Clinical Care of the Client with Perinatal Mood Disorder
Date & Time
5/18/2012
Location
Pine Rest Postma Center, 300 68th Street SE, Grand Rapids 49548
Time: 8:15 a.m. – 4 p.m.
Contact: 616/222-4566
Cost: $90 seminar & lunch; $25 lunch only; no charge for Pine Rest staff
Registration deadline: May 4, 2012
Purpose Statement
“Clinical Care of the Client with PMD” is a conference designed to educate physicians, nurses, social workers, psychologists, therapists, and care providers on defining and recognizing Perinatal Mood Disorder while discussing current medications and therapeutic interventions that effectively manage this disorder.
Course Objectives
At the completion of this course, participants should be able to verbalize strategies for screening perinatal mood disorders, cite appropriate pharmacologic treatment options, understand the need for mother/baby bonding, and identify resources available as treatment options.
Key Note Speaker: Maria Muzik, MD, MS
Dr. Muzik completed her medical training in psychiatry at the University of Vienna in Austria, and the University of Michigan. She also holds a master’s degree in Clinical Research and Statistical Analysis from the University of Michigan. She is a certified psychotherapist and a research fellow with the International Psychoanalytic Association. She directs the University of Michigan Department of Psychiatry Perinatal Clinic and Parent-Infant Program, and serves as a perinatal psychiatry consultant at an Adolescent Youth Clinic in the community. She conducts research and provides clinical care. Clinically she focuses on work with mothers suffering from anxiety, trauma and depression during pregnancy and postpartum, and their infants or young children.
Who Should Attend
Physicians, physician assistants, nurse practitioners, registered nurses, nurse midwives, licensed practical nurses, social workers, mental health professionals, home health workers, and others involved in the care of women are invited.
Agenda
8:15 – 8:45 a.m. Registration
8:45 a.m. Opening Remarks
9:00 a.m. Responsible PPD Screening: Rationale, Timing, and Follow Up
The prognosis for a complete recovery from a Perinatal Mood Disorder is contingent on early screening and intervention. It is important for providers to know how to screen new mothers in a variety of healthcare settings. It is imperative for them to have a good understanding of the various screening tools that will be introduced in this presentation and how to administer them with comfort and accuracy. Discussion regarding screening barriers, challenges, and benefits will be included and actively debated.
Presented by Nancy Roberts, RN CCE
10:00 a.m. Perinatal Psychosis
This one hour presentation is designed to define, recognize, and treat Postpartum Psychosis. Attendees will learn to identify risk factors, symptoms and behavior in pregnant and postpartum women that occur in psychosis. Interventions, treatment and referral options will also be presented. Presented by Megan Auffrey-Zambiasi, MA LLP/LPC
11:00 a.m. Break and networking
11:30 a.m. Lunch and Keynote: Medication Management of Women with Perinatal Mood Disorders
Pregnancy and the peri-partum period do not protect women from mental illness or addiction. Childbirth has consistently shown over the centuries to be a potent trigger for mood disorders, anxiety, psychosis and relapse of substance use. The management of childbearing women with mental illness and addiction is challenging, requiring the healthcare provider to maintain maternal wellbeing during the pregnancy, while preventing postnatal recurrences and harm to the fetal/infant development. Healthcare providers working with childbearing women are asked to be knowledgeable in detecting early signs and symptoms of perinatal mental illness and substance use, understand the consequences of untreated perinatal illness on child development, support women in obtaining the appropriate medical attention necessary to promote optimal mother/infant outcomes and recognize the impact addiction has in choices made in life.
Presented by Maria Muzik, MD, MS
12:45 p.m. Addictions during Pregnancy: Detection, Consequences, and Treatment
It is a well established fact that mothers with substance use disorders and their children are at higher risk for myriad problems that threaten their health and wellbeing. Exposure of the developing fetus to psychoactive drugs in utero is a leading cause of mental, physical, psychological and sociological problems in infants and children. In the prenatal period, maternal substance use can lead to fetal growth restriction, abnormal fetal neurologic development and increased risk of preterm labor. The goal of this presentation is to introduce the audience to main substance categories abused during pregnancy and to elaborate on the impact of such abuse on a developing child. Screening and treatment options will be discussed as well.
