The team led by the Parent Infant Research Institute (PIRI) at Austin Health received the ‘Minister for Health's Award for improving maternal, child and family health' Read more...
Huge Costs of Perinatal Depression To Be Shouldered By Future Generations
PIRI researchers were among the first to point to the wider negative repercussions of perinatal depression and anxiety. A new health-economic analysis prepared by PwC, The cost of perinatal depression and anxiety in Australia, has just been released. Read more...
Parental mental health – a key factor in a child’s first 1000 days
PIRI is joining with ARACY and other partners in hosting the National Early Years Summit 2020, to ensure that parental mental health is a part of the blueprint for early childhood wellbeing the Summit will produce.
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Watch: Webinar delivered to Health Professionals on the Prevention and Treatment of Perinatal Mood Disorders
Watch this Webinar which is designed to review the impact of perinatal psychological distress and mood disorders and increase participants understanding of ways in which distress can be prevented, detected and treated. Read more...
Global Alliance Maternal Mental Health
The Global Alliance for Maternal Mental Health (GAMMH) is a coalition of international organisations committed to improving the mental health and wellbeing of women and their children in pregnancy and the first postnatal year (the ‘perinatal period’) throughout the world. PIRI’s Professor Jeannette Milgrom is on the steering committee of GAMMH in her role as Immediate Past President of the International Marcé Society for Perinatal Mental Health. Read more...
Motivational Interviewing Improves Help-seeking for Postnatal Depression and Anxiety
Motivational Interviewing Improves Help-seeking for Postnatal Depression and Anxiety. Results showed that training MCHNs in MI was feasible and valued. Read more...
PIRI continues to develop programs for treating mother-infant difficulties
Feasibility and pilot RCT studies of a therapeutic playgroup for mother experiencing postnatal mental health difficulties, showed that our CHUGS program was well-received by mums and produced significant benefits for mothers' mental health and the mother-infant relationship.
Psychological therapy more effective than medication for PND
In a randomised controlled trial, CBT was found to be more effective in the treatment of PND than sertraline, a commonly prescribed antidepressant, or a combination of the two treatment modalities.
Launch of the Global Alliance Maternal Mental Health
The Global Alliance Maternal Mental Health (GAMMH) was launched at the International Marcé Society Biennial Scientific Conference, Melbourne in September 2016. The GAMMH was led by Dr Alain...
Women four times more likely to recover from PND in our world-first trial of online treatment
Exciting results from our first controlled evaluation of the MumMoodBooster program have just been published in the Journal of Medical Internet Research.
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