✨ It’s publication day! ✨

After what feels like the most impossibly long time (2 years, 9 months, and 12 days… but who’s counting?!) I’m so excited to share that Enhancing Women’s Wellbeing During Matrescence, Motherhood, and Perinatal Transitions is officially published today with Routledge!! Woo woo! A truly heartfelt thank you to the 64 incredible contributors, the reviewers, and community who made this possible. This is absolutely a dream come true ✨

I’ve read my copy twice now and am just floored with how proud I am of all of us for coming together to make this collection so broad. I can’t wait to see how it sparks new conversations and practice in the months ahead. I’m nervous, of course! But so excited ✨ And, on reflection, I also keep thinking how much more there is to say, and that each of the practice chapters really needs to be expanded on in individual books. Or perhaps, instead, we go all in for the next edition and bulk it up into a massive, more traditional textbook? I wonder what you will think when you read it…?

If you’re keen to buy a copy of this book, please go to the Routledge website. Due to temporary shipping issues, people in Australia and New Zealand can currently only purchase paperback or hardback copies through Booktopia.

A deep breath for me now, and time to see what happens next… ✨

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Author: Dr Hannah Slootjes (PhD)

I'm an occupational therapist, women's health researcher, academic, writer, mum, and passionate life learner. In 2022, I completed PhD exploring how OTs globally do, could or should work to promote health and maintain wellbeing for mothers during and after pregnancy, and matrescence. Titled, 'The Role of Occupational Therapists in Perinatal Health' my thesis introduced the Person-centered Occupational Model of Matrescence (POMM) to understand women's wellbeing from a human-centered approach, and the Functional Co-occupation Spectrum (FCS) for working with mother-infant dyads. I am currently teaching occupational therapy and public health students at La Trobe University, and writing a textbook about working with women during perinatal stages and matrescence based on my thesis (aiming for publication in 2024). I still love clinical practice, and work in women's health locally in Bendigo. After taking a year-long sabbatical to recover and re-energise after completing my PhD, I'm rolling up my sleeves and gearing up for the next life chapter! I'm still writing and teaching, and will be increasing practice-based supports for OTs from this website from May 2023. I am so looking forward to reconnecting with OTs practicing and researching in this space, and cannot wait to be part of the next phase of practice-based professional development!

2 thoughts on “✨ It’s publication day! ✨”

  1. Hannah, the biggest congratulations to you. It has been truly inspiring to witness your perseverance, knowledge, skill and critique in the creation of a book that will be an iconic text for OTs from this point on! This is the text I needed all those years ago as I embarked on this area of practice. Thank you so much for your commitment ✨
    Now time for that LOOOOONG exhale!

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    1. Thanks so much for your kind and supportive message, Sarah! I’m so relieved and delighted to hear that this book is just what you needed – I hope it’s still helps you now at this stage of your career to?!

      And yes. Definitely time to take a much needed breather ✨We’re on the other side now ✨

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