15.3 perinatal mental health, critical omission from psychiatry training: a suggested training module

A significant knowledge gap exists in psychiatry training about the mental health of pregnant and early postpartum (perinatal) women. However, the consequences of maternal mental illness on the developing infant can be devastating; the infant nervous system is developing most rapidly in the first 1,000 days of life, when postpartum depression (PPD) typically occurs. The reason for this gap may be the failure to link teaching about neurobiology to clinical problems, such that few trainees consider underlying neurobiological changes when clinically assessing perinatal patients.
Source: Journal of the American Academy of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry - Category: Psychiatry Authors: Tags: Symposium 15 Source Type: research