Presented by Maria Muzik, MD, MS
1:45 p.m. Perinatal Mood Disorder and its Impact on the Parent-Infant Relationship
We’ve learned that babies mirror what they see in their mothers’ faces. The dance of mirroring can be rich and a nurturing experience when the infant looks into the face that is animated, loving, and readily available. It in turn can be a stressful, empty and anxiety producing experience for the baby. This session reviews ways that PMD affects infants, looks at problems that can occur within this dyad in the areas of bonding, attachment and for the infant specifically in his/her ability to learn how to self-regulate. Further, issues with cognitive impairment can occur in the infant. We’ll look at ways to improve the outcome for baby, mother and the dyad together.
Presented by Mary Beth Reimer, LBSW, MA, IMH-E(IV)
3:15 p.m. Break
3:30 p.m. “Through the Blue”
Sara and Jeff Tow will talk about both of their experiences suffering from postpartum depression after the birth of their two children. They will touch on how families are affected, the myth that dads can’t have Postpartum Depression, and why there is no need to suffer in silence, as they did. This difficult period in their lives is what is leading them to swim across Lake Michigan to raise awareness of this often misunderstood and misdiagnosed mental illness.
Presented by Jeff and Sara Tow
Special Note: You can help Sara and Jeff succeed in their “Through the Blue” journey and campaign. Please visit http://www.throughtheblue.org or http://www.throughtheblue.org/get-involved/items-needed-donations/ to learn more, and bring an item to the conference!
4:00 p.m. Wrap up and evaluations
Continuing Education
Nursing 5.5 contact hours may be provided. St. Joseph Mercy Health System is an approved provider of continuing nursing education by the Wisconsin Nurses Association, an accredited approver by the American Nurses Credentialing Center’s Commission on Accreditation. Planning Committee: Theresa Heindlmeyer, BSN, RN_BC; Megan Auffrey-Zambiasi, M.A./L.L.P./L.P.C.; Gretchen Johnson MSN, RN-BC; Scott Wagner, MSW, MBA, Sharon Chapin, BA.
5.5 credit hours offered for Social Workers. Pine Rest Christian Mental Health Services is an approved provider with the Michigan Social Work Continuing Education Collaborative. Approved Provider Number: MICEC-0047. CE hours are recognized by the Michigan Board of Social Work.
Location
The Postma Center
Pine Rest Christian Mental Health Services
300 68th Street SE
Grand Rapids, MI 49548
The Center is conveniently located off M-6 and US-131. Free parking on-site.
From Detroit/Lansing: Take Interstate 96 West through Lansing toward Grand Rapids. Take M-6 68th Street. Turn right/west on 68th Street. Pine Rest’s campus is located between Madison and Division Avenues on the south side of 68th Street.
From Chicago: Take Interstate 94 East. Merge onto I-196 North toward Holland / Grand Rapids (Exit 34). Take the M-6 East exit toward Lansing (Exit 64). Take the 68th Street / US-131 S exit toward Kalamazoo (Exit 8). Turn left/east on 68th Street. Pine Rest’s campus is located between Madison and Division Avenues on the south side of 68th Street.
From the North: Take US-131 South toward Grand Rapids. Take the 68th Street exit toward Cutlerville (Exit 76). Turn left/east on 68th Street. Pine Rest’s campus is one mile east of US-131 on the south side of 68th Street.
From the South: Take US-131 North toward Grand Rapids. Take the 68th Street exit toward Cutlerville (Exit 77). Turn right/east on 68th Street. Pine Rest’s campus is located between Madison and Division Avenues on the south side of 68th Street.
Options & Fees
Seminar & Lunch $90
Lunch Only $25
Deadline for registration is May 4, 2012
No refunds provided after May 4, 2012
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