Perinatal mental health overview
Episode 5, Apr 29, 2019, 08:22 AM
This podcast looks at NSPCC’s two services, Pregnancy in Mind and Baby Steps, and how they support parents with their perinatal mental health problems.
During the perinatal period, from pregnancy up to a year after birth, women and their partners can be affected by a number of mental health problems. These can include anxiety, depression, eating disorders, obsessive compulsive disorder (OCD) and post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD).
The NSPCC runs two services that support parents with their mental health, Pregnancy in Mind (PiM) and Baby Steps. In our fifth podcast, we speak with Louise Harrington, Development and Impact Manager and Victoria Joel (Tori), Implementation Manager about preventative mental health services and perinatal educational programmes.
Find out why parents might be referred to these types of services, how they engage with families to provide the right support and what provisions are currently available to parents outside of the NSPCC.
We end the podcast with a discussion about how the child is kept at the centre of the programmes and how this is managed in cases where babies are yet to be born.
View the podcast transcript on the NSPCC Learning website.
View the podcast transcript on the NSPCC Learning website.