Michael W O’hara
Biographic Data
| ID | 766844 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Michael W O’hara |
| GIVEN NAMES | Michael W |
| FAMILY NAME | O’hara |
| SIGNATURE | O’HARA M W |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Iowa |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-1796-0449 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 21 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 6 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 20 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 1 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1982 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
Imperfections and Scars: The Aesthetics of Curated Decay in Urban Conservation
This paper explores the value of imperfections and curated decay in the conservation of architecture and public art as vehicles of cultural memory. While conventional heritage practice treats physical degradation as a threat, newer conservation ethics argue for embracing material impermanence within an aesthetics of care. We examine how acknowledging patina, weathering, and even structural decline can become an act of care, maintaining the “spiri…
Postpartum depressive symptom severity among childbearing veterans: Examining contributions of environmental indices
< .001). Rural-dwelling Veterans had lower depressive symptom severity than non-rural dwelling Veterans. Resource richness was not significantly associated with depressive symptom severity. There was not a significant interaction between race and rurality. The results of this study indicate that Black postpartum Veterans enrolled in VA care experienced greater depressive symptom severity. Additionally, rural-dwelling postpartum Veterans reported …
Examining the structure of distress tolerance: Are behavioral and self-report indicators assessing the same construct
Examining psychological inflexibility as a mediator of postpartum depressive symptoms: A longitudinal observational study of perinatal depression
How much is enough in brief Acceptance and Commitment Therapy? A randomized trial
Maternal depression and breastfeeding in home visitation
More social support is associated with more positive mood but excess support is associated with more negative mood
Support gaps occur when an individual receives less or more of a certain type of social support than the individual desires. Existing research suggests that support gaps are associated with unwanted relationship and psychological outcomes. However, many of the outcomes associated with support gaps are also associated with received support and support availability-and it is not clear that support gaps explain anything about such outcomes beyond wh…
Burnout and depression in medical students: Relations with avoidance and disengagement
Depression Treatment by Non‐Mental‐Health Providers: Incremental Evidence for the Effectiveness of Listening Visits
Maternal depression is a prevalent public health problem, particularly for low‐income mothers of young children. Intervention development efforts, which often focus on surmounting instrumental barriers to care, have not successfully engaged and retained women in treatment. Task‐sharing approaches like Listening Visits (LV) could overcome key instrumental and psychological barriers by leveraging the access of trusted, community caregivers to deliv…
A Pilot Investigation to Enhance Behavioral Health Referral for Perinatal, Low-Income Women With Mood Disorders
The findings demonstrated favorable outcomes compared with other referral interventions. The behavioral health referral intervention shows promise for implementation in community settings
Perinatal mental illness: Definition, description and aetiology
The Oxford Handbook of Depression and Comorbidity
Depression is frequently associated with other psychiatric disorders, chronic health problems, and distressed close relationships. This comorbidity between depression and other disorders and problems is important. Furthermore, there has been a large increase in research on depressive comorbidity. Therefore, a book of 37 state-of-the-art reviews by experts will be helpful to teachers, researchers, practitioners, developers of relevant policies, an…
Postpartum Depression: Current Status and Future Directions
Postpartum depression (PPD) is a common and serious mental health problem that is associated with maternal suffering and numerous negative consequences for offspring. The first six months after delivery may represent a high-risk time for depression. Estimates of prevalence range from 13% to 19%. Risk factors mirror those typically found with major depression, with the exception of postpartum-specific factors such as sensitivity to hormone changes…
Perinatal Depression Screening in Healthy Start: An Evaluation of the Acceptability of Technical Assistance Consultation
Disseminating Perinatal Depression Screening as a Public Health Initiative: A Train-the-Trainer Approach
Postpartum depression: What we know
Postpartum depression (PPD) is a serious mental health problem. It is prevalent, and offspring are at risk for disturbances in development. Major risk factors include past depression, stressful life events, poor marital relationship, and social support. Public health efforts to detect PPD have been increasing. Standard treatments (e.g., Interpersonal Psychotherapy) and more tailored treatments have been found effective for PPD. Prevention efforts…
Development and validation of the Inventory of Depression and Anxiety Symptoms (Idas).
