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 ...
... less time with friends, and worsening mental health. The article concludes with recommendations regarding information-sharing, social support, and professional support for fathers across the transition ...
... et al., 1990) demonstrating that when women feel in control of decision-making during labour, they enjoy positive mental health after the birth of their babies. Mental health around childbirth is not primarily ...
... and behavioural problems as well as harming physical health. In turn, these primary consequences often cascade into secondary (but no less serious) adversities, including school failure, mental health ...
Author: Scott Mair Author title: Expert by Experience Description: Scott Mair argues that if dads are to be properly supported, professionals need to include them equally with mothers in education for ...
... that maternal depression may have implications for the long-term mental health of the child.
These findings are in line with previous studies which have found associations between maternal depression ...
A longitudinal cohort study from Australia has demonstrated that the well-known association between mental health problems and contact with the criminal justice system in adults and adolescents can be ...
Author: Susan Hogan Author title: Professor of Arts &Health Description: Susan Hogan, Professor of Arts & Health at the University of Derby and Professorial Fellow at the Institute of Mental Health, ...
Today marks the launch of the Royal Foundation Centre for Early Childhood by the Duchess of Cambridge.
The Centre has also published its inaugural report, ‘Big Change Starts Small’, which underlines ...
