PIMH Links
The following are links which you may find useful:
| The Brazelton Institute - The focus of the Brazelton Institute is on the health and development of the newborn infant. The Institute offers training in the use of the Brazelton Scale, a comprehensive newborn behavioral assessment tool developed by Dr. T. Berry Brazelton and his colleagues. | Click here | |
| Brazelton Touchpoints Center - The Brazelton Touchpoints Center at Children's Hospital Boston is an educational institute founded by T. Berry Brazelton that offers health, early care and education, and social service professionals a unique approach to pediatric and child development. | Click here | |
| British Association of Perinatal Medicine - The constitutional aim of the British Association of Perinatal Medicine is to improve the standard of perinatal care in the British Isles. | Click here | |
| Childcare Choices - This website aims to provide parents with good quality information and advice about the types of childcare available, how to find and choose childcare, how to get help with the costs of childcare and options for time off work. | Click here | |
| Dad Info - from pregnancy, birth and babies to sex, money and work, we've got the information you need to bring up happy, healthy children. | Click here | |
| Early Years Foundation Resources - Dfes resources | Click here | |
| Elaine Hanzak - For many people the journey of pregnancy and motherhood is a very delightful and rewarding experience. However, the birth of my longed-for child lead to a traumatic route into the mental health services, for the first time in my life. | Click here | |
| Family Caring Trust - Charity supporting parents by providing practical resources to improve family relationships. | Click here | |
| Family Links - The Nurturing Programme provides an excellent framework for building children's social, emotional and behavioural skills in Early Years, Primary, Special Schools and some Secondary settings. | Click here | |
| Family and Parenting Institute - FPI's aim is the wellbeing of children and families and to achieve this, we carry out research and policy work to find out what matters to families and parents. We develop ideas to improve the services families use and to improve the environment in which children grow up. We work to inform policymakers and public debate and we develop practical resources for people working with families. | Click here | |
| Health-led parenting support - In England the intervention is called the Family Nurse Partnership (FNP) and the Government has been running it as a pilot in 10 areas since March 2007. | Click here | |
| Health Visitors - landing page for parenting information for parents of infants & toddlers including children 0-5 years | Click here | |
| Human Givens Publishing The human givens approach to psychology, pscyhotherapy and education: information on human givens therapy & publications available online including books on: depression, anxiety, addiction, anger, psychology and more | Click Here | |
| Improving Perinatal Mental Health Care - an article from Nursing Standard | Click Here | |
| Jan-net Ltd - Jan-net Ltd. Keeping You in the Loop. Networks are open to anyone with an interest | Click here | |
| KEPEU - Keele perinatal mental health education unit | Click here | |
| Maternity Action - Links to Maternity information and advice for pregnant women. Information on Maternity Law, Maternity rights and benefits and much more. | Click here | |
| Mellow Parenting - This website is designed to inform people about Mellow Parenting, and how to be trained to use the programme. | Click here | |
| Mumsnet - parenting information and product reviews | Click here | |
| National Academy for Parenting Practitioners - The National Academy for Parenting Practitioners will support the training of a range of professionals, including social workers, clinical psychologists, community safety officers and youth justice workers. | Click here | |
| National Collaborating Centre for Women's & Children's Health - our aim is to improve the health of women and children by developing the best evidence-based guidelines for the NHS in England and Wales | Click here | |
| National Organisation on Fetal Alcohol Syndrome - NOFAS-UK is committed to helping individuals with Foetal Alcohol Spectrum Disorder (FASD), their families and carers. | Click here | |
| Netmums - a unique local network for Mums (or Dads), offering a wealth of information on both a national and local level. | ||
| Neuro-Psychoanalysis - Welcome to the International Neuro-Psychoanalysis Centre, the Internatonal Neuro-Psychoanalysis Society and the journal Neuro-Psychoanalysis | Click here | |
| NICE Guidance - Antenatal and postnatal mental health: clinical management and service guidance | Click here | |
| NHS Education for Scotland - Nursing and midwifery mental health | Click Here | |
| Nurse Family Partnership - American website helping first time parents succeed | Click here | |
| Parents as First Teachers - We train professionals to work on a one to one basis with parents and their children, pre-birth to 5 years, using the Parents as Teachers programme delivered in the home or other appropriate setting. | Click here | |
| Parental Mental Health and Child Welfare Network - The Parental Mental Health and Child Welfare Network is a development Network set up to promote joint working between social care and health staff working with parents with mental health problems or their children. | Click here | |
| Parenting UK - We are the UK national body for people who work with parents. | Click here | |
| Parenting Pods - Word about just how successful these first trials were is already getting around and now other local councils, all over the country, want to set up HG Parenting Pods, organised and run by fully trained and accredited HG practitioners. | Click here | |
| Parentline Plus - Parentline Plus is a national charity that works for, and with, parents. | Click here | |
| PEAL - To support practitioners to encourage and develop parental involvement in children's early learning, PEAL training and resource materials have been produced, based on the key elements of the PEAL model; authentic relationships, communication and partnership. | Click here | |
| PEEP - PEEP supports parents and carers in their role as children's first and most important educators. | Click here | |
| PIPPIN - (Parents In Partnership - Parent Infant Network) is a national charity whose main aim is to maintain and improve the emotional health of families through one of the most critical stages in people's lives - the period surrounding the birth of a new baby. | Click here | |
| PND Training - We provide training in the detection and management of Postnatal Depression to Health Visitors and other health professionals. | Click here | |
| Royal College of Midwives - The RCM is the only trade union and professional organisation run by midwives for midwives. It is the voice of midwifery, providing excellence in professional leadership, education, influence and representation for and on behalf of midwives. | Click here | |
| Solihull Care Trust - The Solihull Approach - The Solihull Approach is an integrated model of working, open learning resource packs and training programme for care professionals working with families babies, children and young people who are affected by emotional and behavioural difficulties. | Click here | |
| The Association for Infant Mental Health - AIMH UK is an interdisciplinary association that promotes education, research and study of the effects of mental emotional and social development during infancy | Click here | |
The Centre for Child Mental Health Their aim is to support you vital skills, underpinned by the latest research from psychology and brain science. | Click Here | |
| The Centre for Parent and Child Support - The Centre for Child and Parent Support. We aim to help facilitate the development of holistic and effective child and family services through theory- and evidence-based practice within all health, social care, education and voluntary agencies. | Click here | |
| The Incredible Years - The Incredible Years are research-based, proven effective programs for reducing children's aggression and behavior problems and increasing social competence at home and at school. | Click here | |
| The Marcé society - The principal aim of the society is to promote, facilitate and communicate about research into all aspects of the mental health of women, their infants and partners around the time of childbirth. | Click here | |
| The Perinatal Project - Provides links for professionals in maternal child health | Click Here | |
| Social Perspectives Network - The Social Perspectives Network is a unique coalition of service users / survivors, carers, policy makers, academics, students, and practitioners interested in how social factors both contribute to people becoming distressed, and play a crucial part in promoting people's recovery. | Click here | |
| Triple P - Whether you're a parent, a practitioner or an organisation that works with parents, the international award winning Triple P - Positive Parenting Program, backed by over 25 years of clinically proven, world wide research, has the answers to your parenting questions and needs. | Click here | |
| Wellbeing of Women - WellBeing of Women is the only national charity funding vital research into all aspects of women's reproductive health | Click here |