10 Week Perinatal Mental Health Training Series

This 10 week series offers a forum to learn from an experienced perinatal mental health specialist, delving into weekly topic areas through training and case study discussions. 

This training is suitable for all mental health practitioners. The training groups require a 10 week long commitment. Each session will be 1.5 hours long and will consist of training on a specific PMAD topic. There will be a focus on a case study related to the week’s topic in order to highlight and incorporate the knowledge and skills learned through the reading and the training.

Dates and times:  9:00 – 10:30am, Wednesdays:

October 12, 19, 26

November 2, 9, 16, 23, 30

December 7, 14, 2022

Location: Zoom

Trainers: Mia Edidin, LICSW and guest speakers

Continuing Education Units:

• 15 CEU’s approved for LICSWs, LMHCs, and LMFTs
• This Program has been approved for 15 CEUs for Licensed Social Workers, Mental Health Counselors and Marriage and Family Therapists by the Washington State Society for Clinical Social Work.
• 15 Contact hours available for RNs. Provider approved by the California Board of Registered Nursing, Provider Number 17084 for 15 contact hours
• This training is approved as an advanced course for the Postpartum Support International Certification in Perinatal Mental Health.
• Continuing Education is provided by Perinatal Support of Washington at the completion of the program.  CEUs are based on attendance (1.5 CEUs per meeting).
• For missed sessions, a comprehension test of 80% correct answers is required. Recordings will be available.

Course Outline:

Week 1 – Adjustment issues, maternal shoulds and shame issues in American society

Week 2 – Perinatal Depression

Week 3 –  Anxiety – Intrusive and scary thoughts, OCD, OCD and scary thoughts

Week 4 – Perinatal management of bipolar disorder and postpartum psychosis

Week 5 – Birth trauma

Week 6 – Medications during pregnancy and lactation

Week 7 – Perinatal loss: miscarriage, stillbirth, preparing for pregnancy after loss and risk for perinatal mood and anxiety disorders.

Week 8 – Breastfeeding

Week 9 – Supporting parents during and after the NICU

Week 10 – Special considerations for sexual abuse survivors and perinatal mood and anxiety disorders, birth issues and parenting issues. 

Learning Objectives:

• Understand how to accurately identify, assess and treat perinatal depression.
• Understand how to accurately identify, assess and treat perinatal anxiety.
• Understand how to accurately identify, assess and treat adjustment issues.
• Understand how to accurately identify, assess and treat perinatal bipolar disorder and postpartum psychosis.
• Understand how to accurately identify, assess and treat birth trauma.
• Understand when breastfeeding is protective and when it is a risk factor for perinatal mood and anxiety disorders.
• Understand how perinatal loss impacts the risk for perinatal mood and anxiety disorders.
• Understand the special considerations for perinatal medication management.
• Understand how to accurately identify, assess and treat sexual abuse survivors for perinatal mood and anxiety disorders.

Cost:

$412 General Registration

$335 PS-WA Member

$206 Current PS-WA Volunteer

Scholarship information:
Limited Scholarships available for Washington state providers who meet the following requirements:
1. Take 1 or more Medicaid (Apple Health) plans and
2. Agree to continue to take new clients with Apple Health plans for a year.
3. Work within communities who have historically been underserved and have the necessary connection to serve families in those communities.

Full and partial scholarships are available. To apply please follow this link to the application.
Deadline to apply: September 14, 2022

In the application you will be asked to write a brief statement about how this training will be used in your practice, how you plan to provide services to underserved communities, and how you hope this training will impact your community or community you serve. Please be sure to include details about how you meet the 3 criteria listed in the application.

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