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Perinatal Mental Health Awareness

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This course provides healthcare professionals and caregivers with essential knowledge and skills to understand and support perinatal mental health. Covering pregnancy, birth, and the first year postpartum, it explores psychological challenges, risk factors, and effective interventions to promote well-being for mothers, infants, and families. The course is suited for a wide audience, including doctors, nurses, midwives, therapists, and social workers involved in perinatal care.

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Learning Outcomes

What you'll learn

  • Understand key concepts and importance of perinatal and infant mental health.
  • Identify risk factors and signs of psychological distress during pregnancy and postpartum.
  • Apply trauma-informed approaches to support families affected by birth trauma.
  • Utilise screening and assessment tools for early detection of perinatal mental health issues.
  • Develop collaborative care plans involving multidisciplinary teams and families.
  • Recognise safe and effective use of psychotropic medication during pregnancy and breastfeeding.
  • Integrate parent-infant relationship support within mental health care.

Modules

Module 1

Understanding Perinatal Mental Health and Its Importance

Module 2

Identifying and Assessing Perinatal Mental Health Conditions

Module 3

Supporting Families: Trauma-Informed and Person-Centred Care

Module 4

Collaborative Care and Treatment Approaches in the Perinatal Period

Module 5

Summary

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Frequently Asked Questions

A Perinatal Mental Health Awareness course teaches healthcare professionals to recognise, assess and support mental health conditions during pregnancy and up to one year after birth using UK best practice.

This perinatal mental health training course is ideal for midwives, nurses, health visitors, GPs, support workers, maternity staff and other UK healthcare professionals.

The course covers perinatal mental health, postnatal depression, anxiety, birth trauma, screening tools, safeguarding, parent-infant bonding, multidisciplinary care and trauma-informed practice.

Perinatal mental health awareness helps healthcare professionals identify concerns early, improve maternal wellbeing, support infant development and provide timely referrals within UK maternity services.

Yes. The course includes postnatal depression, perinatal anxiety, birth trauma, psychological distress, parent-infant relationships and evidence-based support for families during pregnancy and after birth.