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Understand specific mental health challenges associated with pregnancy
Presented by LeeAnn Bartolini, Ph.D. and Jill Zechowy, M.D., M.S.
2 CEs available
Free for Marin CAMFT members and RECAMFT reciprocal chapter members!
This training will not be recorded. Please plan to attend the "live" session on Zoom if you are interested in this learning activity.
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PLEASE NOTE: After you sign up here, you'll be sent instructions on how to complete a separate registration step with Zoom, which is how you will get your Zoom link. You can do that in advance, or right before the meeting begins. This registration step lets us more accurately track attendance in the Zoom meeting for our compliance purposes as a CE provider.
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Workshop Description
Introduction to Perinatal Mental Health shines a light on an area of mental health that is rarely covered in graduate mental health education. The training intends to introduce participants to a number of topics that clinicians need to consider when working with pregnant and postpartum individuals and couples.
Educational Goals
This training will cover the diagnosis and screening of perinatal mental health disorders, with an overview of psychotherapy treatment of these disorders.
Learning Objectives
Upon completion of this workshop, participants should be able to:
- Differentiate between the self-limiting "baby blues" and clinical perinatal depression or anxiety based on symptom onset, duration, and the level of functional impairment.
- Identify the distinct clinical presentations of various perinatal mental health conditions—including perinatal depression, generalized anxiety, obsessive-compulsive disorder (OCD), PTSD, and postpartum psychosis.
- Analyze perinatal-specific risk factors to differentiate between varying degrees of maternal suicide risk.
- Describe how perinatal mental health disorders may present differently in
light of an individual’s gender, diverse background or sexual identities.
- Apply evidence-based prevention efforts in perinatal mental health.
- Help families better prepare for postpartum, with the goal of reduction of risk for postpartum depression.
- Discuss the risks vs. benefits of psychopharmacologic approaches to enhance their clients’ abilities for informed decision making.
Presenters
LeeAnn Bartolini, Ph.D. has 40 years of experience as a Professor of Psychology at Dominican University, teaching in both the undergraduate and graduate psychology programs. She has also maintained a private practice since 1985, focusing on women’s issues, including pregnancy and post-partum mental health. As a certified death doula, she also assists others with end of life planning. She taught the Psychology of Women for decades and completed The Perinatal Mental Health Certification (PMH-C) Program with PSI-International.
Jill Zechowy, M.D., M.S. began her career as a family physician and taught clinical medicine as an Associate Professor of Medicine at UCSF’s Family Medicine Residency Program. After becoming a mother, Dr. Zechowy focused her professional interests on perinatal mental health. She received her master’s in counseling psychology from Dominican University in 2010 and then opened her private practice, Women’s Mental Health, MD, in Sonoma County. In 2024 Dr. Zechowy published Motherhood Survival Manual: Your Prenatal Guide to Prevent Postpartum Depression & Anxiety. She is a volunteer with Postpartum
Support International and speaker for primary care physicians on the diagnosis and treatment of perinatal mental health disorders.
Registering for this Zoom training does not include access to any recording or an on-demand version.
You will be sent instructions on how to register with Zoom to get your personal Zoom link to use for attendance. Please read the email confirmation you receive after signing up on the Marin CAMFT website for these instructions.
Attendance at the live event in full and completion of the evaluation at the end qualifies for 2 hours of Continuing Education (2 CEs).
Date: Friday, November 13
Time: 12:00 to 2:00 pm Pacific
Cost: Free for Marin CAMFT members and reciprocal members, $30 for non-members. Please see refund policy below.
Location: Online via Zoom. Instructions for registering with Zoom, in order to receive your Personal Zoom Join Link, will be sent in your confirmation message from Marin CAMFT. You will need to complete that second Zoom-registration step in order to receive your Zoom Link by email.
Additional Information about Marin CAMFT CE Programs
For more information about the Friday Continuing Education Series or about joining the Marin CAMFT Continuing Education Committee, please contact our Director of Programs.
- Continuing Education: This workshop meets the qualifications for 2 hours of continuing education credit for LMFTs, LCSWs, LEPs and/or LPCCs as required by the California Board of Behavioral Sciences. These CEs will be provided by Marin CAMFT (CAMFT Provider # 56895), which is approved by the California Association of Marriage and Family Therapists to sponsor continuing education for LMFTs, LCSWs, LPCCs and LEPs. We regret that at this time we are not able to provide CE credits for Licensed Psychologists. Participants must attend the full duration of the program (on Zoom, or in person, per event details above) and complete the course evaluation to receive the CE completion certificate. Course evaluations must be completed within 90 days of the training date. A $20 administrative fee will be charged for requests received more than 90 days after the course asking for course evaluation instructions, replacement CE certificates, or for research into missing or lost CE certificates. Marin CAMFT maintains responsibility for this program and its contents. Contact our Director of Programs for more information.
- Continuing Education Goal: Marin CAMFT is committed to offering continuing education courses to train LMFTs, LCSWs, LPCCs and LEPs to treat any client in an ethically and clinically sound manner based upon current accepted standards of practice.
- Refund Policy: Our refund policy requires a $20 processing fee, and we must be notified in advance of the event if you would like to cancel. We do not provide refunds in case of non-attendance by the registrant. Please allow up to a week from requesting the refund to it being processed. Participants who register for free may choose to cancel by emailing info@marincamft.org if they will not be attending, though this is not necessary. Please contact our Director of Programs with any questions.
- Request for Accommodations: If you need accommodations for this event, please contact the Director of Programs.
- Grievance Procedure: Marin CAMFT will respond to complaints in a reasonable, ethical and timely manner, when submitted by program attendees in writing to the Director of Programs.
- Anti-Discrimination Policy: Marin CAMFT shall not discriminate against any individual or group with respect to any service, program or activity based on gender or gender identity, sexual orientation, ethnicity, race, creed, national origin, citizenship status, religion, age, ability, or other prohibited basis. Marin CAMFT does not require attendees to adhere to any particular religion or creed in order to participate in training. Marin CAMFT will not promote or advocate for a single modality of treatment that is discriminatory or likely to harm clients based on current accepted standards or practice.
Continuing education credits are available for attendance in the Zoom presentation. You must stay on the Zoom meeting for the entirety of the training and complete the course evaluation afterward in order to receive a completion certificate. Because of the requirement to attend the training in full, if you attempt to log in to the Zoom late, after the training is already underway, you may not be admitted. Please log onto the event promptly at the listed start time.
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