The Jewish Women’s Foundation Teams Up with AHN to Train Perinatal Therapists to Support Maternal and Infant Mental Health

Grant Funding Supports Access to a Continuum of Maternal/Infant Behavioral Health Services

PITTSBURGH --The Jewish Women’s Foundation (JWF) has awarded Allegheny Health Network (AHN) Women’s Behavioral Health program (WBH), part of the AHN Psychiatry and Behavioral Health Institute, grant funding to support a ‘best-in-class’ integrative model of care where mother and baby can receive safe, symbiotic treatment in a comprehensive way that includes perinatal and behavioral health care.

For those faced with perinatal mood and anxiety disorders, research has shown that treatment should target the mother-infant relationship in addition to the mothers' depressive symptoms to improve the developing mother-child relationship.

According to one recent study, maternal postpartum depression (PPD) and mother-infant relationship dysfunction have reciprocal effects on each other and thus an in