Perinatal Mood Disorders: Diagnosis, Systemic Impacts and Treatment
Information
Date & Time
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Learning Objectives
Participants will be able to:
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Define and identify perinatal mood disorders.
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Describe the prevalence of perinatal mood and the associated risk factors and familial impacts.
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Recognize how to assess and diagnose perinatal mood disorders.
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Identify treatment options inclusive of collaboration.
Description
Perinatal mood disorders include baby blues, depression, anxiety, OCD, PTSD and psychosis. Perinatal depression is the most common complication of childbirth. Perinatal mood disorders impact every relationship: familial, community, work. This presentation will identify the range of mood disorders, assessment, risk factors, systemic impacts, and multiple treatment and therapy interventions.
Target Audience
- Counselor
- Louisiana Social Workers
- Louisiana Social Workers
- Louisiana Substance Abuse Counselors and Trainers
- Louisiana Substance Abuse Counselors and Trainers
- Marriage & Family Therapist
Presenters
Katherine works with individuals, couples, and families to address their different needs such as intimacy, stress, depression, and adapting to change. She works within the physical setting of a woman’s health clinic and have special focus on women’s health issues. She furthers this focus with medical family therapy. Medical family therapy is discernable from other forms of counseling by its purposeful attention to medical illness and its role in the personal life of the patients and the interpersonal life of the family.
Financially Sponsored By
- Louisiana Association for Marriage & Family Therapy