Infant-Parent Perinatal Service (IPPS) (Oxfordshire)
Overview
IPPS offers support to parents of any age or gender in the antenatal (from 12 weeks pregnant) and postnatal period (up to 12 months post-natal). We cover Oxfordshire.
The service is multi-professional and includes a senior clinical psychologist two community mental health nurses, a mental health practitioner, a child and adolescent psychotherapist in training and an assistant psychologist. Please note the clinicians do not work full-time.
How to Access this Service
Referrals can be made by any professional with a concern about a parent’s mental health. As a specialist service, with particular remits that will remain part of the person health record, it is important to obtain separate specific consent to refer to this service
When/Where?
IPPS offers support to parents of any age or gender in the antenatal (from 12 weeks pregnant) and postnatal period (up to 12 months post-natal) who are experiencing either or both:
• Parent-infant relationship difficulties such as concerns about bonding with their baby, difficulties adjusting to the parental role, negative feelings or self-doubt about themselves as a parent or negative experiences of and feelings about birth or pregnancy.
• Mild to moderate mental health difficulties related to being in the perinatal period, such as post-natal depression or current low mood, anxiety and panic attacks, post-traumatic stress disorder, obsessive compulsive disorder, and eating disorders, which are or might affect their parenting capacity or relationship with their baby.
Who is it for?
IPPS offers support to parents of any age or gender in the antenatal (from 12 weeks pregnant) and postnatal period (up to 12 months post-natal). We cover Oxfordshire.
