PMH-C ACTUAL EXAMS SCRIPTS ALL QUESTIONS
AND ANSWERS SURE A+
✔✔Couple's Therapy - ✔✔Parter support has measurable effect on women with PMADs
Marital disharmony is the most commonly cited non-biological cause of PPD
Mother feels like it is not just her problem
Partner is able to take a role in treatment and take an active support role
Therapist can assess relationship
Therapist can observe interactions with the baby, cooperation with each other
Challenges:
Childcare
Parter willingness to attend therapy
Neutrality by therapist
Secret-keeping by therapist
DV
✔✔Impact on bonding and attachment - ✔✔Disregulated sensitivity and responses
Mother's self-criticism
Avoidance of connection
Anxious mothering
, Isolation from social support
✔✔Psychoeducation - ✔✔Self-care
Responsiveness/reactions
Anxiety reduction techniques
Symptoms vs identity
Baby-care and soothing
Communication skills
Developing support system
Parenting techniques
✔✔Positive attachment goals - ✔✔Experience infant as vital, contributing individual in
the relationship
Able to experience infant's behavior without insecure projection and negative
interpretation
Able to accept infant's behavior and feelings and tolerate her own feelings with flexibility
and consistency (containing)
Develop insight, patience, and acceptance
✔✔Complementary treatments - ✔✔Light therapy
Acupuncture
Aromatherapy
Massage
Herbal supplements
"natural" or holistic
In control of the process
Fear of side effects of meds
✔✔Bright Light Therapy - ✔✔Pregnant women showed improvement in depressive
symptoms
Feed baby by a window
✔✔Prenatal Massage - ✔✔Less depression, anxiety, and anger
Parter gives the massage
Improves relationship
✔✔Massage and Yoga - ✔✔Decrease on depression, anxiety and back and leg pain
and improved relationship
Improved mindfulness
Greater gestational age and birthweight
AND ANSWERS SURE A+
✔✔Couple's Therapy - ✔✔Parter support has measurable effect on women with PMADs
Marital disharmony is the most commonly cited non-biological cause of PPD
Mother feels like it is not just her problem
Partner is able to take a role in treatment and take an active support role
Therapist can assess relationship
Therapist can observe interactions with the baby, cooperation with each other
Challenges:
Childcare
Parter willingness to attend therapy
Neutrality by therapist
Secret-keeping by therapist
DV
✔✔Impact on bonding and attachment - ✔✔Disregulated sensitivity and responses
Mother's self-criticism
Avoidance of connection
Anxious mothering
, Isolation from social support
✔✔Psychoeducation - ✔✔Self-care
Responsiveness/reactions
Anxiety reduction techniques
Symptoms vs identity
Baby-care and soothing
Communication skills
Developing support system
Parenting techniques
✔✔Positive attachment goals - ✔✔Experience infant as vital, contributing individual in
the relationship
Able to experience infant's behavior without insecure projection and negative
interpretation
Able to accept infant's behavior and feelings and tolerate her own feelings with flexibility
and consistency (containing)
Develop insight, patience, and acceptance
✔✔Complementary treatments - ✔✔Light therapy
Acupuncture
Aromatherapy
Massage
Herbal supplements
"natural" or holistic
In control of the process
Fear of side effects of meds
✔✔Bright Light Therapy - ✔✔Pregnant women showed improvement in depressive
symptoms
Feed baby by a window
✔✔Prenatal Massage - ✔✔Less depression, anxiety, and anger
Parter gives the massage
Improves relationship
✔✔Massage and Yoga - ✔✔Decrease on depression, anxiety and back and leg pain
and improved relationship
Improved mindfulness
Greater gestational age and birthweight
