Postnatal Depression and Maternal Mental Health: a handbook for frontline caregivers working with women with perinatal mental health difficulties is an accessible handbook that is intended to support midwives, health visitors, community workers and frontline healthcare providers in their detection and assessment of postnatal depression and maternal mental health. Midwives, health visitors, community workers and frontline healthcare providers for pregnant women, and mothers and babies in the first postnatal year, need better information on the kinds of help that women need, and resources they can use to support discussions about difficult and complex feelings. It will provide readers with a good understanding of postnatal depression and the range of perinatal mental health difficulties they may come across in universal services for mental illness in pregnant and postnatal women, and will support them in their detection and assessment of these difficulties in the women on their caseload.This handbook will enable you to:Identify and assess postnatal depression in mothers and then facilitate difficult conversations with sensitivit.Address key learning objectives to progress with CPD accreditation, such as national guidelines and good practice guidance for health providers. Look at new and improved ways of communicating with women with postnatal depression, with a focus on offering support to mothers and babies at an early stage, before intervention is required.

About the Author
Sue GellhornSue is a clinical psychologist with a long term interest in supporting and teaching front-line health practitioners. She worked for 28 years in adult mental health services in the NHS in London and Hertfordshire. Her first specialism was psychiatric rehabilitation, where she developed her interest in the application of psychodynamic understanding to the work of front-line care providers.In the last fifteen years she has worked in clinical, training and supervisory roles to support the mental health of women and babies in the perinatal period. Sue has provided training and supervision for health visitors working with postnatal depression, infant mental health and attachment across two boroughs in North London. From 2007 to 2012, she provided a specialist perinatal clinical service within the Islington Improved Access to Psychological Therapies (IAPT) service.She has a small private clinical psychology practice in Islington, specialising in the treatment of women with perinatal mental health difficulties. Sue is currently training as a parent infant psychotherapist with Oxpip in Oxford.


Book Information
ISBN 9781910366295
Author Sue Gellhorn
Format Paperback
Page Count 200
Imprint Pavilion Publishing and Media Ltd
Publisher Pavilion Publishing and Media Ltd