Introduction to Perinatal Mental Health - full day

We will be answering the following questions and highlighting some key issues

• What is perinatal mental health?
• Why is it important?
• Risk factors
• Trauma informed approach
• Common perinatal mental health conditions
• Impact of perinatal mental illness on parenting ability
• Impact on partners
• Equality, diversity & inclusion within perinatal mental health
• Impact on infant brain
• Impact on parent-infant relationship
• Safeguarding the parent and child
• Red and amber flags for suicide awareness
• Signposting and support
• Key things we can all do to support parents and children
• Looking after your own mental wellbeing

This full-day training is delivered by Rachel Jenkins and Paula Bentley, directors of Lifeboat Perinatal Mental Health CIC. Rachel and Paula have many years experience supporting parents with perinatal mental illness and have delivered training and awareness seminars to health visitors, midwives, early years practitioners and the voluntary sector.