PMH-C UPDATED REVIEWS LATEST QUESTIONS
AND ANSWERS SURE A+
✔✔Types of social support - ✔✔Family and friends
Telephone
Email and online
Peer groups
Faith communities
Material or Practical
Emotional
Informational
Comparison support (been there, know how you feel)
✔✔Self-help groups - ✔✔The knowledge base of self-help mutual support groups is
experiential, indigenous, and rooted in the wisdom that comes from struggling with
problems in concrete, shared ways
Self-help groups build on the strengths of their members
✔✔Postpartum Support Groups - ✔✔A psychoeducational group for women with low
postpartum mood can significantly reduce depressive symptoms
,A program of supportive group therapy for postpartum mothers can significantly lower or
eliminate depressive episodes
✔✔Support Groups vs Therapy Groups - ✔✔Support Groups:
Facilitator guides process and intervenes when needed
Mothers support each other, give feedback or suggestions when asked
Usually opens at all times to new members
Support persons might be included
Therapy Groups:
Facilitator is a professional mental health provider
More focus on group dynamics and therapeutic process for each woman
Closed group for specific time period. Starts and ends
Might include group for couples therapy
✔✔Social Support Facilitators - ✔✔Volunteers that provide empathy
Role models and proof that women can get well
Suggests options without giving advice
✔✔Telephone Support - ✔✔Warmline (one to one)
Shares resources
Effectively decreases depressive symptomology
✔✔9 Steps to wellness - ✔✔Education
Sleep
Nutrition
Exercise and time for yourself
Non-judgemental sharing
Emotional support
Practical support
Referrals and other resources
Plan of action (what are you going to do when you leave?)
✔✔Faith Communities - ✔✔Existential questions may become spiritual and/or religious
concerns
Faith is a familiar and important path to meaning-making
✔✔Culture - ✔✔shared set of beliefs, values, knowledge, and patterns of behavior
common to a group of people
✔✔Cultural Humility - ✔✔Acknowledge cultural differences
Understand you own culture
Engage in self-assessment
Aquire cultural knowledge and skills
View behavior within a cultural context
, If you are not sure what language to use, ask the person
Person first language
Culture is many things:
Race, Ethnicity, Country, Religion, Ability, Gender, Sexuality, Neighborhood, SES, Job
status...
✔✔Culture in birth - ✔✔Diverse ways of explaining and reporting depression
Some women may not recognize their symptoms as being related to PPD
Women may not feel they are able to seek help
Expected to stoically fulfill their social roles
Culture influences whether symptoms are expressed in somatic or affective forms
Diverse beliefs about:
gender of baby
Compatibility with mother-in-law
Feeding and sleeping arrangements
✔✔Spirituality - ✔✔The personal experience of ordering our consciousness to make
sense of our lives, our circumstances and our experiences
Religion is an organized and structured approach to spirituality
✔✔Ideal Team Model - ✔✔Starts prenatally
Includes followup and continuity of care
Includes professional and social support
Providers and supporters respect confidentiality of the family
Family feels that team is working together and is not in conflict
Accessible flexible to meet unique needs
✔✔Stages of recovery - ✔✔Acute symptoms
Initial recovery: resolution of acute stage
First slump
Transient symptoms" ups and downs
Resolving
Recovering confidence
Grieving
Finding meaning
✔✔CBT for anxiety - ✔✔Recognize anxiety as an alarm
Exposure
Reduce physical hyper-vigilance
Take away danger
Increase perceived control
Develop coping skills
Educate on awareness
AND ANSWERS SURE A+
✔✔Types of social support - ✔✔Family and friends
Telephone
Email and online
Peer groups
Faith communities
Material or Practical
Emotional
Informational
Comparison support (been there, know how you feel)
✔✔Self-help groups - ✔✔The knowledge base of self-help mutual support groups is
experiential, indigenous, and rooted in the wisdom that comes from struggling with
problems in concrete, shared ways
Self-help groups build on the strengths of their members
✔✔Postpartum Support Groups - ✔✔A psychoeducational group for women with low
postpartum mood can significantly reduce depressive symptoms
,A program of supportive group therapy for postpartum mothers can significantly lower or
eliminate depressive episodes
✔✔Support Groups vs Therapy Groups - ✔✔Support Groups:
Facilitator guides process and intervenes when needed
Mothers support each other, give feedback or suggestions when asked
Usually opens at all times to new members
Support persons might be included
Therapy Groups:
Facilitator is a professional mental health provider
More focus on group dynamics and therapeutic process for each woman
Closed group for specific time period. Starts and ends
Might include group for couples therapy
✔✔Social Support Facilitators - ✔✔Volunteers that provide empathy
Role models and proof that women can get well
Suggests options without giving advice
✔✔Telephone Support - ✔✔Warmline (one to one)
Shares resources
Effectively decreases depressive symptomology
✔✔9 Steps to wellness - ✔✔Education
Sleep
Nutrition
Exercise and time for yourself
Non-judgemental sharing
Emotional support
Practical support
Referrals and other resources
Plan of action (what are you going to do when you leave?)
✔✔Faith Communities - ✔✔Existential questions may become spiritual and/or religious
concerns
Faith is a familiar and important path to meaning-making
✔✔Culture - ✔✔shared set of beliefs, values, knowledge, and patterns of behavior
common to a group of people
✔✔Cultural Humility - ✔✔Acknowledge cultural differences
Understand you own culture
Engage in self-assessment
Aquire cultural knowledge and skills
View behavior within a cultural context
, If you are not sure what language to use, ask the person
Person first language
Culture is many things:
Race, Ethnicity, Country, Religion, Ability, Gender, Sexuality, Neighborhood, SES, Job
status...
✔✔Culture in birth - ✔✔Diverse ways of explaining and reporting depression
Some women may not recognize their symptoms as being related to PPD
Women may not feel they are able to seek help
Expected to stoically fulfill their social roles
Culture influences whether symptoms are expressed in somatic or affective forms
Diverse beliefs about:
gender of baby
Compatibility with mother-in-law
Feeding and sleeping arrangements
✔✔Spirituality - ✔✔The personal experience of ordering our consciousness to make
sense of our lives, our circumstances and our experiences
Religion is an organized and structured approach to spirituality
✔✔Ideal Team Model - ✔✔Starts prenatally
Includes followup and continuity of care
Includes professional and social support
Providers and supporters respect confidentiality of the family
Family feels that team is working together and is not in conflict
Accessible flexible to meet unique needs
✔✔Stages of recovery - ✔✔Acute symptoms
Initial recovery: resolution of acute stage
First slump
Transient symptoms" ups and downs
Resolving
Recovering confidence
Grieving
Finding meaning
✔✔CBT for anxiety - ✔✔Recognize anxiety as an alarm
Exposure
Reduce physical hyper-vigilance
Take away danger
Increase perceived control
Develop coping skills
Educate on awareness
