The London Mental Health Fact Book In Wandsworth, the Trust’s IAPT service also provides a specialist service for women with mild to moderate anxiety and depression in the perinatal period. In addition to providing individual assessment and therapy, Wandsworth IAPT also offers a number of group or course based alternatives. The development of dedicated perinatal interventions began in 2013 with the design of the ‘Making the Most of Motherhood’ (MMOM) course. This is an evidence based course for mothers experiencing postnatal depression and anxiety and offers an opportunity to provide mothers with social support within the group. The course is organised and delivered by a Counselling Psychologist and a Cognitive Behavioural Therapy (CBT) Psychotherapist. The MMOM course provides strategies for coping with difficult childcare situations, how to apply CBT techniques to tackle unhelpful beliefs about motherhood, self, environment and the future, and other techniques such as relaxation to help manage distress and anxiety. Three sessions are also provided to partners and families to learn about postnatal depression and anxiety, and how they can best support the mother. Results so far have been promising. Mothers’ depressive and anxiety scores decrease over the course and many participants leave the course with either mild or sub-clinical depressive symptoms, suggesting that the course is an effective therapy for postnatal depression and anxiety. 20 In addition to providing individual assessment and therapy, Wandsworth IAPT also offers a number of group or course based alternatives. “ ”
London Mental Health Fact Bbook
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