Best Practices in Prevention, Identification & Treatment of Perinatal Mood & Anxiety Disorders

This in-person training is open to professionals in WA state serving perinatal families.

Learn how to effectively identify and screen parents experiencing perinatal mood and anxiety disorders. This training takes place over 2 days and is appropriate for a range of providers, including OBs, pediatricians, midwives, RNs, social workers, mental health therapists, doulas, public health employees, home visitors, IBCLCs, and more.

Location:
Kadlec Regional Medical Center
888 Swift Blvd, Richland, WA 99352

Columbia Conference Rooms / 3^rd floor / Mountain Pavilion
Entrance: Vineyard Lobby (Main Hospital Entrance). It takes approximately 15 minutes to walk from the parking garage to the Vineyard Lobby and then to the Columbia Rooms.

Cost: FREE

Trainers: Lisa Malcolm, MSW, LICSW, PMH-C & Lyndsey Williams, MSW, LICSW, PMH-C

Dates & Time:
Wednesday-Thursday, May 28-29, 2025
9am-5pm PDT

Please Note:

• This training is similar to our Perinatal Mental Health for Home Visitors Training and our Promoting Parental Resilience Training. If you have attended either of these, please don’t register for this training as they cover similar content.
• To participate in this training you must attend live, the training will not be recorded.

This free training is offered by Perinatal Support WA through a grant from Strengthening Families Washington at the Department of Children, Youth, and Families (DCYF).

Objectives of this training:

• Understand the “real” transition to parenthood.
• Know the spectrum of perinatal mental health disorders.
• Know the risk factors for PMADs.
• Know key prevention strategies.
• Understand high risk populations and health disparities.
• Become knowledgeable about the impacts of perinatal mental health on families and communities.
• Know the components of a treatment plan.
• Be able to effectively talk about, and screen new/expectant parents for perinatal mood and anxiety disorders.
• Understand the impact of birth experiences on postpartum emotional health.
• Become knowledgeable about risk and symptoms for partners and fathers.
• Become knowledgeable about psychiatric medications during pregnancy and breastfeeding.
• Become knowledgeable about supporting families in the NICU
• Become knowledgeable about feeding issues and perinatal mental health.
• Understand the impact on infant and children.
• Understand impacts on partners and relationships.

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Continuing Education Credit:

• 12.5 CEUs approved for MSWs, MAs, MFTs.
• This Program has been approved for 12.5 CEUs for Licensed Social Workers, Mental Health Counselors and Marriage and Family Therapists by the Washington State Society for Clinical Social Work.
• 12.5 Contact hours approved for RNs: Provider approved by the California Board of Registered Nursing, Provider Number 17084 for 12.5 contact hours.
• At this time, this training is not certified by Postpartum Support International (PSI) to meet the requirements of PMH-C. We are in process of updating our certification with PSI for this training so that the training can go towards PMH-C in the future.

Questions regarding the training, please email: training@perinatalsupport.org

This is a live virtual training and a recording will not be sent out after the training, please only register if you are able to attend the training in its entirety.

Lisa Malcolm, MSW, LICSW, PMH-C is a licensed independent clinical social worker (LICSW) with over 20 years of experience in helping professions. A passionate advocate for birthing people experiencing perinatal mood and anxiety disorders, Lisa provides mental health treatment to survivors of pregnancy and infant loss, and families who have experienced traumatic birth; she holds a Perinatal Mental Health Certification (PMH-C) through Postpartum Support International. Lisa specializes in providing rural mental health care and collaborating with rural systems of care partners, providing consultation, collaboration, and training to support evidence-based provision of perinatal mental
health services.

Lyndsey Williams, MSW, LICSW, PMH-C (she/her) is a licensed clinical social worker (LICSW) located in Seattle, WA. She currently practices in Washington, Idaho, Maryland and Washington DC. She has worked in various areas of maternal child health since 2012 and has provided reproductive psychotherapy since 2017. She received her bachelor’s degree from Morgan State University and obtained her Masters in Social Work from University of Maryland Baltimore. She has been trained in various aspects of perinatal and conceiving partners’ mental health. She is perinatal mental health certified (PMH-C) through Postpartum Support International and Seleni Institute. Lyndsey focuses on empowerment with self-compassion and acceptance through life adjustments associated with reproductive experiences like pregnancy, infertility, endometriosis, pregnancy/infant loss etc. She uses her passion for writing blended with clinical expertise to create healing narrative therapy tools and help women tell their own stories. She provides training to direct care staff on women’s issues like perinatal mental health and domestic violence and anti-burnout wellness workshops. One of Lyndsey’s favorite quotes is from Maya Angelou: “You may not control all the events that happen to you, but you can decide not to be reduced by them.”