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This workshop aims to introduce health professionals to the current understanding of perinatal mood disorders and its management, using lecture, case studies and interactive exercises. 

• Recognise the psychosocial stressors that commonly affect parents in the perinatal period.
• Opportunistically screen women for perinatal mood disorders using a screening tool and clinical interview.
• Diagnose perinatal mood disorders as distinct from commonly experienced adjustment difficulties.
• Assess the risk of untreated perinatal depression for the motherbaby dyad.
• Select appropriate medications for pregnant and breastfeeding women when pharmacological treatment is indicated. 
• Develop a comprehensive management plan using a MHTP for women with perinatal mood disorders.

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