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Psychiatric Disorders in Women: Diagnostic and Treatment Considerations Across the Female Lifespan (Community Behavioral Health)
This course will focus on the diagnosis and treatment of psychiatric disorders in women across the reproductive lifespan. Specialized knowledge is necessary to tailor treatments to reproductive events such as pregnancy and pregnancy planning, postpartum, breastfeeding, the menopausal transition, and menstrual cycle-related mood dysregulation. Exposure to psychotropic medications and the consequences of untreated psychiatric disorders must be considered when treating pregnant women, those who may become pregnant during treatment, and those who are breastfeeding. Up-to-date and comprehensive knowledge is required to help patients make collaborative and individualized treatment decisions. Focused material will also be presented regarding the treatment of premenstrual dysphoric disorder and premenstrual mood exacerbation, as well as treatment considerations for the menopausal transition. Learning in this course will be facilitated by didactic materials delivered by the faculty from the MGH Center for Women’s Mental Health.
Course materials will be available starting January 13. Readings to accompany course materials will also be provided.
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Target Audience
This program is intended for:
- Psychiatrists
- Primary care physicians
- Nurse practitioners
- Social workers
- Psychologists
- OB-GYN'S
- Midwives
Accreditation
In support of improving patient care, MGH Institute of Health Professions is jointly accredited by the Accreditation Council for Continuing Medical Education (ACCME), the Accreditation Council for Pharmacy Education (ACPE), and the American Nurses Credentialing Center (ANCC) to provide continuing education for the healthcare team.
6.25 Physicians
MGH Institute of Health Professions designates this live activity for a maximum of 6.25 AMA PRA Category 1 Credits ™. Physicians should claim only credit commensurate with the extent of their participation in this activity.
6.25 Physician Associates/Assistants
AAPA Credit Designation Statement – Live
MGH Institute of Health Professions has been authorized by the American Academy of PAs (AAPA) to award AAPA Category 1 CME credit for activities planned in accordance with AAPA CME Criteria. This activity is designated for 6.25 AAPA Category 1 CME credits. PAs should only claim credit commensurate with the extent of their participation.
AAPA Credit Designation Statement – Enduring Materials
MGH Institute of Health Professions has been authorized by the American Academy of PAs (AAPA) to award AAPA Category 1 CME credit for activities planned in accordance with AAPA CME Criteria. This activity is designated for 6.25 AAPA Category 1 CME credits. PAs should only claim credit commensurate with the extent of their participation.
6.25 Nursing
MGH Institute of Health Professions designates this activity for 6.25 contact hours for nurses. The American Academy of Nurse Practitioners Certification Board (AANPCB) accepts credit from organizations accredited by the ACCME and ANCC.
6.25 Psychologists
Continuing Education (CE) credits for psychologists are provided through the co-sponsorship of the American Psychological Association (APA) Office of Continuing Education in Psychology (CEP). The APA CEP Office maintains responsibility for the content of the programs. MGH Institute of Health Professions designates this activity for 6.25 CE credit.
6.25 Social Workers
As a Jointly Accredited Organization, MGH Institute of Health Professions is approved to offer social work continuing education by the Association of Social Work Boards (ASWB) Approved Continuing Education (ACE) program. Organizations, not individual courses, are approved under this program. State and provincial regulatory boards have the final authority to determine whether an individual course may be accepted for continuing education credit. MGH Institute of Health Professions maintains responsibility for this course. Social workers completing this course receive 6.25 clock hours for continuing education credits.
13.0 IPCE Credit
This activity was planned by and for the healthcare team, and learners will receive 6.25 Interprofessional Continuing Education (IPCE) credits for learning and change.
Learning Objectives
By the end of this program, participants will be able to:
- Describe critical research findings in reproductive psychiatry that inform clinical care.
- Recognize the current knowledge gaps in reproductive neuroscience with respect to perinatal depression.
- Receive an update regarding the reproductive safety of psychiatric medication during pregnancy and management strategies for screening and treatment of postpartum depression.
- Frame the treatment of reproductive-aged women with bipolar disorder from the standpoint of reproductive safety.
- Discuss the relative safety of pharmacologic treatments used in bipolar disorder in consideration of pregnancy.
- Consider multiple and patient-centered variables in treatment selection for pregnant and reproductive-aged women with bipolar disorder.
- Identify evidence-based treatments for PMDD, including psychotropic, hormonal, and lifestyle modification options.
- Describe the pathophysiology of PMDD.
- Recognize the diagnostic criteria for PMDD outlined in DSM-5.
- Distinguish normal physical, hormonal, and emotional changes at menopause from pathophysiologic conditions occurring during the menopausal transition.
- Discuss the pathophysiology of and the role of hormonal changes in psychiatric illness emerging during the menopausal transition.
- Identify appropriate treatment options for mood and anxiety disorders in midlife women.
- Identify the etiology of co-occurring PTSD and SUD in women.
- Discuss screening for and diagnosis of co-occurring PTSD and SUD in women.
- Describe the best treatment modalities for co-occurring PTSD and SUD in women.
- Discuss general risks of stimulant use during pregnancy and lactation with their patients with ADHD.
