Mental Health Training

The following training programmes have been developed by the Institute of Health Visiting (iHV), with the aim of delivering perinatal mental health training to both health visiting and multi-agency audiences.

The training provides an awareness level of training, which is suitable to all those working on a daily basis with mothers and their families in the perinatal period, to recognise and manage (appropriate to role and responsibilities) mild to moderate perinatal mental illness, to understand the impact of these disorders on the infant, family and society and to know when to refer on.

PIMH Champions Training

The following Champions programmes have been developed by the Institute of Health Visiting (iHV), with the aim of delivering perinatal mental health training to either health visiting or multi-agency audiences. The training provides the background and evidence to underpin a robust knowledge of perinatal mental health and illness for those for those who work with mothers and their families in the perinatal period, in order to become an advocate and a resource for perinatal and infant mental health locally.