
Our monthly newsletter provides information about news from the project, resources for those affected, and interesting facts about “perinatal mental health”.
We look forward to every reader!


- Get involved instead of just watching: Forum Theatre and Healthy Minds
- Conferences
- Perinatal & Infant Mental Health Conference 2025 in Melbourne
- World Congress of Psychiatry 2025 in Prague
- DADSPACE: Support for fathers in early parenthood
- PANDA CHECKLIST: Online Self-Screening in the Perinatal Period
- Textbook “Psychotherapy in the Peripartum Period”
- 10 years of Women’s Networking Tyrol



- Review: Roundtable on PMH
- Review: QRMH10 in Budapest – We were there!
- Child-friendly Village report
- Young Perspectives on Parenting & Mental Health: Workshop
- Reality vs. social aspirations – an appeal
- Pressure, Doubts, Attributions – Three Fictitious Scenes on Parenthood
- Poster – “Not everything that hurts is visible”
- Art in Public Space: Solange by Katharina Cibulka
- Theatre that moves: Forum theatre according to Armin Staffler
- Symposium on Peripartum Crises

- Roundtable on PMI – an interdisciplinary case conference
- Preparation for the QRMH10 in Budapest
- March: Endometriosis Awareness Month
- What is endometriosis?
- Prevalence & Diagnosis
- Endometriosis and mental health
- Why is Endometriosis Awareness Month important?
- What to do if endometriosis is suspected?
- April: Sexual Assault Awareness Month
- What is sexualised violence?
- Figures & Reality – How widespread is sexualised violence?
- Prevention: Protection begins with education
- Why is awareness crucial?



- PhD position in our Healthy Minds project
- Paper: Perinatal and Infant Mental Health Care in Austria
- Planned awareness campaign
- Quality criteria for citizen science projects
- Parent counselling as part of the Parent-Child-Pass
- Project “TrueNTH” & Prostate Cancer Interventions
- Explaining crisis situations sensitively to children – This is what parents and caregivers should pay attention to

- Perinatal Mental Health Week 2024
- Movember – Rethinking men’s health
- Podcast: Fatherhood and the Challenge of Perinatal Depression
- Star Children
- Dealing with Loss & the Importance of Recognition & Memory
- Sternenkinder Symposium 2025
- Help Too Late: The Potential Tragedy of Untreated PMIs
- Loneliness during the Christmas season
- Help for the homeless in winter: cold telephone & heat package



- Implementation and Evaluation Workshop
- Healthy Minds at the ÖGPH Annual Conference
- Planned awareness campaign
- October – Breast Cancer Awareness Month
- Importance of early detection
- Pink Ribbon Campaign
- Support and resources
- Self-help group of Frühe Hilfen
- besserbehandelt.at

- Concepts for improving perinatal mental health in Tyrol:
- Establishment of a round table
- Development and implementation of an early detection tool
- Outreach psychological-psychiatric service
- Raising awareness of the issue of perinatal mental health
- Families under pressure
- Film recommendation – “Tully” (2018)



- Peer Support: “Identifying and synthesizing components of perinatal mental health peer support”
- Screening of fathers: “Towards effective screening for paternal perinatal mental illness: a meta-review of instruments and research gaps“
- Short film project on the topic of “bonding”
- No.Mother.Country. – When women don’t mother and mothers don’t create
- 8th Symposium on Perinatal Crises
- Planners, Checklists, and More: Whole Heart Maternal Mental Health
- App by Geborgen Wachsen
- Premature births and their challenges
- The Benefits of Occupational Therapy for Perinatal Mental Health

- Long Night of Research 2024
- “When Postpartum Packs a Punch” by Kristina Cowan
- “Und alle so still” by Mareike Fallwickl
- “Toxic Femininity” by Sophia Fritz
- Evaluation of co-design intervention to support children of mentally ill parents
- USA: Strategy to improve maternal mental health



- Podcast with Dr. Jean Paul
- Are depression screenings neglected?
- Lived Experience Design Project
- Parenthood – Innate or Learned?
- Real-world insights into the changes brought about by the arrival of a baby
- Mental health of pregnant migrant women
- Why women with a migrant background have an increased PMI risk
- ECald: Resources for Dealing with PMI & Migration Background

- Evaluation Report of Frühe Hilfen 2023
- Everything about cry babies
- Effects of lack of sleep
- Experiences of violence during childbirth
- Inclusion of maternal mental health in care



- Advisory Board Meeting
- Support for children with mentally ill parents
- Village Project
- Parents’ consultation hours
- Care for pregnant women in Tyrol
- Integrating perinatal care into our healthcare system

- Pre-Workshop
- Mental health information for adolescents
- Papainfo
- Mindful Return – Family & Career
- Peer Support at PMI
- UplusE project for early detection
- Myths and facts about PMI



- Overview of services in the field of perinatal mental health
- WORLD MENTAL HEALTH DAY
- Mental Health Day in Schools
- Mental hygiene in the cold season
- New S3 guidelines
- Needs-based education and self-care
- Regretting Motherhood

- 10 years of EX-IN in Tyrol
- Suicide Prevention Day 2023
- Lived experiences of depression
- How men feel whose partners become mentally ill after giving birth
- Screening of fathers is cost-effective



- Report on the use of mental health services around the perinatal period
- First aid for the soul
- RiseUp-PPD Guidelines
- Antidepressants for postpartum depression
- PMI & Loneliness
- Association between paternal depression and increased childhood depression risk
- Forest bathing & its benefits

- PANDA – Resources on the topic
- Responsibility for perinatal mental illnesses
- Perinatal crises – What does it mean?
- Baby Blues / Perinatal Depression, Anxiety & Obsessive-Compulsive Disorders / Perinatal Psychoses



- Perinatal Mental Health Podcasts
- Reform of the parent-child passport
- Men’s Mental Health Awareness Month
- International Paternal Mental Health Day
- Toxic Masculinity & Mental Illness
