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Fatherhood in the Shadows
Fathers’ mental health after childbirth is often overlooked. Learn to recognize postpartum depression in fathers and apply evidence-based strategies for care and support.
This one-hour continuing education presentation is designed to provide healthcare professionals, mental health practitioners, and educators with a comprehensive understanding of postpartum depression in fathers. While postpartum depression in mothers has received significant attention, fathers' experiences often go unnoticed or misunderstood. This course aims to bridge this knowledge gap by exploring the causes, symptoms, risk factors, and effective interventions for postpartum depression in fathers.
About this course
This one-hour continuing education presentation is designed to provide healthcare professionals, mental health practitioners, and educators with a comprehensive understanding of postpartum depression in fathers. While postpartum depression in mothers has received significant attention, fathers' experiences often go unnoticed or misunderstood. This course aims to bridge this knowledge gap by exploring the causes, symptoms, risk factors, and effective interventions for postpartum depression in fathers.
What you will learn
At the completion of this activity, healthcare professionals will be able to:
- Define postpartum depression, specifically in fathers
- Describe the assessment of postpartum depression in fathers
- Explain the healthcare provider’s role in the diagnosis and management of postpartum depression
- Describe potential negative impacts of postpartum depression in fathers
- List support strategies for fathers with postpartum depression
Course content
Course details
Accreditations
This course has been reviewed and approved through the rigorous standards of leading accrediting organizations, ensuring your continuing education credits are formally recognized and respected across professions and states.
ASWB
Accredited for social work continuing education
ACCME
Accredited for physician continuing medical education
APA
Accredited for psychology continuing education
ANCC
Accredited for nursing continuing education
Additional Information
- Automatic reporting to CE Broker for participating states
- Instant certificate generation upon course completion
- Credits accepted for license renewal
- Meets state requirements for continuing education
Course Faculty
Learn from leading experts who bring their real-world experience and evidence-based practices to this comprehensive training.
Megan Arbour
Megan Arbour, PhD, CNM, CNE, FACNM, is a certified nurse-midwife and certified nursing educator with a passion for teaching graduate nursing and midwifery students. She grew up in rural western Maine and was an elementary music teacher prior to attending midwifery and nursing school at The Ohio State University in Columbus, Ohio. Her clinical practice involved work at several underserved clinics in Columbus, Ohio, providing midwifery care to those who were unable to access care elsewhere in the impoverished urban location. After 10 years of teaching and leading the midwifery program at the University of Cincinnati, Megan joined the faculty of Frontier Nursing University, where she currently works as an Associate Professor of nursing. It brings her great joy when students demonstrate skill in understanding, synthesizing, and applying scientific evidence in their clinical practice. Through the journey of life, Megan’s passion for trauma-informed teaching and recognizing disability as diversity has grown. She is honoured to share this passion with you. Megan lives in Ohio with her husband, 3 children, and many pets.
Judith Wika
Certified nurse‑midwife and academic faculty with expertise in postpartum and fourth‑trimester care.
Disclosure
Disclosures
Partners requires every individual in a position to control educational content to disclose all financial relationships with ineligible companies that have occurred within the past 24 months. Ineligible companies are organizations whose primary business is producing, marketing, selling, re-selling, or distributing healthcare products used by or on patients.
All relevant financial relationships for anyone with the ability to control the content of this educational activity are listed below and have been mitigated according to Partners policies. Others involved in the planning of this activity have no relevant financial relationships.
- Judith Wika, MSN, CNM, FACNM
Retired Assistant Professor, Shenandoah University
• has no relevant financial relationships with ineligible companies to disclose - Megan Arbour, PhD, RN, CNM, CNE
Associate Professor, Frontier Nursing University
• has no relevant financial relationships with ineligible companies to disclose
Disclosure of Unlabeled Use
This educational activity may contain discussion of published and/or investigational uses of agents that are not indicated by the FDA. The planners of this activity do not recommend the use of any agent outside of the labeled indications.
The opinions expressed in the educational activity are those of the faculty and do not necessarily represent the views of the planners. Please refer to the official prescribing information for each product for discussion of approved indications, contraindications, and warnings.
Disclaimer
Participants have an implied responsibility to use the newly acquired information to enhance patient outcomes and their own professional development. The information presented in this activity is not meant to serve as a guideline for patient management. Any procedures, medications, or other courses of diagnosis or treatment discussed or suggested in this activity should not be used by clinicians without evaluation of their patient’s conditions and possible contraindications and/or dangers in use, review of any applicable manufacturer’s product information, and comparison with
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Association of Social Work Boards
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APA
American Psychological Association
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