Category " Good Practice"

I was delighted to be contacted by SAMH, Scotland’s leading mental health charity, http://www.samh.org.uk for an article about postnatal depression with respect to Mothering Sunday coming up. Follow the link here for edition 27 and go to page 15 http://www.samh.org.uk/frontend/index.cfm?page=400 Other useful organisations mentioned are:- Crossreach – is one of the largest social care agencies […]

I have received this information via the March newsletter of the Parental Mental Health and Child Welfare Network (www.pmhcwn.org.uk). The Royal College of Psychiatrists has produced a new film aimed at young carers themselves, in which young carers talk about their lives caring for a parent with a mental health problem. Narrated by Chineye, a […]

I spoke to some student midwives today at Chester University and shared my story, why I feel perinatal mental health is so important and how we can make the journey easier for others. I promised them links to policy drivers and other areas of good practice for maternal mental health:- Policy Drivers Mind – Out […]

I was contacted today by a charity called ‘What about the children’. Their aims are:- Raising awareness of the never-changing emotional needs of children under 3 in our ever-changing society We provide information from research to parents, professionals and politicians about the critical importance of secure primary attachment for the healthy emotional development of infants. […]

Today I spoke at a stakeholder event organised by Rotherham PCT for Maternal Mental Health. There was a very good cross section of delegates ranging from medical students (hooray!), social workers, midwives, GP, obstetrician and we even had a psychiatrist popping in. It was obvious that Rotherham has got some good systems in place already […]