Course Content

There are 5 core components to our full 4-day course:

• Learning about depression and understanding the impact of depression on the mother, the baby and others.
• Recognising the strengths and limitations of the Edinburgh Postnatal Depression Scale (EPDS). Assessing maternal mood by appropriate use of the EPDS and a standardised interview.
• Planning brief supportive intervention using active reflective listening skills and some techniques from cognitive behavioural theory.
• Addressing the mother-baby relationship: applying principles from "The Social Baby".
• Investigating other treatments such as anti-depressant therapy.

On-site Courses:

• full 4 day PND Training Course
  The course includes the right to copy the course handbook and the course overheads for each participant. Maximum number: 12.
• 2 day Short Course
  The course includes the right to copy the course handbook and the course overheads for each participant. Maximum number: 12.
• 1 day Workshop
  This workshop aims to raise awareness for midwives, practice nurses and Surestart workers. Maximum number of participants: 20

• 3 day Course for Trainers
  This is based at the Reading university campus. Includes accomodation and meals, CD, video clips and two books. Participants are permitted to use these, and other course materials, to support their own training courses whilst working for their sponsoring organisation.

These courses do not equip participants to become therapists or counsellors.

Training in the use of therapeutic techniques is limited to those strategies that have been found to be helpful in the management of postnatal depression and concentrates on practice rather than theory.

Conditions

Courses are generally delivered on the client's own premises. The participant maxima reflect our experience of the social dynamics of delivery this material to very large (or rather small) groups. Our costs depend on many factors, including time, location and your particular needs.

Please contact us to discuss your particular requirements.