OVERVIEW

Best Practices for Management of Mental Health in Women: Focusing on Mood Disorders Throughout the Lifespan is organized by CME Institute of Physicians Postgraduate Press, Inc. (PPP).

Activity opens: 07/25/2023
Activity expires: 08/01/2024

Program Description:
As women experience mood symptoms throughout their reproductive years and during menopausal transitions, they often have regular contact with health care providers, providing an opportunity for treatment intervention during this complex period of a woman’s life and involving them in their own treatment program so that they can be as remitted as possible and lead a full life. It is important that clinicians know how to differentiate diagnoses and understand which treatment options are available and how to discuss them with women. In this video Drs Marlene Freeman, MD, Professor of Psychiatry at Harvard Medical School, and Kathryn Abel, MA, MBBS, FRCP, PhD, Professor of Psychological Medicine, University of Manchester, present 3 cases that address menstrual cycle-related mood disorders, MDD and other psychiatric disorders across the reproductive lifespan, and menopausal transition and mood symptoms and provide guideline recommendations and best practices for the management of these issues. With many treatment options available to women, from antidepressants to hormone therapy to new treatment options including neurosteroids, clinicians can help women make the best decisions for themselves and create patient-centered, individualized, evidence-based treatment plans to optimize outcomes across their lifespans.

Learning Objectives:
• Appraise the influence of the reproductive stage on mood disorders and comorbid psychiatric conditions in women.
• Assess factors involved in the diagnoses of mood disorders in women and the differential diagnoses and common comorbidities.
• Summarize evidence-based approaches for diagnosing and treating mood disorders in women.