ABSTRACT
This chapter highlights the difficulties and challenges that women can face in the perinatal period, as well as how best to provide optimum care delivery. It focuses on the positive aspects of health, and to question what gives women the capacity or strength to maintain well-being despite the stressors they face. The chapter describes by Gill Thomson and colleagues they consider the current, albeit limited evidence, into post-traumatic growth following a traumatic birth women were able to forge new relationships and spiritual beliefs, and held altered world-view perspectives. It discusses how professionals need to understand, and have the appropriate skills and attitudes to effectively work with women's Stages of Change to leave an abusive partner. The chapter highlights how risk, psychosocial consequences and the implications of such have costs for women, infants, families, healthcare providers and society in general.
