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Special Report: Practice: Mental Health - Northamptonshire Parent Infant Partnership (NorPIP)

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Provides intense psychotherapy to help parents form a more secure bond with their under-twos, reducing their risk of developing mental health problems

? Provides intense psychotherapy to help parents form a more secure bond with their under-twos, reducing their risk of developing mental health problems

? Trains professionals in identifying attachment difficulties between parents and children and helping them build more secure bonds

? Is developing Northamptonshire’s multi-agency Early Help Mental Health Consortium, with the aim of providing routine support pathways for pregnant women at risk of experiencing attachment difficulties

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Future in Mind, the 2015 report setting out a vision for transformed child and adolescent mental health services, emphasises the link between parent and children’s mental health, calling for every birthing unit to have a specialist perinatal mental health clinician by 2017 and for an expansion of programmes to strengthen parent-infant attachment. It cites 2014 research findings from the London School of Economics and Political Science showing perinatal mental health problems costing the UK £8.1bn a year, with three-quarters relating to negative impacts on the child.

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