Postnatal depression and maternal mental health : a handbook for front-line caregivers working with women with perinatal mental health difficulties

Includes bibliographical references.

Contents
Acknowledgements
About the authors
Chapter 1: Introduction
Chapter 2: Perspectives on postnatal depression
Chapter 3: Detection, recognition and assessment of maternal mental health difficulties
Chapter 4: Levels of intervention, treatment and support
Chapter 5: Normal anxieties in early motherhood and those needing professional attention
Chapter 6: Keeping the baby in mind: baby-mindedness in parents and professionals
Chapter 7: Working with the whole family
Chapter 8: Supporting mothers in complex family contexts
Chapter 9: Severe perinatal mental health difficulties
Chapter 10: Other types of maternal mental health difficulties
Chapter 11: Challenges for midwives
Chapter 12: Challenges for health visitors
Chapter 13: Perinatal mental health pathways and networks

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.