Mental Health Resources for
Latinx Parents in the the Bay Area
For Health Practitioners
Health partners, please use these curated resources to continue to learn and grow in our ways to best serve our patients and take care of each other. (to edit)
With community strength,
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Relevant Literature
To fully understand and address this issue, we use a human rights framework to articulate how and why policy makers must take progressive action toward this goal. This commentary, written by an interdisciplinary and intergenerational team, employs personal and professional expertise to disrupt underlying assumptions about psychosocial aspects of the perinatal experience and reimagines a new way forward to facilitate well-being in the perinatal period.
This study aims to identify the effects of pharmacological and nonpharmacological interventions meant to treat (AMD) antepartum mental disorder.
The purpose of this paper is to (1) present an overview of MBC, its theoretical framework for services, and its clinical components, while highlighting the unique factors that differentiate this program from traditional outpatient treatment, and (2) present clinical outcome data utilizing scores from reliable and valid scales, including enrollment to discharge outcomes from 20 months of MBC operation following an initial year of pilot operation with a small number of women.
This study aims to investigate the impacts of introducing a population-based systems approach by looking at utilization rates of enhanced prenatal care services and overall healthcare services among medicaid-insured pregnant woman.
This study aims to identify the adequacy of perinatal care services for women with physical, sensory, and intellectual/developmental disabilities compared to those without disabilities.
This study found evidence in high-income countries to support that nonspecialist providers may be effective in preventing and treating perinatal depressive and anxiety symptoms, which suggests that integrating nonspecialist providers to deliver evidence-based counseling interventions has the potential to address the significant burden of perinatal depression and anxiety worldwide.
The purpose of this study is to investigate the effects of internet-based prenatal education interventions.
The purpose of this study was to examine the effectiveness of a coordinated perinatal mental health care model, focusing on socially-disadvantaged, ethno-racial minority women, with an intersectional-feminist perspective. The treatment model was grounded in intersectionality theory with the aim of addressing complex social vulnerability factors in the context of perinatal mental health treatment.
This review aims to study the benefits of primary care interventions by looking at randomized clinical trials (RCTs) and nonrandomized controlled intervention studies of interventions (eg, behavior-based, antidepressants, dietary supplements) that are meant to prevent perinatal depression, a major or minor depressive episode during pregnancy or up to 1 year after childbirth.
Article describes prevalence of perinatal mental health & implications of conditions. It also discussed barriers to access to health treatment — six policy opportunities are discussed.
Argues for the need for an extension of generic psychiatric services to include preconception care, and further investment into public health interventions, in addition to perinatal mental health services, potentially for women and men, to reduce maternal and child morbidity and mortality.
How COVID-19 impacted access to care, talked about an increase in depression and anxiety as well as the changes in access of care based on race/ethnicity
Nationwide Resources
Some organizations that have created coalitions or resources for health providers regarding perinatal and postnatal mental health.
Would you like to build your capacity to address perinatal depression and anxiety in your work? We offer a variety of learning options, live and self-paced, to help health care, mental health care and social service providers gain the skills needed to support the emotional well being of new and expectant families.