{"id":2371,"date":"2022-11-02T15:03:56","date_gmt":"2022-11-02T15:03:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.pmhn.scot.nhs.uk\/?page_id=2371"},"modified":"2026-07-21T15:04:47","modified_gmt":"2026-07-21T14:04:47","slug":"care-pathways-community-perinatal-health-teams","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.nn.nhs.scot\/pmhn\/women-and-families-2\/access-to-specialist-care-in-scotland\/care-pathways-community-perinatal-health-teams\/","title":{"rendered":"The Scottish Perinatal Mental Health Care Pathways &#8211; Community Perinatal Mental Health Teams"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Pathway 3: What are Community Perinatal Mental Health Teams? How can they help me and my baby?<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-block-embed-youtube wp-embed-aspect-16-9 wp-has-aspect-ratio\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Pathway 3: What are Community Perinatal Mental Health Teams? How can they help me and my baby?\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/iIQFb-Vd_kI?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Community&nbsp;Perinatal&nbsp;Mental&nbsp;Health&nbsp;Teams (CPMHTs)&nbsp;are made up of professionals who specialise in the assessment, diagnosis and treatment of women affected by a moderate to severe mental illness in pregnancy or after childbirth, or when planning a pregnancy. They can provide you with a range of treatments suited to your needs, including talking therapies, medicines and help for mothers and babies together.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Links to more information<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><em><u>Please note<\/u><\/em><em>: PMHN Scotland cannot be responsible for the content of any external links provided.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.pmhn.scot.nhs.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/11\/2021\/06\/Care-Pathways-full.pdf\">Pathway 3: Specialist assessment and intervention for women with severe or complex mental health problems<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.rcpsych.ac.uk\/mental-health\/treatments-and-wellbeing\/what-are-perinatal-mental-health-services\">Royal College of Psychiatrists Leaflet \u2013 What are Perinatal Mental Health Services?<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p class=\"nhsuk-card__description\">Pathway 3: What are Community Perinatal Mental Health Teams? How can they help me and my baby? Community&nbsp;Perinatal&nbsp;Mental&nbsp;Health&nbsp;Teams (CPMHTs)&nbsp;are made [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"parent":1498,"menu_order":4,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-2371","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nn.nhs.scot\/pmhn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/2371","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nn.nhs.scot\/pmhn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nn.nhs.scot\/pmhn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nn.nhs.scot\/pmhn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nn.nhs.scot\/pmhn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2371"}],"version-history":[{"count":14,"href":"https:\/\/www.nn.nhs.scot\/pmhn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/2371\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3180,"href":"https:\/\/www.nn.nhs.scot\/pmhn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/2371\/revisions\/3180"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nn.nhs.scot\/pmhn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1498"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nn.nhs.scot\/pmhn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2371"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}