OBX COURSE for facilitators
Modules
Overall Clinical Approach to the Treatment of the Peripartum Patient
This module equips clinicians with a framework for psychiatric assessment and evidence-based depression management during the perinatal period, emphasizing balanced risk-risk decision-making that accounts for the harms of both untreated illness and pharmacological treatment.
Perinatal Depression for Ob-Gyn Providers
This module covers the epidemiology, etiology, clinical presentation, and evidence-based treatment of perinatal depression, giving participants the knowledge to screen, diagnose, and initiate first-line management in affected patients.
Bipolar Disorder for Ob-Gyn Providers
This module examines how bipolar disorder affects obstetric and psychiatric outcomes, equipping clinicians to recognize and manage the unique risks this condition poses during pregnancy and the postpartum period.
Perinatal Anxiety Disorders and OCD
This module equips clinicians to recognize and differentiate GAD, panic disorder, and OCD from normal perinatal anxiety and from each other, while building confidence in initiating treatment, avoiding common pitfalls, and determining when specialist referral is warranted.
Trauma and the Perinatal Period
This module examines the intersection of trauma and perinatal care, equipping clinicians to recognize trauma histories and PTSD in pregnant and postpartum patients and to provide informed, sensitive management that supports both maternal and fetal wellbeing.
Perinatal loss
This module explores the mental health impact of perinatal loss, equipping clinicians with a compassionate clinical framework to distinguish normal grief from anxiety, depression, and other acute psychiatric presentations, while navigating the unique complexities of supporting patients through pregnancy and infant loss.
Management of Alcohol, Opioid, and other Substance Use During Pregnancy
This module covers the prevalence, risk factors, and maternal and fetal impacts of alcohol and opioid use disorders in the perinatal period, equipping clinicians with evidence-based treatment and relapse prevention strategies to support affected patients.
Suicide and agitation
This module equips clinicians to identify suicide risk factors and prevalence in postpartum patients, conduct structured acute risk assessments, determine appropriate level of care, and manage agitation in acute psychiatric presentations.
Psychosis and mania
This module covers the prevalence, risk factors, screening, and clinical features of postpartum psychosis and mania, equipping clinicians to construct a differential diagnosis and confidently assess and treat these psychiatric emergencies.
Capacity in Pregnancy
This module guides clinicians through the core components of capacity assessment, helping them determine when and how to evaluate capacity, identify pathways to restore it, and navigate surrogate decision-making when capacity cannot be regained.