Publish date: 13 June 2022
Infant Mental Health Week takes place from 13 to 19 June and highlights the importance of babies’ social and emotional development during the first 1001 days of their life.
The theme for this year’s Infant Mental health week, is ‘understanding early trauma’ and aims to focus attention on babies’ whose mental health is most at risk.
It also seeks to highlight the way secure, nurturing parent-infant relationships protect children from the impacts of early adversity. This week BABs will co-delivering a social media campaign with the Early Years service, Local Maternity Services and the Violence Reduction Teams to get the message out across the Mersey Care footprint, that our mental health starts at birth and how best we can support and build our childrens resilience.
Consultant Clinical Psychologist and PIMHS Service Lead, Dr Lisa Marsland said: “When we look at our babies today, it is sometimes hard to see how within the blink of an eye they will become the new kids on the block…our future teens on the street and not long after that - our Parents of tomorrow. We need to be investing in our future and putting money in the pot for future generations to come’.