Perinatal Focused Education
​​Enrollment Opportunities for Physicians

 Caring for Patients During Pregnancy, Labor and Delivery: Providing Psychosocial Support During Maternity Care

This is our most popular offering, as our Full Program includes 6 content areas.
​FULL Program:​ (Offers 7 CMEs- Includes all courses listed below) $210.00
Courses:
• Using trauma-informed care as a basis for communication in perinatal care
• Perinatal mood and anxiety disorders: Providing emotional support in the perinatal period
• Providing psychosocial support during the antepartum period of pregnancy
• Providing psychosocial support during the intrapartum period of pregnancy
• Providing psychosocial support during the postpartum period of pregnancy
• Supporting maternity care staff as they support patients
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Individual Courses from Caring for Patients During Pregnancy, Labor and Delivery: Providing Psychosocial Support During Maternity Care
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Using Trauma-informed Care as a Basis for Communication during Pregnancy, Labor and Delivery:​ (offers 1 CME) $35.00
Topics include: principles of trauma-informed care, use of universal precautions during communication, supporting LGBTQ and other minority patients, recognizing implicit bias, importance of consent and joint decision-making, delivering bad news, and working with challenging patients.
Perinatal Mood and Anxiety Disorders (PMAD): Providing Emotional Support During the Perinatal Period  (offers 1 CME) $35.00
Topics include: Perinatal mood and anxiety disorders (PMAD's)- overview and differential diagnosis, PPD-risk factors and symptoms, adverse effects of maternal depression on infant and child development, symptoms of PTSD, screening for perinatal mood and anxiety disorders, treatment for PMADs.
Providing Psychosocial Support During the Antepartum Period  (offers 1 CME) $35.00
Topics include: challenges facing high risk OB patients, providing support for antepartum inpatients, providing support for antepartum outpatients, and knowing when it is appropriate to offer palliative care during pregnancy. 
Providing Psychosocial Support During the Intrapartum Period (offers 1 CME) $35.00
Topics include: managing patient expectations for labor & delivery including pain management, obstetric violence, provider factors that may increase patients' experiences of trauma, how to mitigate patients' trauma, and providing support for pregnancy loss.
Providing Psychosocial Support During the Postpartum Period  (offers 1 CME) $35.00
Topics include: the 4th Trimester, risk factors for traumatic birth experience, how to apply concepts of trauma-informed care to patients during this period, and how to support breastfeeding patients.  
Supporting Staff as They Support Families Course: (offers 1 CME) $35.00
Topics include burnout, compassion fatigue and secondary traumatic stress syndrome, bullying, work-life balance and staff support.  

Coping with COVID: Trauma-Informed Care for Frontline Maternity Providers During the COVID-19 Pandemic

This is a 3-course program to support frontline care providers with essential skills in providing psychosocial and emotional support to patients and staff during the COVID-19 pandemic.
​FULL Program:​ (Offers 2 CMEs- Includes all courses listed below) $70.00
Objectives:
• Define two principles of trauma-informed care.
• Identify two strategies for providing trauma-informed support to maternity patients and new parents.
• Identify three maternity care patient populations at greatest risk of experiencing anxiety and depression related to the pandemic.
• Define three conditions that are related to the increased mortality rate from COVID-19 in racial and ethnic minorities.
• Identify two benefits and two drawbacks of using telehealth resources to deliver health care.
• Define two principles that argue against separating COVID positive mothers from their babies after delivery.
• Define three mental health risks to health care providers that may result from working during the COVID-19 pandemic and ways to mitigate them.

Individual Courses From Coping with COVID: Trauma-Informed Care for Frontline Maternity Providers during the COVID-19 Pandemic:
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Using Trauma-informed Care as a Basis for Communication during Pregnancy, Labor and Delivery:​ (offers 1 CME) $35.00
Topics include: principles of trauma-informed care, use of universal precautions during communication, supporting LGBTQ and other minority patients, recognizing efforts of implicit bias, importance of consent and joint decision-making, delivering bad news, and working with challenging patients.
Perinatal Mood and Anxiety Disorders (PMAD): Providing Emotional Support During the Perinatal Period (offers 1 CME) $35.00
Topics include: Perinatal mood and anxiety disorders (PMAD's)- overview and differential diagnosis, PPD-risk factors and symptoms, adverse effects of maternal depression on infant and child development, symptoms of PTSD, screening for perinatal mood and anxiety disorders, treatment for PMADs.
Giving Birth During the COVID-19 Pandemic: Using Trauma-Informed Care to Support Patients, Families, and Staff  (offers 1 CME) $35.00
This course aims to help providers recognize and address the heightened risk factors for emotional distress which both families and staff face, and how to best support them in the unique care situations created by the COVID-19 pandemic.