The authors describe a new self-report instrument, the Inventory of Depression and Anxiety Symptoms (IDAS), which was designed to assess specific symptom dimensions of major depression and related anxiety disorders. They created the IDAS by conducting principal factor analyses in 3 large samples (college students, psychiatric patients, community adults); the authors also examined the robustness of its psychometric properties in 5 additional sampl…
Maternal depression: A review of relevant treatment approaches for mothers and infants
The negative impact of postpartum depression on the mother-infant relationship and infant development more generally has been well documented. Compared to infants of nondepressed mothers, infants of depressed mothers have been shown to be less securely attached to their caregivers and often have cognitive, emotional, and behavioral deficits that persist well into childhood. Recent evidence has suggested that reduction of maternal depressive sympt…
Infant Emotionality: Observational Methods and the Validity of Maternal Reports
This study was designed to improve the observational measurement of emotionality, and to test factors that influence the validity of maternal reports. More than 150 infants were visited at home with their mothers, two thirds of whom were depressed. These visits yielded 4 different observational measures of positive and negative emotionality at both 6 and 9 months. These were standard assessments (based on LabTab), naturalistic interactions, atypi…
Interpersonal psychotherapy for postpartum depression
Choice of Immediate versus Delayed Reinforcement and Depression
Rehm (1977) suggested that depressed persons may prefer immediate reward at the expense of long-term reward. 41 women who had just participated in a psychological experiment were given the option of receiving the pay which they had been promised ($20) immediately or waiting up to 60 days and receiving $30. A point-biserial correlation of −.07 was obtained between subjects' Beck Depression Inventory scores and their choices of immediate versus del…
More social support is associated with more positive mood but excess support is associated with more negative mood
Support gaps occur when an individual receives less or more of a certain type of social support than the individual desires. Existing research suggests that support gaps are associated with unwanted relationship and psychological outcomes. However, many of the outcomes associated with support gaps are also associated with received support and support availability-and it is not clear that support gaps explain anything about such outcomes beyond wh…
Maternal depression and breastfeeding in home visitation
Choice of Immediate versus Delayed Reinforcement and Depression
Rehm (1977) suggested that depressed persons may prefer immediate reward at the expense of long-term reward. 41 women who had just participated in a psychological experiment were given the option of receiving the pay which they had been promised ($20) immediately or waiting up to 60 days and receiving $30. A point-biserial correlation of −.07 was obtained between subjects' Beck Depression Inventory scores and their choices of immediate versus del…
Interpersonal psychotherapy for postpartum depression
Infant Emotionality: Observational Methods and the Validity of Maternal Reports
This study was designed to improve the observational measurement of emotionality, and to test factors that influence the validity of maternal reports. More than 150 infants were visited at home with their mothers, two thirds of whom were depressed. These visits yielded 4 different observational measures of positive and negative emotionality at both 6 and 9 months. These were standard assessments (based on LabTab), naturalistic interactions, atypi…
Maternal depression: A review of relevant treatment approaches for mothers and infants
The negative impact of postpartum depression on the mother-infant relationship and infant development more generally has been well documented. Compared to infants of nondepressed mothers, infants of depressed mothers have been shown to be less securely attached to their caregivers and often have cognitive, emotional, and behavioral deficits that persist well into childhood. Recent evidence has suggested that reduction of maternal depressive sympt…
Development and validation of the Inventory of Depression and Anxiety Symptoms (Idas).
