Senior Trainees Perinatal Psychiatry Masterclasses
Welcome to your Senior Trainees Perinatal Psychiatry Masterclasses
Your five masterclass dates:
- Monday 18 January 2021
- Tuesday 19 January 2021
- Wednesday 20 January 2021
- Thursday 21 January 2021
- Friday 22 January 2021
- Course starts at 09:15am and end at 4:30pm each day
Resources
- Course Programme
- includes timings and session details for each day, and reading lists
For Monday 18 January:
- Perinatal services in England
- Formulating and communicating assessments
- Partners and fathers in the perinatal period
For Tuesday 19 January:
- Depression
- Anxiety disorders
- Pre-birth planning meetings
- Post-partum psychosis and BPAD
- Schizophrenia – what does this diagnosis mean for women in the perinatal period?
For Wednesday 20 January:
- Paper on Lithium Use
- Paper on Gestational Diabetes
- Paper on antidepressant medication
- Slides - General Principles of Prescribing
- Safeguarding in the perinatal period
- Guidance for newborn assessment
- Prescribing antipsychotics & mood stabilisers - Dr A Wieck
- Antidepressants - Prof Ian Jones
For Thursday 21 January:
- Slides - Psychological Interventions in the Perinatal Period (Dr Nic Horley)
- Slides - Personality disorders and maternal mental health Part 1 (Dr Gwen Adshead)
- Slides - Personality disorders and maternal mental health Part 2 (Dr Gwen Adshead)
see prescribing papers for Wednesday
For Friday 22 January:
- Working with and understanding women with substance dependence and misuse in the perinatal period (Dr Emily Finch)
- Managing risk in the perinatal period (Dr Roch Cantwell)
- Approaches to evaluating infant emotional development in perinatal clinical practice (Dr Maddalena Miele)
- Compassionate leadership and self care
This includes the following:
A preconception resource for health care professionals working with women with SMI
Slides and Case Studies
Copies of the PowerPoint presentations/case studies will be made available here to view by kind permission of the presenters.
All presentations remain the intellectual property of the author and it is strictly prohibited to copy, distribute or reproduce any information, images or data included in these presentations without prior written consent of the author. If a presentation is not listed, it is because we have not received permission from the author. This page will be updated if further presentations are received.
How to join a masterclass session
Sessions take place online via Zoom. To take part you will need:
- Access to a reliable internet connection
- A PC, laptop, tablet or phone
- Google Chrome or Microsoft Edge browser or Zoom installed on your PC, laptop, tablet or phone
- You do not need to have a Zoom account - some users may experience difficulty joining Zoom meetings due to security settings. If this is the case, we suggest you select the option to join via a web browser, rather than the Zoom app
- A joining link and instructions will be emailed to you in advance of each session
Read more about using Zoom
During the session
- You will view the speakers as they present and any accompanying slides/videos
- You will need to share your camera and microphone during the course
- There may also be breakout or smaller discussion groups
- You can ask questions using the Q&A function located on the right-hand side of your screen
- You can raise your hand, using the ‘raise hand’ function - if you are selected by the speaker to ask your question, remember to 'unmute' yourself
- If you lose connection during the session, refresh your screen or try closing down browser and clicking the joining link again
Contact the team: email Catherine Ayres and Emma George at perinatal.masterclasses@rcpsych.ac.uk