All authors are either consultants, senior lecturers or research workers at the Institute of Psychiatry or the South London and Maudsley NHS Foundation Trust, both are part of King's College, London.

• Introduction; 1. Needs assessment Mike Slade; 2. The needs of women with mental health problems during pregnancy and the postnatal period Louise Howard and Veronica O'Keane; 3. The needs of severely mentally ill mothers with children Louise Howard and Katherine Hunt; 4. The impact of maternal mental illness on the developing child Malcolm Wiseman; 5. The development of the CAN-M Katherine Hunt and Louise Howard; 6. Guidance on rating Katherine Hunt and Louise Howard; 7. Scoring the CAN-M Katherine Hunt and Louise Howard; 8. Training for use of the CAN-M Katherine Hunt and Louise Howard; References; Index; Appendix 1. Coversheet for all versions of the Camberwell Assessment of Need for Mothers (CAN-M); Appendix 2. Camberwell Assessment of Need for Mothers (Clinical version) - CAN-M (C); Appendix 3. Camberwell Assessment of Need for Mothers (Research version) - CAN-M (R); Appendix 4. Camberwell Assessment of Need for Mothers (Short Appraisal Schedule version) - CAN-M (S); Appendix 5. CAN-M (C) Assessment summary score sheets; Appendix 6. CAN-M (R) Assessment summary score sheet; Appendix 7. Training overheads; Appendix 8. Training vignettes.