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Perinatal Mental Health

Perinatal Mental Health Week (17 – 23 November) is all about letting parents know they are not alone, and that they’re part of a supportive community.

If you’re looking to better support the mental health of new and existing parents, MHPN provides free professional development resources that can help. Extend your knowledge and explore the following curated compilation of webinars, podcasts and networks, focusing on perinatal mental health.

 

Total play time: 5 hours 55 minutes
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  • Network
Online Women's Mental Health
Melbourne, VIC
The network aims to bring together practitioners, invite speakers for education sessions, provide a platform for professional development and peer support, give an understanding of how services & practitioners can work collaboratively to better support women's mental health, strengthen professional relationships and enhance referral pathways.
  • Women's mental health
  • Network
Online Prenatal Diagnosis Mental Health
North Melbourne, VIC
Of the 1 in 22 parents who receive a prenatal diagnosis of a major congenital anomaly, many experience shock, distress and anxiety and PTSD. Parents can find it difficult to find support at this time-sensitive period and beyond. This network aims to bring the psychosocial side of prenatal diagnosis out of the shadows. Network members will share experiences and expertise for supporting families through prenatal diagnosis and what comes beyond.
  • Perinatal
  • Network
Kew Perinatal
Kew, VIC
This is a medium-sized network with a specific interest focus on Perinatal mental health. Network meetings consist of guest speaker presentations; case discussions and peer support. This network aims to meet quarterly.
  • Perinatal
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  • Podcast
23 Nov 2022 . 34 mins

In The First Person: A Mother’s Experience of Postpartum Psychosis

In this episode, Ariane, mother of Henry, former elite dancer, child services caseworker, and psychologist and now advocate, shares her raw and unedited account of the experience and clinical treatment of postpartum psychosis.
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  • Podcast
09 Nov 2022 . 24 mins

A Conversation About… Perinatal Mental Health

In this episode, Nicole Highet, psychologist, and Natasha Lindros, clinical psychologist, share their perspectives on what Perinatal Mental Health is; how and why the field - of which Australia is a world leader - is growing and evolving; and why it is a rewarding specialty in which to work.
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  • Podcast
04 Nov 2020 . 35 mins

Transitions: Becoming Us – Part 1

In this episode, our co-hosts share the joys, challenges, expected and unexpected lessons of navigating parenthood.
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  • Podcast
18 Nov 2020 . 37 mins

Transitions: Becoming Us – Part 2

In this episode, co-hosts Monica and Julianne delve deeper in to the transitions associated with parenthood.
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  • Webinar
15 Aug 2023

Practice skills to promote infant and parent mental health in the first twelve months of life

This webinar explores assessment strategies that are responsive to a family's psychosocial context and the evolving parent-child relationship.
  • Webinar
12 May 2022

An interdisciplinary approach to Perinatal anxiety and depression

The webinar features an interdisciplinary panel of experts that explores how health professionals can better identify symptoms of perinatal anxiety and depression and provide enhanced care for women at risk.
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  • Webinar
28 Jun 2023

Supporting the mental health of bereaved parents after miscarriage, stillbirth and neonatal deaths

This webinar discusses the complex relationship between grief, loss, and mental health for bereaved parents.

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