The goal of this continuing education program is to update healthcare professionals’ knowledge about how to recognize and intervene with a mother who has a postpartum psychiatric disorder. After you study the information presented here, you will be able to:
- Describe the differences between postpartum blues, anxiety symptoms, depressive symptoms and psychosis
- Identify five signs or symptoms of postpartum depression
- List four interventions and three treatments for a mother with postpartum depression
