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PSI Perinatal Mental Health Certification Exam 2025/
2026 – Practice Questions & Verified Answers||Latest
Exam!!!
PSI Mission Statement - Answer-- To promote awareness,
prevention, and treatment of parental mental health issues
related to childbearing in every community worldwide.
What is the time frame of perinatal period? - Answer--
From conception through the first year after giving birth.
PPD changed to what? - Answer-- PMAD (perinatal mood
anxiety disorders).
When can PMADs affect people? - Answer-- At any time
during their lives. However, there is an increased risk
during the perinatal period and symptoms can have a
unique presentation.
Approximately how many infants are born to mothers who
are depressed every year? - Answer-- Approx. more than
400,000.
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What is the most under diagnosed OB complication in
America? - Answer-- Perinatal depression
Can PMADS impact anyone? - Answer-- Yes. They do not
discriminate.
Is money/SES a protective factor for PMADS? - Answer--
NO
According to the Landmark Study of 10,000 US Mothers:
Of the 21% of those mothers diagnosed with PPD, what
was the percentage of women who were diagnosed with
bipolar disorder? - Answer-- 22.6%
According to the Landmark Study of 10,000 US Mothers:
Of the 21% of those mothers diagnosed with PPD, what
was the percentage of women who endorsed thoughts of
harming themselves? - Answer-- 19.3%
List some possible factors in partner depression - Answer-
1. Feeling burdened or trapped;
2. financial responsibility felt as burden;
3. feeling outside the circle of attention;
4. missing sexual relationship
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5. sleep deprivation
6. isolation and loneliness (partner is often closest fried or
poor social support network).
Among sexual minorities, did lesbian women during the
postpartum period have a higher prevalence of PMADs
and increase rates of attempting/considering suicide? -
Answer-- Yes
Among sexual minorities, gay male parents expressed
what? - Answer-1. Less positive feelings at the end of
pregnancy when compared to lesbian mothers;
2. More positive feelings about parenthood in the early
postpartum weeks when compared to heterosexual
parents.
Among sexual minorities, bisexual women have an
increased risk of PMADs if currently partnered with a man
vs a woman or a woman vs a man? - Answer-- Man vs a
woman
Is there sufficient research to determine prevalance of
PMADs with transgestational parents? - Answer-- No;
PSI Perinatal Mental Health Certification Exam 2025/
2026 – Practice Questions & Verified Answers||Latest
Exam!!!
PSI Mission Statement - Answer-- To promote awareness,
prevention, and treatment of parental mental health issues
related to childbearing in every community worldwide.
What is the time frame of perinatal period? - Answer--
From conception through the first year after giving birth.
PPD changed to what? - Answer-- PMAD (perinatal mood
anxiety disorders).
When can PMADs affect people? - Answer-- At any time
during their lives. However, there is an increased risk
during the perinatal period and symptoms can have a
unique presentation.
Approximately how many infants are born to mothers who
are depressed every year? - Answer-- Approx. more than
400,000.
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What is the most under diagnosed OB complication in
America? - Answer-- Perinatal depression
Can PMADS impact anyone? - Answer-- Yes. They do not
discriminate.
Is money/SES a protective factor for PMADS? - Answer--
NO
According to the Landmark Study of 10,000 US Mothers:
Of the 21% of those mothers diagnosed with PPD, what
was the percentage of women who were diagnosed with
bipolar disorder? - Answer-- 22.6%
According to the Landmark Study of 10,000 US Mothers:
Of the 21% of those mothers diagnosed with PPD, what
was the percentage of women who endorsed thoughts of
harming themselves? - Answer-- 19.3%
List some possible factors in partner depression - Answer-
1. Feeling burdened or trapped;
2. financial responsibility felt as burden;
3. feeling outside the circle of attention;
4. missing sexual relationship
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5. sleep deprivation
6. isolation and loneliness (partner is often closest fried or
poor social support network).
Among sexual minorities, did lesbian women during the
postpartum period have a higher prevalence of PMADs
and increase rates of attempting/considering suicide? -
Answer-- Yes
Among sexual minorities, gay male parents expressed
what? - Answer-1. Less positive feelings at the end of
pregnancy when compared to lesbian mothers;
2. More positive feelings about parenthood in the early
postpartum weeks when compared to heterosexual
parents.
Among sexual minorities, bisexual women have an
increased risk of PMADs if currently partnered with a man
vs a woman or a woman vs a man? - Answer-- Man vs a
woman
Is there sufficient research to determine prevalance of
PMADs with transgestational parents? - Answer-- No;
