This program will enhance a healthcare provider’s skills to assess, treat and manage mental health concerns in perinatal patients. The focus is to provide helpful tools and treatment strategies for ob/gyn’s, family practice, pediatric and psychiatric clinicians to utilize within their practice. This interactive program includes the full-day, in-person training, during which clinicians will have the opportunity to meet and sign-up for site-based learning and consultation time with their local Project TEACH reproductive psychiatrist. This event offers presentations by Project TEACH’s expert team of reproductive psychiatrist and psychologists, along with clinicians from ob/gyn and family medicine.

Project TEACH is funded by the New York State Office of Mental Health and all services and events, such as this intensive training, are offered at no-cost to
clinicians in New York State.

Tuition

This training program is funded by the NYS Office of Mental Health as part of Project TEACH. It is offered at no cost to physicians and clinicians affiliated with a practice that provides medical or psychiatric treatment to perinatal patients.

Learning Objectives

As a result of this program :

• Physicians/clinicians will be able to utilize validated screening tools which will enable them to improve their ability to detect perinatal mood and anxiety disorders.
• Physicians/clinicians will be able to utilize validated suicide risk assessment tools which will enable them to improve their ability to detect suicidal risk in their perinatal patients
• Physicians/clinicians will have increased knowledge of the risks/benefits/alternatives to the treatment of perinatal psychiatric illness which will enable them to improve informed consent and shared decision making with their patients.
• Physicians will receive up to date, evidence-based information about when, what, why, and how to use medications in perinatal patients.

Target Audience

New York State NYS Obstetrics/gynecology and family practice physicians, psychiatrists, midwives, doulas, nursing professionals, residents, and other primary care clinicians working with perinatal patients.