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- Includes Whooley questions
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- Health visitor at 8 weeks
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- Parent-Infant Interaction Observation Scale (PIIOS) 74
- Ages and Stages Questionnaire75
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- Health visitor at 8 weeks
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- Teach ‘mindfulness’ skills or invite to stress reduction groups
- Encourage parent ‘special time’ for self
- Encourage the use of relaxation techniques
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- Health visitors
- Children’s centre practitioners
- GPs
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- Invite to attend infant massage group
- Encourage to attend children’s centre activities
- Use of local voluntary sector services to support families (i.e. the national charity Home-Start76)
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- Health visitors
- Children’s centre practitioners
- Voluntary sector services
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- Additional visits by health visitor/midwives
- Group-based support (see above)
- Family Nurse Partnership49, 50
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- Health visitors and midwives refer through GPs to specialist perinatal mental health services
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- Domestic abuse support worker
- Substance/alcohol dependency worker; Parents Under Pressure
- IAPT (Improving Access to Psychological Therapies) National counselling service for parents with Anxiety and Depression
- Access to a specialist perinatal and infant mental health services (e.g. Mother and Baby In-Patient and Day Units; parent-infant psychotherapy; Perinatal psychologist
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- Referrals may be made directly to IAPT services. Women may also self-refer to IAPT services
- Specialist mental health practitioners (e.g. psychologist; psychiatrists etc.)
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