Aims of the Faculty for Perinatal Psychology

Aims:

1. To provide a forum primarily for Clinical Psychologists, but also for other professionals, who work with women who are pregnant, in labour, or in the postnatal period and their partners, children, and extended family.

2. To provide support for this group of professional colleagues who span specialties (eg. Health Psychology, Mental Health) and client groups (e.g. Adult, Child) in order to promote and develop psychological services within services concerned with the perinatal period.

3. To support the expansion of a knowledge base in Perinatal Psychology via training, research, and sharing examples of best practice.

4. To promote Perinatal Psychology, via links with regional training schemes, and liaison with other relevant academic and professional bodies.

5. To provide a forum for sharing advice on setting up, promoting or protecting psychology provision within perinatal services.

6. To develop links with other professional groups and service user groups who share an interest in the perinatal care of women and their families.

7. To advise and respond on both a local and national level to the development of policy impacting upon our client group.