Title:

Perinatal Mental Health for Health Visitors

Description:

The Health Visitor Implementation Plan contains core aims to “improve opportunities to use the full range of health visitor skills and re-emphasise health visitors as key public health professionals” and to “ensure a strong focus on responding to differential needs and improving outcomes, and that systems promote effective join-up between services in ways that best meet local needs.”

Training health visitors to identify and treat postnatal depression, including making referrals to specialist counselling, is a key driver of these aims.

The two e-learning modules developed by the Institute of Health Visiting, in partnership with HEE look at:

Perinatal Mental Health: Health Visitor Assessment
Perinatal Mental Health: Health Visitor Interventions

The resource is made up of expert peer reviewed content and videos, interactions and knowledge checks.

Hierarchy:

Perinatal Mental Health (PMH) > Perinatal Mental Health for Health Visitors

Keywords:

Perinatal, Mental, Health

Created:

14 May 2014

Updated:

7 May 2020