- Create a tailored risk/risk analysis of stimulant use vs. risk of stopping treatment for their patient with ADHD.
- Describe the non-pharmacologic treatment options available to their patients with ADHD.
Program Agenda
Participants must complete each week sequentially and while completing all components of each week to receive credit, including:
- Video Lecture
- Reading & Resources
- Quiz Assessment
*There will be no Q&A or Discussion Board for Psychiatric Disorders in Women: Diagnostic and Treatment Considerations Across the Female Lifespan.
Psychiatric Disorders in Women: Diagnostic and Treatment Considerations Across the Female Lifespan
Course Opens: January 13, 2025
Week 1: Major Depressive Disorder in Pregnancy and the Postpartum – January 13, 2025
Lee Cohen, MD
Week 2: Bipolar Disorder: Considerations Across the Reproductive Lifespan – January 27, 2025
Marlene Freeman, MD
Week 3: Premenstrual Dysphoric Disorder (PMDD) – February 10, 2025
Laura Fagioli-Petrillo, MD
Week 4: The Menopausal Transition and Depression – February 24, 2025
Ruta Nonacs, MD, PhD
Week 5: Substance Use Disorders and Posttraumatic Stress Disorder in Women of Reproductive Age – March 10, 2025
Edwin Raffi, MD, MPH
Week 6: ADHD in Women – March 24, 2025
Allison Baker, MD
Available Credit
- 6.25 AMA PRA Category 1 Credit™
This activity has been planned and implemented in accordance with the accreditation requirements and policies of the Accreditation Council for Continuing Medical Education (ACCME) through the joint providership of McLean Hospital and Massachusetts General Hospital. McLean Hospital is accredited by the ACCME to provide continuing medical education for physicians.
McLean Hospital designates this Enduring activity for a maximum of 6.25 AMA PRA Category 1 Credit™. Physicians should only claim credit commensurate with the extent of their participation in the activity.
- 6.25 Nursing Contact Hours
Massachusetts General Laws, Chapter 13, sections 13, 14, 14A, 15 and 15D and Chapter 112, sections 74 through 81C authorize the Board of Registration in Nursing to regulate nursing practice and education.
This program meets the requirements of the Massachusetts Board of Registration in Nursing (244 CMR 5.00) for 6.25 contact hours of nursing continuing education credit. Advance practice nurses, please note: Educational activities which meet the requirements of the ACCME (such as this activity) count towards 50% of the nursing requirement for ANCC accreditation.
- 6.25 Social Workers
The Collaborative of NASW, Boston College, and Simmons College Schools of Social Work authorizes social work continuing education credits for courses, workshops, and educational programs that meet the criteria outlined in 258 CMR of the Massachusetts Board of Registration of Social Workers
This program has been approved for 6.25 Social Work Continuing Education hours for relicensure, in accordance with 258 CMR. Collaborative of NASW and the Boston College and Simmons Schools of Social Work Authorization Number D 81249
- 6.25 Participation
This course allows other providers to claim a Participation Certificate upon successful completion of this course.
Participation Certificates will specify the title, location, type of activity, date of activity, and number of AMA PRA Category 1 Credit™ associated with the activity. Providers should check with their regulatory agencies to determine ways in which AMA PRA Category 1 Credit™ may or may not fulfill continuing education requirements. Providers should also consider saving copies of brochures, agenda, and other supporting documents.
- 6.25 Psychologists CE Credit
The Massachusetts General Hospital Department of Psychiatry is approved by the American Psychological Association to sponsor continuing education for psychologists. The Massachusetts General Hospital Department of Psychiatry maintains responsibility for this program and its content.
This offering meets the criteria for 6.25 Continuing Education (CE) credits per presentation for psychologists.
Release Date: November 4, 2019
Expiration Date: March 25, 2027
Review Date: March 23, 2021 by Robert Althoff, MD, PhD
Course Director(s)
Lee Cohen, MD
Marlene Freeman, MD
Planners
David H. Rubin, MD, reviewer
Jane Pimental, MPH
Susan E. Sprich, PhD, psychologist reviewer, moderator
Lee Cohen, MD
Marlene Freeman, MD
ARCHIVED DISCLOSURES
Disclosure Information
In accord with the disclosure policy of McLean Hospital as well as guidelines set forth by the Accreditation Council on Continuing Medical Education, all people in control of educational content, including speakers, course directors, planners, and reviewers, have been asked to disclose all relevant financial relationships with commercial interests of both themselves and their spouses/partners over the past 12 months, as defined below:
Commercial Interest
The ACCME defines a “commercial interest” as any entity producing, marketing, re-selling, or distributing health care goods or services, used on, or consumed by, patients. The ACCME does not consider providers of clinical service directly to patients to be commercial interests. For more information, visit www.accme.org.
Financial relationships
Financial relationships are those relationships in which the individual benefits by receiving a salary, royalty, intellectual property rights, consulting fee, honoraria, ownership interest (e.g., stocks, stock options or other ownership interest, excluding diversified mutual funds), or other financial benefit. Financial benefits are usually associated with roles such as employment, management position, independent contractor (including contracted research), consulting, speaking and teaching, membership on advisory committees or review panels, board membership, and other activities from which remuneration is received, or expected. ACCME considers relationships of the person involved in the CME activity to include financial relationships of a spouse or partner.
