A flexible learning resource pack for midwives, health visitors/community nurses, and others who care for women around the time of childbirth.

 

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This revised and updated edition of the Marcé Society resource pack reflects advances in understanding of postpartum mental illness and changes in the expectations of consumers and professionals since the first 1994 edition. Today postnatal depression is the mainstream of midwifery and health visiting/community nursing practice and recognised in national standards for mental health care. The term covers a complex group of conditions which lie along a spectrum of severity, and different women need and respond to different forms of help or treatment. At the same time, the needs of more seriously mentally ill childbearing women need to be promptly recognised, referred and treated.

With a strong emphasis on a woman-centred care, this new edition is useful for students and practitioners in primary, community and mental health care settings who wish to extend or reference their skills in working with women to resolve their difficulties.

The Marcé Society is an international society for the understanding, prevention and treatment of mental illness related to childbearing and the authors are leading professionals in the field.

Objectives
The course focuses on understanding the common emotional responses of women around childbirth; recognising the emotional variations and illnesses associated with childbirth; developing attitudes and skills to help women deal with their emotions; and identifying practical steps to help women prevent and deal with emotional problems.

The pack is designed so that it can be used for individual self-study; with tutor support; or for group study.

Four self-study units, totalling eight to ten hours study. Tabbed card dividers with indexes to help learners navigate each unit.

Each unit includes activities to help practitioners apply the ideas from the pack to their work.

Each unit in this new edition has an extensive bibliography to assist readers in developing evidence-based practice.

The resource pack also includes:

Durable white PVC ringbinder, 156 A4 pages.

Email info@marcesociety.com for an order form

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Details about the authors:

Carol Henshaw MB ChB MD MRCPsych is a Consultant Psychiatrist and Senior Lecturer at the School of Medicine at Keele University. She has written extensively on perinatal mental disorder and premenstrual syndrome.

Sandra Elliott, BSC, MPhil, PhD, CPsychol, AFBPsS is a Consultant Clinical Psychologist. She began her perinatal research in 1997. She has trained perinatal mental health trainers in primary care since 1993. She is currently Team Leader for the new MAPPIM services for pregnant women at St Thomas\' Hospital, London.