Parents who frequently exercise harsh discipline with young children are putting them at significantly greater risk of developing lasting mental health problems, new evidence shows.
In a study of over ...
Author: Rachel O’Brien, Caroline Mitchell Description: Early years practitioners are the newest role to be integrated into the recently expanded Specialist Perinatal Mental Health Service in Sussex in ...
Author: Laura Godfrey-Isaacs Description: Maternal Journal is an interdisciplinary Arts in Health project which explores the potential of journaling in pregnancy, early parenthood and beyond, as a way ...
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 ...
Do you find it hard to know where to refer women for perinatal mental health care?
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 ...
... Dresden Study of Parenting, Work, and Mental Health. The survey asked about relationship satisfaction two months before the birth of the child, eight weeks postpartum, 14 months postpartum, and two years ...
... missteps on the journey to being simply a ‘good enough’ mother or father.
Keywords: perinatal mental health, community, circle of security, group work, parenting self-efficacy, PSE, The Circle of Security ...
... available, especially when contact with health professionals is reduced, and to share ideas for developing professional and parent education.
Keywords: perinatal mental health, perinatal education, ...
... between general self-efficacy, parental self-efficacy, and mental health across the transition to parenthood among 24 heterosexual couples becoming parents for the first time. Results indicated that prenatal ...
... reflects on the transition to parenthood in a digital age.
Keywords: Gen Z parenting, Gen Y Parenting, mental health support, late pre-term babies, HUG your Baby, Read the Signals, Raising Children Network, ...
... (Adrian) Li, a neuroimaging research technician in the Department of Psychiatry. “For example, weaknesses in white matter are linked to visuospatial and mental health challenges in children. If we can ...
... cognition can lead to improved economic productivity in the long term and reduce the burden on healthcare and mental health systems.
One key factor the team measured was the cooking fuel commonly used ...
