Creating new HORIZONS

摘要

Joint working between health visiting and talking therapy services at Somerset Partnership NHS Foundation Trust has been delivering positive results at perinatal mental health groups for mothers, fathers and their babies. The aims of the joint working are for health visitors to learn assertiveness and therapeutic intervention skills from their talking therapy psychological wellbeing practitioner (PWP) colleagues, and for PWPs to learn about parenting and child development from the health visitors. For the parents attending the Horizon perinatal mental health groups, the goals are to understand perinatal mental health, build strategies to deal with their illness, develop peer support, learn about healthy lifestyles and promote their child's emotional wellbeing. An expected outcome is that mothers' mood levels will improve, evidenced by scores on the Patient Health Questionnaire 9 (PHQ9) and generalised anxiety disorder (GAD) screening tools.