Thinking Healthy

Thinking Healthy is a program and intervention developed to address prenatal depression. The program is designed to provide support and improve mental health outcomes for pregnant women and new mothers. Grounded in evidence-based cognitive behavioral techniques that are recommended by the WHO’s mhGAP program, the goal of the Thinking Healthy program is to improve maternal mental health, enhance the mother-infant relationship, and contribute to overall family well-being.

Read more here:
Thinking Healthy: A manual for psychological management of perinatal depression (https://www.who.int/publications/i/item/WHO-MSD-MER-15.1)

Scaling-up psychological interventions in resource-poor settings: training and supervising peer volunteers to deliver the ‘Thinking Healthy Programme’ for perinatal depression in rural Pakistan (https://www.cambridge.org/core/journals/global-mental-health/article/scalingup-psychological-interventions-in-resourcepoor-settings-training-and-supervising-peer-volunteers-to-deliver-the-thinking-healthy-programme-for-perinatal-depression-in-rural-pakistan/55A1AE45EFF9BBA944669446ACE8F6F8)

Improving access to psychosocial interventions for perinatal depression in low- and middle-income countries: lessons from the field (https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/32516019/)