1st Edition

Psychosocial Resilience and Risk in the Perinatal Period Implications and Guidance for Professionals

Edited By Gill Thomson, Virginia Schmied Copyright 2017
252 Pages
by Routledge

252 Pages
by Routledge

252 Pages
by Routledge

Bringing together experts in the field, this important book considers the underlying risk factors that create situations of psychosocial vulnerability and marginalisation for mothers, from their baby’s conception up to a year after birth. Adopting a strengths-based approach, the book looks not only at the incidence and impact of disadvantageous circumstances on women but also explores protective... Read more

Foreword by Soo Downe  1. Introducing the s and focus Virginia Schmied and Gill Thomson  2. Women with a diagnosed mental health problem Julie Jomeen, Susan E. Fleming and Colin R. Martin  3. Asylum seekers and refugees. A cross European perspective Marie-Clare Balaam, Mel Cooper, Dineke Korfker and Charles Savona-Ventura   4. Working with Indigenous families Donna Hartz and Leona McGrath   5. Lesbian women becoming mothers Brenda Hayman   6. Women with a disability, transition to motherhood and the self Denise Lawler   7. Domestic and family violence Angela Taft and Leesa Hooker   8. Maternal substance use in the perinatal period Lucinda Burns, Victoria Coleman-Cowger and Courtney Breen   9. Women who are incarcerated Cathrine Fowler and Chris Rossiter   10. Giving birth earlier than expected. Mothers whose new-born requires neonatal intensive care Nancy Feeley   11. The ripple effects of a traumatic birth. Risk, impact and implications for practice Gill Thomson, Cheryl Beck and Susan Ayers  12. Reproductive loss and grief Hannah Dahlen   13. Resilience and sustainability amongst maternity care providers Susan Crowther   14. Interprofessional collaboration. A crucial component of support for women and families in the perinatal period Kim Psaila and Virginia Schmied  15. Drawing the threads together Gill Thomson and Virginia Schmied

Biography

Gill Thomson is Senior Research Fellow at the Maternal and Infant Nutrition and Nurture Unit, University of Central Lancashire, UK.

Virginia Schmied is Professor of Midwifery in the School of Nursing and Midwifery at the Western Sydney University, Australia, and co-leads the Mother Infant and Family Health (MIFam) Research Network.