In-Person

Foundations in Perinatal Mental Health: Your Role in Support, Screening and Treatment

Led by Project TEACH’s expert team of reproductive psychiatrists, psychologists and social workers, this in-person training program is designed to enhance your skills in supporting, assessing and managing mental health concerns in perinatal patients/individuals.

We encourage all who work with perinatal individuals to attend this program. Course content will directly apply to the following professions: Maternal health prescribers (e.g., OB-GYN, Family Medicine, Pediatrics), nurses, social workers, lactation counselors, and community and allied health professionals. 

Course sessions include:

    • Understanding mental health symptoms through a biopsychosocial lens
    • Engaging perinatal individuals in sensitive conversations
    • Epidemiology, screening and assessment of perinatal mood and anxiety disorders
    • Psychotherapy and pharmacological approaches to depressive and anxiety disorders
    • Suicide risk assessment and management in non-mental health settings • Assessment and management of bipolar disorder during the perinatal period
    • Treatment of Insomnia and ADHD in perinatal patients
    • Perinatal mental health and social support services

    Participants of this training program will be able to:

      • Increase their skill in discussing mental health symptoms with perinatal individuals and enhance their motivation and commitment to change.
      • Know how to utilize validated screening tools to improve their ability to detect perinatal mood and anxiety disorders.
      • Know how to utilize validated suicide risk assessment tools to improve their ability to assess suicidal risk in perinatal patients.
      • Receive up to date, evidence-based information about when, what, why, and how to use psychotropic medications in perinatal patients.

      This training offers 6 Continuing Education contact hours for the following license types: LCSWs, LMSWs, LMHCs, LMFTs, LPs, and Psychologists.

      Date & Time

      Monday, November 17th, 2025

      8:30 AM - 4:00 PM ET

      Registration begins at 8:30 AM. Lunch included.

      Location

      Hilton, Albany

      40 Lodge St, Albany, NY 12207

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