Perinatal mood and anxiety disorders (PMADs) are common and are associated with potentially poor outcomes for maternal, child and family units. Primary care holds a crucial role in detecting and managing mental health care for affected women.
In this webinar, Mark Huthwaite provides an overview to identify, screen and manage women with PMADs. He will discuss:
- What has happened to post-natal depression (PND)?
- Identifying the difference between “baby blues” and post-partum depression.
- Maternal screening tools.
- Identifying risk and protective factors.
- Recognising the impact of PMADs on families.
Resources
- Postpartum Support International
- Postnatal depression bpacnz (2010)
- Edinburgh Postnatal Depression Scale
- Maternal mental health - Clinician seminar PHARMAC (2019)
- JaneHonikman.com
- LactMed App
- The prevalence of symptoms of depression and anxiety, and the level of life stress and worry in New Zealand Māori and non-Māori women in late pregnancy. Aust and NZ Jnl Psychiatry (2016)
- Antenatal depression symptoms in Pacific women: evidence from Growing Up in New Zealand Jnl Primary Health Care (2019)
Resources for parents
- Mothers matter
- Postnatal depression and Anxiety Plunket
- Postnatal depression Depression.org
- Postnatal depression Mental Health Foundation
- Clearhead
Presenter
Dr Mark Huthwaite
Mark is a senior lecturer in psychiatry and Associate Dean of Student Affairs at the University of Otago, Wellington.
He is also a perinatal psychiatrist in the Regional Specialist Maternal Mental Health Service in Wellington.
Mark was a member of the RANZCP’s Special Interest Group in Perinatal and Infant Psychiatry Bi-national Committee and is a member of the organising committee for World Maternal Mental Health Day.
