| 1.
| Evaluate the research to determine factors that inhibit positive parenting and can cause mental health illness that leads to undesirable parenting. |
| 2.
| Assess the need for practitioners to be empathetic and supportive of parents' social and emotional wellbeing in order to assist them to build resilience and capacity to provide a responsive and nurturing environment for their infant or child. |
| 3.
| Appraise the effects of mental health illness on parenting and infant/child growth and development |
| 4.
| Critically reflect on professional practice approaches to perinatal psychosocial screening, care, referral and treatment for parents/families |
| 5.
| Analyse the effects of social substance use in families and critically examine the psychology behind why people turn to substance abuse to cope with reality. |
| 6.
| Integrate knowledge of mental health illness sequalae in the identification of parental mental health status particularly after birth trauma, bereavement and post- traumatic stress, to ensure appropriate referral and a multidisciplinary team approach to mental health care and parenting. |
