her lectures, seminars, videotapes, and publications. She is the co-author of the book entitled Women’s Moods: What every woman must know about hormones, the brain, and emotional health, published in paperback in 2000 by Quill Publishers, New York.