Postnatal Depression and Maternal Mental Health - Sue Gellhorn

Postnatal Depression and Maternal Mental Health

A Handbook for Frontline Caregivers Working with Women with Perinatal Mental Health Difficulties

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Buch | Softcover
200 Seiten
2015
Pavilion Publishing and Media Ltd (Verlag)
978-1-910366-29-5 (ISBN)
31,45 inkl. MwSt
Postnatal Depression and Maternal Mental Health will provide readers with an excellent grasp 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.
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.

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.

Chapter 1. Introduction Sue Gellhorn (SG), lead author (SG)Chapter 2. Perspectives on Postnatal Depression (SG)Chapter 3. Detection, recognition and assessment of maternal mental health difficulties (SG)Chapter 4. Levels of intervention, treatment and support (SG)Chapter 5. Normal Anxieties in early motherhood and those needing professional attention (SG) Chapter 6. Keeping the Baby in Mind: baby-mindedness in parents and professionalsEleanor GrantChapter 7. Working with the Whole Family (SG)Chapter 8. Supporting Mothers in Complex Family Contexts (SG)Chapter 9. Severe Perinatal Mental Health DifficultiesAgnieszka Klimowicz and Elizabeth Best Chapter 10. Other types of Maternal Mental Health Difficulties (SG)Chapter 11. Challenges for MidwiferyHeather JenkinsChapter 12. Challenges for Health VisitingGemma CatonChapter 13. Perinatal Mental Health NetworksEleanor Grant and Gemma Caton

Erscheinungsdatum
Verlagsort Hove
Sprache englisch
Themenwelt Geisteswissenschaften Psychologie
Medizin / Pharmazie Gesundheitsfachberufe Hebamme / Entbindungspfleger
Medizin / Pharmazie Medizinische Fachgebiete Psychiatrie / Psychotherapie
Medizin / Pharmazie Pflege
ISBN-10 1-910366-29-3 / 1910366293
ISBN-13 978-1-910366-29-5 / 9781910366295
Zustand Neuware
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