Webinar: Postpartum Psychosis with Action on Postpartum Psychosis and Cardiff University researchers

NCMH was pleased to host this webinar which is the third of a series of new webinars on women's mental health, sponsored by the Section of Women's Mental Health of the European Psychiatric Association and organised by Mehlowa C.I.C, a charitable organization for CME in women's mental health.
This webinar:
For this topic the Section of Women's Mental Health warmly welcomed Professor Ian Jones, Director of the National Centre for Mental Health in Wales, and his research team at Cardiff University. This team is conducting world-leading research into the genetic mechanisms and clinical characteristics of severe affective psychosis after childbirth. Their newest research findings will be presented in this webinar and what implications they have for clinical practice.
We are also very pleased that the charity Action on Postpartum Psychosis (APP), a collaborative project run by women who have experienced postpartum psychosis, participated in the programme and will provide valuable and important insights into lived experiences.
The event was funded by an educational grant “Innovation for All” from Cardiff University awarded to Dr Marisa Casanova Dias.
Aims of the webinar:
We hope that the webinar will further delegates' awareness and understanding of :
- recent research supporting a category of affective psychosis that is only linked to childbirth
- the consequences that the new findings have for classification systems and the management of women at risk of affective psychosis after childbirth
- the challenging circumstances and severe risks that acute severe affective psychoses can present with after childbirth and how to successfully manage them
- the perspectives of women with lived experiences and how these can contribute to improved delivery of mental health care for these conditions
Presentations:
1. Title: Lived experience of postpartum psychosis
Speaker: Dr Sally Wilson, National Training Coordinator, Action on Postpartum Psychosis, UK. www.app-networ...
2. Title: Research underpinnings of postpartum psychosis
Speaker: Professor Arianna Di Florio, Division of Psychological Medicine and Clinical Neurosciences, Cardiff University, UK. www.cardiff.ac...
3. Title: Key implications for clinical management
Speaker: Dr Marisa Casanova Dias, Clinical Academic Psychiatrist, Division of Psychological Medicine and Clinical Neurosciences, Cardiff University, UK. www.cardiff.ac...
Panel discussion:
The webinar ends with a panel discussion with the speakers, Prof Ian Jones, Dr Jess Heron (Chief Executive Officer, Action on Postpartum Psychosis) and Dr Angelika Wieck (Consultant Perinatal Psychiatrist and Honorary Senior Lecturer, University of Manchester, past Chair of the Section of Women’s Mental Health, European Psychiatric Association).