How Healthcare Services Reduce the Effects of Postnatal Depression Experience on Attachment and Mother-Child Relationship

Scope of the Problem

The whole portion of this topic is to describe and explain what mothers experience having a diagnosis and depressive symptoms means in their lives and what interventions are available to help reduce these symptoms and also preventative initiatives.

Service User Experience
This section of the topic will describe the issues such as lack of professional and social support network, which affects their psychological and psychosocial development.
The importance of being made aware of service user experience can have a positive effect on improving interventions.
Without knowing what service users experience of being labelled with postnatal depression, there will be difficulty in implementing services for service users.
Service user experience is also integrated with service user involvement which will later be discussed later in the forthcoming sections.

Professional and Social Support Network
Firstly one of the factors that depressed mothers experience from postnatal depression, is the lack of support from family and mental health professionals.
McMurray and Clendon (2011) explains lack of social support from family and friends contributed to postnatal depression. Even a lack of maternal support from service users’ mothers can primarily have a negative impact
This means that it is important that mothers’ welfare are at the centre of service user experience, and as Galatzer-Levy et al (2009) believes, social support network can actually reduce the experience of symptoms.
Barry and Jenkins (2007) explains and demonstrates the ways that service users can benefit from family members; reduces isolation and even postnatal depression.

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...uctant to receive professional help, Walsh (2009) adds that they may also face the prospect of being labelled due to them experiencing a mental illness. Therefore this implicates the planning of mental health services.

Conclusion
Postnatal depression not only affects mothers, but they also negatively contribute to their children’s mental health and psychological wellbeing; most notably attachment and bonding which breaks the mother and child emotional, psychological interactions. Additionally the symptoms can have negative effect on the bonding processes between mothers and their children including the children’s cognitive and behaviour development.
Furthermore, Pierangelo and Giuliani (2008) believes children are likely to develop attachment disorders themselves, in particularly emotional and behaviour disorders; this can lead to long term mental health illnesses.