The authors describe a new self-report instrument, the Inventory of Depression and Anxiety Symptoms (IDAS), which was designed to assess specific symptom dimensions of major depression and related anxiety disorders. They created the IDAS by conducting principal factor analyses in 3 large samples (college students, psychiatric patients, community adults); the authors also examined the robustness of its psychometric properties in 5 additional sampl…
Postpartum depression: What we know
Postpartum depression (PPD) is a serious mental health problem. It is prevalent, and offspring are at risk for disturbances in development. Major risk factors include past depression, stressful life events, poor marital relationship, and social support. Public health efforts to detect PPD have been increasing. Standard treatments (e.g., Interpersonal Psychotherapy) and more tailored treatments have been found effective for PPD. Prevention efforts…
Disseminating Perinatal Depression Screening as a Public Health Initiative: A Train-the-Trainer Approach
Perinatal Depression Screening in Healthy Start: An Evaluation of the Acceptability of Technical Assistance Consultation
Postpartum Depression: Current Status and Future Directions
Postpartum depression (PPD) is a common and serious mental health problem that is associated with maternal suffering and numerous negative consequences for offspring. The first six months after delivery may represent a high-risk time for depression. Estimates of prevalence range from 13% to 19%. Risk factors mirror those typically found with major depression, with the exception of postpartum-specific factors such as sensitivity to hormone changes…
Perinatal mental illness: Definition, description and aetiology
The Oxford Handbook of Depression and Comorbidity
Depression is frequently associated with other psychiatric disorders, chronic health problems, and distressed close relationships. This comorbidity between depression and other disorders and problems is important. Furthermore, there has been a large increase in research on depressive comorbidity. Therefore, a book of 37 state-of-the-art reviews by experts will be helpful to teachers, researchers, practitioners, developers of relevant policies, an…
A Pilot Investigation to Enhance Behavioral Health Referral for Perinatal, Low-Income Women With Mood Disorders
The findings demonstrated favorable outcomes compared with other referral interventions. The behavioral health referral intervention shows promise for implementation in community settings
Burnout and depression in medical students: Relations with avoidance and disengagement
Depression Treatment by Non‐Mental‐Health Providers: Incremental Evidence for the Effectiveness of Listening Visits
Maternal depression is a prevalent public health problem, particularly for low‐income mothers of young children. Intervention development efforts, which often focus on surmounting instrumental barriers to care, have not successfully engaged and retained women in treatment. Task‐sharing approaches like Listening Visits (LV) could overcome key instrumental and psychological barriers by leveraging the access of trusted, community caregivers to deliv…
More social support is associated with more positive mood but excess support is associated with more negative mood
Support gaps occur when an individual receives less or more of a certain type of social support than the individual desires. Existing research suggests that support gaps are associated with unwanted relationship and psychological outcomes. However, many of the outcomes associated with support gaps are also associated with received support and support availability-and it is not clear that support gaps explain anything about such outcomes beyond wh…
How much is enough in brief Acceptance and Commitment Therapy? A randomized trial
Maternal depression and breastfeeding in home visitation
Examining psychological inflexibility as a mediator of postpartum depressive symptoms: A longitudinal observational study of perinatal depression
Examining the structure of distress tolerance: Are behavioral and self-report indicators assessing the same construct
Postpartum depressive symptom severity among childbearing veterans: Examining contributions of environmental indices
< .001). Rural-dwelling Veterans had lower depressive symptom severity than non-rural dwelling Veterans. Resource richness was not significantly associated with depressive symptom severity. There was not a significant interaction between race and rurality. The results of this study indicate that Black postpartum Veterans enrolled in VA care experienced greater depressive symptom severity. Additionally, rural-dwelling postpartum Veterans reported …
Imperfections and Scars: The Aesthetics of Curated Decay in Urban Conservation
This paper explores the value of imperfections and curated decay in the conservation of architecture and public art as vehicles of cultural memory. While conventional heritage practice treats physical degradation as a threat, newer conservation ethics argue for embracing material impermanence within an aesthetics of care. We examine how acknowledging patina, weathering, and even structural decline can become an act of care, maintaining the “spiri…
Psychiatry (17 works) · Medicine (16 works) · Psychology (15 works) · Clinical Psychology (14 works) · Maternal Mental Health During Pregnancy and Postpartum (14 works) · Child and Adolescent Psychosocial and Emotional Development (13 works) · Anxiety (8 works) · Clinical Psychology (8 works) · Depression (economics (7 works) · Postpartum depression (7 works)