The Maternal Mental Health Alliance (MMHA) in the UK has explored how the pandemic has challenged women’s perinatal mental health and the services that support families across the transition to parenthood. ...
The Covid-19 pandemic has had a direct impact on maternal perinatal mental health and an indirect one via changes in health care, social policy, and families’ social and economic circumstances.
This ...
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In the UK, women may find it hard to locate and access perinatal mental health services. This paper reports a systematic ...
Author: Astrid Berg, Anusha Lachman Description: An MPhil in Infant Mental Health to train competent IMH clinicians to attend to the mental health needs of children from 0-3 years old in a developing ...
Author: Rebecca Moore Author title: Consultant Perinatal Psychiatrist, UK, and Co-Founder of Make Birth Better Description: How can we support fathers to feel well prepared for birth and afterwards? ...
Author: Dawn Cannon Description: This article outlines the background to and the need for an Infant Mental Health Competency Framework in the UK and describes how practitioners self-assess against the ...
Author: Peter van de Ende Description: This article outlines the challenges facing mothers and fathers with mental illness, the strategies they employ to manage their families, and the support they need ...
Author: Katharine Frost, Nicola Dawson, Tony Hamburger Description: This paper describes a preventative infant mental health project, the Ububele Home Visiting Project (UHVP), designed specifically for ...
Author: Tejinder K. Kondel-Laws Description: Skills for school readiness may not be the priority for most parents and indeed, may seem overwhelming as a responsibility. However, by opening-up a dialogue ...
Author: Jane Hanley Description: Jane Hanley discusses the impact of postnatal depression on the brain of her infant and the longer term impacts on the child. She also explores recognising postnatal depression ...
Author: Andrea Baldwin Alexandra De Young, Author title: Andrea Baldwin, PhD Alexandra De Young, PhD Description: Practitioners from the Queensland Centre for Perinatal and Infant Mental Health in ...
... Development Researcher Description: Researchers from the foremost children’s charity in the UK examine staff’s experience of providing an online service for women with poor perinatal mental health and ...
... disorder, and explore best practice in antenatal and postnatal care. Description writer: Abigail Easter, Section of Women’s Mental Health, Health Service and Population Research Department, Institute ...
The only inpatient unit of its kind has been set up in Wales to offer multidisciplinary mental health care to women from 32 weeks of pregnancy until babies are one year old.
Until now, mothers with ...
... infants in the first 1001 days of life from conception to two. It paves the way for a universal offer in England of health visiting, midwifery, breastfeeding and mental health support services in every ...
... Infant Mental Health training opportunities and materials available online as of May 2020. Description Writer: Searching and reviews were completed by a Consultant Clinical Child Psychologist with extensive ...
... good mental health in infancy. This article describes a resource that helps practitioners to hold infants in mind. Description writer: Matthew Price, Principal Clinical Psychologist – Little Minds Matter, ...
... including job loss (60%), income decline (69%), increased caregiving burden (45%) and illness (12%). Mental health was worst for parents and children who suffered all four hardships. The authors of the ...
... contractions, carrying out babycare, and for supporting mental health (Nolan, 2020). The context for learning is a group one which enables a small number of parents to share their hopes, fears, values ...
... Balbernie, Child Psychotherapist and Infant Mental Health Specialist
Babies are biologically primed to make social connections, a straightforward survival mechanism that paves the way to the later ...
