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Paternal Perinatal Stress and its Impact on Infants and Children

Duration: 17 mins Publication Date: 24 Jul 2023 Next Review Date: 24 Jul 2026 DOI: 10.13056/acamh.24336

Description

In this Papers Podcast, Dr. Fiona Challacombe discusses her JCPP paper ‘Paternal perinatal stress is associated with children’s emotional problems at 2 years’. Fiona is the first author of the paper.

Learning Objectives

1. Why fathers have been largely left out of the picture in terms of parental mental health in pregnancy and post-partum, and why it is important to include them.
2. How the engagement of fathers in clinical services could be improved.
3. The impact of father’s mental health on infant and child development.
4. Does paternal emotional stress exert a different influence on infants and children in comparison to maternal emotional distress?
5. Implications of their findings for health care providers and child and adolescent mental health professionals.
6. The existing intervention strategies and targeted interventions that are found to work for paternal perinatal stress, and what more could be done.