Sentences with phrase «maternal mental health interventions»

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Both psychologists specialize in maternal and early childhood mental health and development, with training in Perinatal Mood and Anxiety Disorders, postgraduate specialties in Parent - Infant Psychotherapy, and experience working in the Early Intervention and Special Education systems.

Third, efforts to augment existing home visitation services with mental health interventions aimed at preventing and treating maternal depression should be further tested with rigorous research studies and scaled up as appropriate.

She said, «Comprehensive transition home assessment and interventions to reduce anxiety and bolster maternal mental health, confidence and readiness, along with post discharge assessment, are needed to identify, treat and support mothers of preterm infants.»

This includes interventions such as providing adequate nutrition for optimal cognitive development and detecting and managing postpartum depression and other maternal mental health issues.

Subgroup analyses: We will examine whether there is evidence that the intervention effect is modified for subgroups within the trial participants using tests of interaction between intervention and child and family factors as follows: parity (first - born vs other), antenatal risks (2 vs 3 or more risk factors at screening), maternal mental health at baseline (high vs low score) 18, 62, 63 and self - efficacy at baseline (poor vs normal mastery) 35 using the regression models described above with additional terms for interaction between subgroup and trial arm.

Although maternal stress, anxiety, and depression have been linked to negative birth outcomes, few studies have investigated preventive interventions targeting maternal mental health as a means of reducing such problems.

This study aims to test the effect of an evidence - based, complex interdisciplinary lifestyle and psychosocial continuous prepartum and postpartum intervention in women with GDM on maternal and offspring metabolic and mental health outcomes up to 1 year postpartum.

For the secondary aims, the analyses will be performed both for differences in changes between the intervention and the control group and for differences between groups at different time points (baseline at inclusion, childbirth, 6 — 8 weeks and 1 year postpartum) in maternal metabolic health outcomes, maternal mental health outcomes and offspring metabolic and mental health outcomes.

To increase efficacy of intervention, the multifactorial origins of GDM and the tight link between mental and metabolic as well as maternal and child health need to be heeded.

Participants also heard that coordinated interventions that properly engage parents and vulnerable children with interrelated issues — such as maternal mental health, parental incarceration, racism and familial stress — and also engage with the child protection and welfare systems, have the best chance of being effective.

The summit is a collaborative effort of key statewide groups in maternal and child health, prevention and early intervention, infant mental health, school readiness and early childhood development.

The conference is a collaborative effort of key statewide groups in maternal & child health, prevention & early intervention, infant mental health, school readiness and early child development.

Monitoring maternal mental health beyond the first months after a birth could facilitate early interventions to support mothers and prevent or ameliorate further mental health problems.

Two posthoc tests of interaction provided no evidence of differential effects of intervention on externalising or internalising behaviour problems by preintervention risk based on (1) a maternal mental health problem (clinical - level depression, anxiety or stress) or (2) infant difficult temperament.

Dr. Connie Lillas is a National Graduate Zero to Three Leadership Fellow and an infant mental health and early intervention specialist with a background in maternal - child nursing, family systems, and developmental psychoanalysis.

More than 45 publications in peer - reviewed journals on substance abuse treatment for women and children, children impacted by maternal substance use and trauma, early childhood mental health consultation, and parenting interventions.

Cross-sectored communities include, but are not limited to, practitioners and home visitors that work within the cross-section of medical and maternal - child health, early intervention, mental health, early care and education, and child welfare.

For example, adult anxiety disorders are common, often comorbid with depression, and associated with substantial functional impairment.17 A pediatric focus in research and practice on the mother's mental health, and, in particular, on maternal depressive symptoms, may limit our understanding of how the mental health of both parents affects children and may narrow our approaches to intervention.