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A 32-year-old woman attends her general practitioner for the six-week postnatal check with her healthy son. She says she is coping, sleeping when he sleeps and enjoying him, and she is dressed appropriately and makes easy eye contact. She has no psychiatric history. Her Edinburgh Postnatal Depression Scale is scored in the waiting room and totals 9. On the final item she has ticked that the thought of harming herself has come to her sometimes in the past week. Which one of the following should the general practitioner do at this consultation?