Perinatal Training - Day 1 & 2

Course: Perinatal Training (2 day course)

Please Note: this is a two-day course; you cannot do Day 2 without having completed Day 1.

Facilitator: Hertfordshire Community Perinatal Team

Day 1

What You Need to Know to Assess Perinatal Mental Health Problems - a general introduction and foundation that everyone should do

Day 2

Perinatal Mental Health Conditions and Their Treatment - builds on day 1 and goes into more depth about specific disorders and their treatment.

Aim: To provide a multi-agency introduction to perinatal mental health and what support perinatal mental health teams can offer women and their families.

Main topics to be covered:

• Understanding and Managing Perinatal Risk 
• Referrals to the Perinatal Team and what the Perinatal Team do
• Lived experience
• The parent infant relationship
• Partner’s mental health
• Overview of Anxiety Disorders, Trauma and Eating Disorders
• Personality disorders and young mums
• Perinatal loss
• Working with neuro divergence
• Using medication in the perinatal period

PLEASE NOTE: This is a 2-day event - enrolling on this course indicates you will be available for both dates as specified. 

Non-attendance of Day 2 may result in you incurring non-attendance charges as per the HSCP's policy. 

This is a virtual training course and delegates will be sent an invitation via Microsoft Teams to join the event. Please note that your email address may be visible to other delegates on the Microsoft Teams  invite.