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Dr Koa Whittingham is a senior research fellow at The University of Queensland and a registered psychologist with specialisations in both clinical and educational\/developmental psychology. Her research focuses on three key interests: (1) parenting, (2) neurodevelopmental disabilities and (3) acceptance and commitment therapy (ACT) and compassion focussed therapy (CFT). She is particularly passionate about the application of ACT and CFT to parenting. Koa is the author of Becoming Mum, a self-help book for the transition to motherhood grounded in ACT and the first author of Acceptance and Commitment Therapy: The Clinician\u2019s Guide to Supporting Parents.<\/p>\n
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MotherCare is an ongoing program of research with the aim to build evidence for brief, online resources for mothers of infants grounded in compassion-focused therapy (CFT) and acceptance and commitment therapy (ACT) and tested in online randomised controlled trials (RCTs). In addition, the MotherCare research program includes a focus on understanding the relationships between birth, breastfeeding, maternal mental health and the mother-infant relationship. To date, mothers \u226424 months post-birth living in Australia and New Zealand have been recruited into three separate studies, with a fourth study in progress. Together, this program of research has documented the impacts of psychological flexibility and self-compassion in mothers of infants, and demonstrated the effect of brief, online resources grounded in compassion-focused therapy (CFT) and acceptance and commitment therapy (ACT) on maternal mental health, self-compassion, psychological flexibility, and breastfeeding satisfaction. Alongside targeted interventions, light-touch, universally deliverable interventions are an important part of care in the perinatal period.<\/p>\n
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Dr Koa Whittingham is a senior research fellow at The University of Queensland and a
registered psychologist with specialisations in both clinical and educational\/developmental
psychology. Her research focuses on three key interests: (1) parenting, (2)
neurodevelopmental disabilities and (3) acceptance and commitment therapy (ACT) and
compassion focussed therapy (CFT). She is particularly passionate about the application of
ACT and CFT to parenting. Koa is the author of Becoming Mum, a self-help book for the
transition to motherhood grounded in ACT and the first author of Acceptance and
Commitment Therapy: The Clinician\u2019s Guide to Supporting Parents.
MotherCare: Building online resources for mothers of infants one
study at a time.
MotherCare is an ongoing program of research with the aim to build evidence for brief,
online resources for mothers of infants grounded in compassion-focused therapy (CFT) and
acceptance and commitment therapy (ACT) and tested in online randomised controlled trials
(RCTs). In addition, the MotherCare research program includes a focus on understanding the
relationships between birth, breastfeeding, maternal mental health and the mother-infant
relationship. To date, mothers \u226424 months post-birth living in Australia and New Zealand
have been recruited into three separate studies, with a fourth study in progress. Together, this
program of research has documented the impacts of psychological flexibility and self-
compassion in mothers of infants, and demonstrated the effect of brief, online resources
grounded in compassion-focused therapy (CFT) and acceptance and commitment therapy
(ACT) on maternal mental health, self-compassion, psychological flexibility, and
breastfeeding satisfaction. Alongside targeted interventions, light-touch, universally
deliverable interventions are an important part of care in the perinatal period.<\/p>\n","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-118","page","type-page","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/qpimhs.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/118","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/qpimhs.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/qpimhs.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qpimhs.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qpimhs.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=118"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/qpimhs.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/118\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":465,"href":"https:\/\/qpimhs.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/118\/revisions\/465"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qpimhs.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/198"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/qpimhs.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=118"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}