This programme has been designed to inform health visitors about the purpose, structure and content of the ‘Emotional Wellbeing Visits’ guide for practice. It aims to ensure that health visitors are confident and competent in using an evidence-based integrated assessment and intervention framework to underpin the support they offer to families in the perinatal period. The programme is offered selectively to other professional groups – ask for more information.
National guidance states that women with common mental health problems should receive evidence-based psychological interventions in the perinatal period (NICE, 2014). Integrating mental health care into routinely delivered care provided by health visitors for women during the perinatal period is likely to be economically beneficial (Bauer et al, 2024). The Emotional Wellbeing Visits framework and guide for practice for health visitors is based on evidence of acceptability, feasibility and effectiveness (Lowenhoff et al, 2019). This provides health visitors with a clear, structured approach to supporting family emotional wellbeing, integrates perinatal and infant mental health care within their services, and ensures parity of esteem with physical health care.
On completion of this programme, participants will:
- Understand why the recommendations in the 2014 version of the NICE guideline in antenatal and postnatal mental health provided the catalyst for change to health visiting perinatal mental health practice
- Understand the rationale for the development of an integrated assessment and intervention framework and the structure, process and content of the ‘Emotional Wellbeing Visits’ guide for practice
- Have explored practice pertaining to psychosocial assessment, psychoeducation and assessment
- Appreciate some of the challenges encountered in identifying and supporting parents with mental health problems
- Have been introduced to some basic strategies that might help to promote family emotional wellbeing
- Understand the importance of the therapeutic alliance and the therapeutic contract
- Appreciate some of the challenges in tailoring strategies to the needs, preferences and circumstances of families
- Have expanded their repertoire of strategies that help to promote family emotional wellbeing
- Understand the importance of measuring satisfaction, progress and outcomes.
Types of training
Champion
The Champions model of training is excellent for sustainability and growing the capacity of a workforce to meet its own needs for future training. Following training, the Champions can use resources provided to undertake a cascade of awareness training to colleagues (where agreed locally).
The aim of the programme is to prepare participants as Champions in Emotional Wellbeing Visits (EWV), equipping them to implement the EWV framework and cascade training to colleagues.
Who are iHV EWV Champions?
iHV EWV Champions are place-based health visitor leaders who seek opportunities to strengthen health visitor interventions to support family emotional health and wellbeing. They have relevant clinical experience and a robust knowledge of the latest evidence base around psychologically-informed interventions to improve perinatal and infant mental health. Specifically, they are confident and competent in using the EWV evidence-based integrated assessment and intervention framework to underpin the care they offer to families with mild to moderate perinatal mental health needs, or who do not meet thresholds for diagnosis. EWV Champions are equipped to cascade EWV training to colleagues, influence stakeholders and services regarding the clinical- and cost-effectiveness of EWV, identify local gaps in services, and improve pathways of support available to families.
By the end of this training, practitioners will be able to:
- Articulate the rationale for the development of an integrated assessment and intervention framework and the structure, process and content of the ‘Emotional Wellbeing Visits’ guide for practice
- Describe the theory and practice pertaining to an integrated biopsychosocial assessment
- Demonstrate the importance of the therapeutic alliance and the therapeutic contract
- Outline some of the challenges encountered in identifying and supporting parents with mental health problems, and how to work in partnership and tailor strategies to the needs, preferences and circumstances of families
- Demonstrate a repertoire of evidence-based psychologically -informed strategies that help to promote family emotional wellbeing
- Utilise evidence-based tools to measure parental satisfaction, progress and outcomes of the EWV intervention
- Articulate the role of the iHV EWV Champion
- Access all EWV Champion resources (PowerPoint presentations, films, evaluations, certificates) to support them to deliver an awareness-level cascade.
This training programme prepares participants to undertake a ‘Champion’ role, equipping them with materials to deliver a cascade of multi-agency 2-day awareness level training for colleagues using materials we provide.
In addition, all participants have access to iHV Champions’ quarterly virtual Forums and Bulletins to maintain their confidence and competence. Access is granted for 2 years following training and can be renewed for a small fee following this period.
The programme is delivered as:
- Private events
- iHV hosted events
🏷️ Cost: £550 (iHV Member) / £600 (Non-member)
🕒 Duration: 2 Days
👥 Suitable for anyone with:
- A passion for perinatal and infant mental health and opportunities to share this
- Skill in creating, facilitating and supporting a positive learning environment
- The ability to organise and deliver a cascade of the PIMH-awareness training package (if agreed locally)
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Awareness
The Awareness format of training is excellent for growing knowledge and confidence across the workforce. The Awareness training aims to offer the same high- quality learning experience as our Champions training, to support participants to develop their understanding of the assessment and intervention framework so that they can apply it in practice.
Following training, the participants receive access to resources for consolidation of their own learning only so that they can implement the framework with selected families. There is no access to materials to support a cascade of Awareness training (see Champions for this format of training).
This training programme is designed for participants own Continuing Professional Developments to equip them to use the assessment and intervention framework to support families who may need emotional wellbeing visit (“listening visit”) support . It covers the content described in the main page with a pace of delivery, activities and depth of discussions that vary from our Champions format for this popular training. Note: there is no cascade of training associated with this format.
The programme is delivered as:
- Private events - costs available on request
(note we are not currently offering iHV hosted events with individually bookable places for this training)
