Basic principles in perinatal mental health

Code: CMS14963O

3 ECTS

Duration: 15 weeks/78 hours

Scientific Area: Health Sciences

Teaching languages: Portuguese

Languages of tutoring support: Portuguese

Sustainable Development Goals

3. Saúde de qualidade - Assegurar uma vida saudável e promover o bem-estar para todos, em todas as idades.

4. Educação de qualidade - Assegurar a educação inclusiva, e equitativa e de qualidade, e promover oportunidades de aprendizagem ao longo da vida para todos.

5. Igualdade de género - Alcançar a igualdade de gênero e empoderar todas as mulheres e meninas.

Learning Goals

The course will have as its main learning objectives:
1.Raising awareness of the prevalence and importance of the impact of mental illness in the pregnancy and postpartum period
2.Building the capacity of participating professionals for the identification and basic intervention in mental health in the period of pregnancy and postpartum
More specifically:
3.Capacity building for the identification of the main mental health issues in the period of pregnancy and postpartum
4.Training in multidisciplinary intervention in mental health in pregnancy and postpartum
5. Capacity building for a brief understanding of psychopharmacological intervention in the perinatal period

Why the (urgent) relevance of screening and intervention in perinatal mental health?
Mother-baby relationship and the influence of self-care
Depression in the perinatal period
Anxiety in the perinatal period
OCD and psychosis in the perinatal period
Psychological trauma in childbirth and PSPT
Perinatal mental illness in the parents
Psychopharmacology in pregnancy, postpartum and breastfeeding
WHO guidelines for integration of perinatal mental health into maternal and child health services

Teaching Methods

The microcredit course is structured in short modules, totaling the ECTSs corresponding to 18h of training to be carried out in e-learning format and 60h of individual work. The course will have a total duration of 78h.The modules will be carried out after working hours. At the end of the course a report with discussion of a clinical case will be requested.

Assessment

Active participation in the discussion and reflection of the course objectives will have a weighting of 20% in the final mark. At the end of the course, students will also be asked to prepare an Evaluation Report, with the reflection and discussion of a clinical case, which will have a final weighting of 80% in the final mark of the course.