Research & News
The strength of Pregnancy to Parenthood’s clinical practice is our evidence-based approach to parent and infant mental health interventions.
Our evidence-based, research-informed approach ensures all our services provide families with world’s best mental health care interventions.
Research Publications from Pregnancy to Parenthood
Matacz, R., Byrne, S., Nosaka, S., Priddis, L., Finlay-Jones, A., Lim, I., Bloxsome, D., Newman-Morris, V. (2024) Evaluation of the Pregnancy to Parenthood program: A dyadic intervention for mothers with perinatal mental disorders and their infants. Infant Mental Health Journal.
Research supporting Perinatal and Infant Mental Health
Matacz, R., Byrne, S., Nosaka, S., Priddis, L., Finlay-Jones, A., Lim, I., Bloxsome, D., Newman-Morris, V. (2024) Evaluation of the Pregnancy to Parenthood program: A dyadic intervention for mothers with perinatal mental disorders and their infants. Infant Mental Health Journal.
Lim, I., Newman-Morris, V., Hill, R., Hoehn, E., Kowalenko, N., Matacz, R., & Sundram, S. (2022). You can’t have one without the other: The Case for integrated perinatal and infant mental health services. Australian & New Zealand Journal of Psychiatry, 00048674221083874.
Matacz, R., & Priddis, L. (2022). “Yes, the ‘terrible twos’ are full-on – but let’s look at things from a child’s perspective”. The Conversation.
Matacz, R., Priddis, L., & Wedge, K. (2021). Shake, Rattle and Roll: Reorienting a System and Co-Creating a “Whole of Organization” Community of Reflective Practice. ZERO TO THREE Journal, 41(Supp.).
Kiely, D. and Fitzgerald, H. and Matacz, R. and Priddis, L. and Bayes, S. and Barratt-Pugh, C. & Pooley, J. (2019) Better together: supporting perinatal and infant mental health services. Perth, WA.
Matacz, R., & Aksakoğlu, Y. (2018) Knitting an International Network in the Infancy and Early Childhood Field: International Perspectives of the ZERO TO THREE Fellowship 2016–2018. ZERO TO THREE, 38(4), 67-69.
Coo, S., Somerville, S., Matacz, R., & Byrne, S. (2018). Development and preliminary evaluation of a group intervention targeting maternal mental health and mother–infant interactions: a combined qualitative and Case series report. Journal of Reproductive and Infant Psychology, 36(3), 327-343.
Matacz, R., & Priddis, L. (2016). Building Competency in Infant Mental Health Practice: The Edith Cowan University Pregnancy to Parenthood Clinic. ZERO TO THREE, 37(1), 14-21.
Priddis, L. E., Matacz, R., & Weatherston, D. (2015). Building a Workforce Competency Based Training Program in Infant/Early Childhood Mental Health. Infant Mental Health Journal, 36(6), 623-631.
Matacz, R., & Priddis, L. (2015). Responding to the identified need to build workforce capacity in Infant Mental Health: Launch of the AAIMHI WA Competency Guidelines® in Western Australia. Perspectives in Infant Mental Health, 23(3), 15-18.
