- Why fathers have been largely left out of the picture in terms of parental mental health in pregnancy and post-partum, and why it is important to include them.
- How the engagement of fathers in clinical services could be improved.
- The impact of father’s mental health on infant and child development.
- Does paternal emotional stress exert a different influence on infants and children in comparison to maternal emotional distress?
- Implications of their findings for health care providers and child and adolescent mental health professionals.
- The existing intervention strategies and targeted interventions that are found to work for paternal perinatal stress, and what more could be done.