Relevant financial relationships
ACCME focuses on financial relationships with commercial interests in the 12-month period preceding the time that the individual is being asked to assume a role controlling content of the CME activity. ACCME has not set a minimal dollar amount for relationships to be significant. Inherent in any amount is the incentive to maintain or increase the value of the relationship. The ACCME defines “’relevant’ financial relationships” as financial relationships in any amount occurring within the past 12 months that create a conflict of interest.
Conflict of Interest
Circumstances create a conflict of interest when an individual has an opportunity to affect CME content about products or services of a commercial interest with which he/she has a financial relationship.
The following planners, speakers, and content reviewers, on behalf of themselves and their spouse or partner, have reported financial relationships with an entity producing, marketing, re-selling, or distributing health care goods or services (relevant to the content of this activity) consumed by, or used on, patients:
Susan Sprich, PhD
Royalties (Co-Author): Oxford University Press
Royalties (Co-Edited Book): Springer
Honoraria (Associate Editors): Association for Behavioral and Cognitive Therapies (ABCT)
All other individuals including course directors, planners, reviewers, faculty, staff, etc., who are in a position to control the content of this educational activity have, on behalf of themselves and their spouse or partner, reported no financial relationships related to the content of this activity.
Disclosure Information
In accord with the disclosure policy of McLean Hospital as well as guidelines set forth by the Accreditation Council on Continuing Medical Education, all people in control of educational content, including speakers, course directors, planners, and reviewers, have been asked to disclose all financial relationships with ineligible companies for the past 24 months, as defined below:
Ineligible Companies
The ACCME defines an “Ineligible company” as “those whose primary business is producing, marketing, selling, re-selling, or distributing healthcare products used by or on patients.” For more information, visit
Financial Relationships
Financial relationships are those relationships in which the individual benefits by receiving a salary, royalty, intellectual property rights, consulting fee, honoraria, ownership interest (e.g., stocks, stock options or other ownership interest, excluding diversified mutual funds), or other financial benefit. Financial benefits are usually associated with roles such as employment, management position, independent contractor (including contracted research), consulting, speaking and teaching, membership on advisory committees or review panels, board membership, and other activities from which remuneration is received, or expected.
Mitigation of Financial Relationships
All financial relationships are reviewed to determine which ones are relevant, and then measures are taken to mitigate all relevant financial relationships and ensure that they do not insert commercial bias into the content of the education.
The following planners, speakers, content reviewers, and others in control of educational content have reported financial relationships with ineligible companies over the past 24 months. Measures have been taken to mitigate the impact of these financial relationships on the educational content and ensure that they do not insert commercial bias into the content of this education.
Marlene P. Freeman, MD
Investigator Initiated Trials (Research): JayMac, Sage
Advisory Board: Otsuka, Alkermes, Sunovion Pharmaceuticals
Independent Data Safety and Monitoring Committee (Honoraria): Janssen (Johnson& Johnson)
Dr. Freeman is an employee of Massachusetts General Hospital, and works with the MGH National Pregnancy Registry [Current Registry Sponsors]: Teva, Alkermes, Inc., Otsuka America Pharmaceutical, Inc., Forest/Actavis, Sunovion Pharmaceuticals, Inc.
Steering Committee for Educational Activities: Medscape
Lee S. Cohen, PhD
Research Support: National Pregnancy Registry for Psychiatric medications, Alkermes Biopharmaceuticals ; Aurobindo Pharma; Auromedics Pharma LLC; Janssen Pharmaceutica; Otsuka Pharmaceuticals, Inc; Supernus Pharmaceuticals
Other Research Support: Brain & Behavior Research Foundation; JayMac Pharmaceuticals; National Institute on Aging; National Institutes of Health; SAGE Therapeutics
Advisory/Consulting (through MGH Clinical Trials Network Initiative): Alkermes Biopharmaceuticals; Praxis Precision Medicines, Inc.
All other individuals in a position to control the content of this educational activity have reported no financial relationships with ineligible companies.
Hardware/Software Specifications
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Optimal System Configuration
Flash Player: Adobe Flash Player 10.1+
Browser: Firefox 3+, Internet Explorer 8.0+, Safari 4.0+, or Google Chrome 7.0+
Operating System: Windows XP+ or Mac OS X 10.4+
Internet Connection: 1 Mbps or higher
Minimum Requirements
Windows PC:500-MHz Pentium II; Windows XP or higher; 128 MB RAM; Video Card at least 64MB of video memory; Sound Card at least 16-bit; Macromedia Flash Player 10 or higher, audio playback with speakers for programs with video content; Firefox 1.1+, Internet Explorer 7.0+, Safari 1.0+, Google Chrome, or Opera
Macintosh: Mac OS X 10.3 or higher with latest updates installed; 1.83MHz Intel Core Duo or faster; RAM: 128MB or more; Video Card: at least 64MB of video memory; Sound Card: at least 16-bit
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