# Mental health and support

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Browse, care area: Mental health  

## In plain language

Pages about mood in pregnancy and after birth: how it is checked, and the talking therapies, medicines and peer support that exist.

## Technical summary

Navigation grouping for perinatal mental health: screening, psychological therapies, drug treatments and peer support, filed here with part\_of. It is a way to browse. It makes no statement about whether anything in it works.

## Connected pages

- Includes: Perinatal depression (mother) (`maternal:perinatal-depression`)
- Includes: Postpartum depression (mother) (`maternal:postpartum-depression`)
- Includes: Postpartum psychosis (mother) (`maternal:postpartum-psychosis`)
- Includes: Psychiatry access lines for obstetric clinicians (MCPAP for Moms model) (`maternal:idea-perinatal-psychiatry-access-programmes`)
- Includes: Counselling to prevent perinatal depression (`maternal:perinatal-depression-prevention-counselling`)
- Includes: Thinking Healthy Programme (CBT by community health workers) (`maternal:thinking-healthy-programme`)

## Provenance

Content hash: 43fda624fdfba4dfb124769d2f43a5bdb85915f24e3792ab318fed86f681cc7f
Last substantive edit: 2026-10-14
Evidence last checked: Not recorded