PSI Exam Overview Material from the Manual Complete Solutions
PSI Mission Statement:
- ✔️ To promote awareness, prevention, and treatment of parental mental health issues related to
childbearing in every community worldwide.
Perinatal Period:
- ✔️ Time Frame: From conception through the first year after giving birth.
Terminology:
- ✔️ PPD (Postpartum Depression) changed to PMAD (Perinatal Mood and Anxiety Disorders).
Impact of PMADs:
- ✔️ PMADs can affect people at any time during their lives, but there is an increased risk during the
perinatal period. Symptoms often have a unique presentation.
Statistics:
- ✔️ Approximately more than 400,000 infants are born to mothers who are depressed each year.
- ✔️ Most Undiagnosed OB Complication in America: Perinatal depression.
- ✔️ PMADs impact anyone; they do not discriminate.
- ✔️ Socioeconomic status (SES) is not a protective factor for PMADs.
Prevalence of PMADs:
- ✔️ 1 out of 7 women are affected by PMADs.
- ✔️ 1 out of 10 men are affected by PMADs.
Common Maternal Health Screenings in Prenatal Screening:
1. Gestational hypertension
, 2. Pre-eclampsia
3. Gestational diabetes
4. PMADs
Prenatal Screening Percentages:
- ✔️ Gestational Hypertension: 6-8%
- ✔️ Pre-eclampsia: 6-8%
- ✔️ Gestational Diabetes: 6%
- ✔️ PMADs: 21%
PSI Memorial Quilt:
- ✔️ Established in 2002 to honor the memory of women and children who died as a result of
postpartum mood disorders.
Costs and Risks of Untreated PMADs:
- ✔️ Cost of Untreated PMADs: Leads to increased costs of medical care, inappropriate medical care,
child abuse and neglect, discontinuation of breastfeeding, family dysfunction, and adverse effects on
early brain development.
Risks of Untreated PMADs:
- ✔️ Relationship problems
- ✔️ Poor adherence to medical care
- ✔️ Exacerbation of medical conditions
- ✔️ Intimate partner violence (IPV), separation, divorce
- ✔️ Loss of interpersonal and financial resources
- ✔️ Disability/unemployment
- ✔️ Child neglect and abuse
- ✔️ Developmental delays/behavioral problems
- ✔️ Increased use of tobacco, alcohol, illicit drugs
PSI Mission Statement:
- ✔️ To promote awareness, prevention, and treatment of parental mental health issues related to
childbearing in every community worldwide.
Perinatal Period:
- ✔️ Time Frame: From conception through the first year after giving birth.
Terminology:
- ✔️ PPD (Postpartum Depression) changed to PMAD (Perinatal Mood and Anxiety Disorders).
Impact of PMADs:
- ✔️ PMADs can affect people at any time during their lives, but there is an increased risk during the
perinatal period. Symptoms often have a unique presentation.
Statistics:
- ✔️ Approximately more than 400,000 infants are born to mothers who are depressed each year.
- ✔️ Most Undiagnosed OB Complication in America: Perinatal depression.
- ✔️ PMADs impact anyone; they do not discriminate.
- ✔️ Socioeconomic status (SES) is not a protective factor for PMADs.
Prevalence of PMADs:
- ✔️ 1 out of 7 women are affected by PMADs.
- ✔️ 1 out of 10 men are affected by PMADs.
Common Maternal Health Screenings in Prenatal Screening:
1. Gestational hypertension
, 2. Pre-eclampsia
3. Gestational diabetes
4. PMADs
Prenatal Screening Percentages:
- ✔️ Gestational Hypertension: 6-8%
- ✔️ Pre-eclampsia: 6-8%
- ✔️ Gestational Diabetes: 6%
- ✔️ PMADs: 21%
PSI Memorial Quilt:
- ✔️ Established in 2002 to honor the memory of women and children who died as a result of
postpartum mood disorders.
Costs and Risks of Untreated PMADs:
- ✔️ Cost of Untreated PMADs: Leads to increased costs of medical care, inappropriate medical care,
child abuse and neglect, discontinuation of breastfeeding, family dysfunction, and adverse effects on
early brain development.
Risks of Untreated PMADs:
- ✔️ Relationship problems
- ✔️ Poor adherence to medical care
- ✔️ Exacerbation of medical conditions
- ✔️ Intimate partner violence (IPV), separation, divorce
- ✔️ Loss of interpersonal and financial resources
- ✔️ Disability/unemployment
- ✔️ Child neglect and abuse
- ✔️ Developmental delays/behavioral problems
- ✔️ Increased use of tobacco, alcohol, illicit drugs
