For: providers who support new parents including midwives, counsellors, Plunket nurses, GPs and social workers.
What: The book contain information about postnatal depression, anxiety, breastfeeding, loss and grief, parenting in a strange land and caring for the carers and a chapter on refugee and migrant women in New Zealand.
Why: About 12,500 New Zealand women are affected by perinatal anxiety and depression, ranging from mild to extreme. Women from migrant and refugee backgrounds are an “at risk” group.
Published by: Perinatal Anxiety and Depression Aotearoa (PADA).
Launched in May 2018
For more information about the book, the price and how to access:
Contact: Treena Cooper
PO Box 13010, Johnsonville, 6440, Level 2, 21-29 Broderick Rd, Johnsonville, 6027, Wellington, New Zealand.
Ph: 04 461 6318 or Cell: 021 024 82123
Email: office@pada.nz
Website: www.pada.nz
Office hours 9 am - 2.30 pm Monday - Friday (Closed Thursday)
Perinatal Anxiety and Depression Aotearoa (PADA)
May 2018