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At COPE, we believe every parent deserves access to compassionate support and reliable information. Our mission is to raise awareness, reduce stigma, and empower families facing perinatal mental health challenges.
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Understand when to seek help, how to take the first step of talking to someone, types of support available, plus how to find specialised perinatal mental health support near you.
Perinatal mental health informational fact sheets and resources have developed specifically for health professionals.
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The following table provides a list of prompts to assess difficulties in the mother-infant relationship.
Bipolar disorder is characterised by intense and sustained mood shifts usually between episodes of depression and mania.
While the concept of physical birth trauma (or birth injury) is well-accepted, there has been less research into psychological birth trauma.
Borderline personality disorder is a long-term complex condition characterised by a pattern of instability of emotions, relationships, sense of identity and impulse control.
The term ‘perinatal anxiety’ refers to anxiety experienced at any time in the antenatal period or in the 12 months following the birth of a baby (postnatal period).
Perinatal depression is common. However, it is often missed or misattributed to aspects of pregnancy (e.g. hormones) or having a baby (e.g. adjustment, sleep deprivation).
Postpartum psychosis, as the name suggests, is an acute psychotic episode arising in the early postnatal period. It is also referred to as postnatal or puerperal psychosis.
Schizophrenia is a severe mental illness that is characterised by psychosis and associated with much stigma and misinformation.
Recommendations and practice points pertaining to the use of medications for the treatment and management of mental health conditions in the perinatal period.
If you’d like to share the fact sheets with those in your care, you can download our antenatal or postnatal fact sheets for families.
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