{{ (moduleVm.actions && moduleVm.changeStatus) ? moduleVm.status : '' }} Postpartum Depression Screening: A Review for Psychiatrists - Vol. 24, No. 3

Activity Steps

1 Activity
2 Take Test 3Certificate

Description

Method of Participation in the Learning Process/Evaluation Method

Successful completion of this activity includes reading the entire article and successfully completing the post-quiz and an evaluation form.

Getting the Most out of the Activity

As you prepare to participate in this activity, please reflect on your practice and your patients and identify clinical challenges you hope to have addressed.

While participating in the training, identify ways you can use newly acquired knowledge, strategies, and skills to enhance patient outcomes and your own professional development.

Purpose of Activity

To perform a qualitative literature review on screening for postpartum depression (PPD), as applicable to the general psychiatrist. Results are classified by instrument, timing, and clinical setting of the screen.

Learning Objectives

After completing this continuing education activity you will be able to:

  1. Evaluate the rationale for screening women for postpartum depression.
  2. Assess tools for screening for postpartum depression.

Disclosures

All faculty members and all LCMEI staff members in a position to control the content of this CME activity have disclosed that they and their spouse/life partners (if any) have no financial relationships with, or financial interests in, any commercial companies pertaining to this educational activity.

Disclaimer

Clinicians should ensure that all diagnostic and therapeutic modalities are prescribed and used appropriately, based on accepted standards of care. Use of any drugs, devices, and imaging techniques should be guided by approved labeling/full prescribing information, best available evidence, and professional judgment. Faculty have been instructed that their content should be fair balanced and based on best available evidence. The information presented in this activity is the responsibility of the faculty and does not reflect the opinions of the provider.

Price: $12.95

Credits:

  • ACCME 1.0 CME

Lippincott Continuing Medical Education Institute, Inc. is accredited by the Accreditation Council for Continuing Medical Education to provide continuing medical education for physicians.

Lippincott Continuing Medical Education Institute, Inc. designates this enduring material for a maximum of 1.0 AMA PRA Category 1 CreditsTM. Physicians should only claim credit commensurate with the extent of their participation in the activity.

Planner
Professions: Physician
Test Code: HRP0516
Published: May/Jun 2016
Expires: 1/1/2026
Sources: Harvard Review of Psychiatry
Required Passing Score: 7/10 (70%)
Authors: Erin K. Smith, MD, Priya Gopalan, MD, Jody B. Glance, MD, and Pierre N. Azzam, MD
Categories: Psychiatric , Women's Health
Specialties: Psychiatry
Topics: Postpartum Depression