Enhancing Women's Wellbeing During Matrescence, Motherhood, and Perinatal Transitions

Guided by research and occupational therapy practices, this evidence-based text maps how occupational therapists and the allied health collective can holistically promote women's health, wellbeing, and self-efficacy during matrescence - the bio-psycho-social-political-spiritual-developmental journey and rite of passage of mother-becoming.

Dr Hannah Slootjes is an Australian occupational therapist and academic ('pracademic'), and Lecturer in Occupational Therapy at La Trobe University, with additional qualifications in literature, behavioural studies, and fine art. Dr Slootjes completed a PhD in 2022 exploring the occupational therapist's role in perinatal health, and has a special interest in women's and girls' health, perinatal transitions, matricentric feminism, motherhood, and matrescence.