Discussion Paper: A Holistic Approach to Stepped Care in Perinatal Mental Health

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Written By Vani Jain

Stepped care is a concept for organizing mental health services that recognizes the full range of levels and types of supports, and how these may serve people with varying levels of need and readiness.

While a stepped care approach to mental health has been pursued in many jurisdictions, perinatal mental health is a unique context that warrants more specific discussion on how its concepts might be applied.

On July 22, 2022, the Daymark Foundation convened stakeholders to explore how to optimize and operationalize a stepped care approach to perinatal mental health. Based on that discussion, we have proposed a new, holistic framework for stepped care in perinatal mental health.

Vani Jain
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