Women’s Mental Health Services - King Edward Memorial Hospital

The Department of Psychological Medicine at King Edward Memorial Hospital is a women’s mental health service that specialises in the assessment and treatment of women’s mental health concerns related to or impacting on their gynaecological and/or obstetric medical conditions.

The Department of Psychological Medicine has expertise in the following women’s health areas:

• Enhancing emotional health for women; prevention and treatment of mood and anxiety disorders in the perinatal period.
• Adolescent and young mothers' emotional health
• Perinatal grief and loss
• Gynaecological health, including chronic pelvic pain and sexual dysfunction
• Adjustment to gynaecological cancers
• Preconception assessment regarding management of psychotropic medications in pregnancy for women with complex mental health issues.
• Partnering with KEMH antenatal services to provide co-ordinated mental health and obstetric care for women with serious mental health issues.
• Provision of state-wide teleconference consultation to mental health providers and women with serious mental illness at preconception and during the perinatal period
• Consultation and liaison services to Women and Newborn Drug and Alcohol Services, Neonatal Intensive Care Units at KEMH and PMH and Maternal Foetal Medicine Team.
• Best practice research in the field of women’s mental health
• Education in women’s mental health for health professionals.