Best Practices: An Integrative Approach to Optimizing Maternal Well-Being (1 CE )
Sierra Tucson & Addiction Professional Webinar
DATE: Thursday, April 15, 2021
1:00 p.m. ET, 12:00 p.m. CT, 11:00 a.m. MT, 10:00 a.m. PT (also Az Time)
You may log in 15 minutes before the event but must stay for the full event to receive CE credit. There is no cost to attend this one-hour presentation.
Best Practices: An Integrative Approach to Optimizing Maternal Well-Being
Maternal mental health impacts not only the mother but also her baby and family. Perinatal mood disorders are often underdiagnosed and under recognized. Up to 20% of women suffer from postpartum depression, yet, health care provider knowledge is limited on how to address this serious condition. The COVID-19 pandemic has contributed to an increasingly challenging postpartum period for mothers. Health care providers are in an optimal position to screen, evaluate, refer, and treat maternal mental health issues. An integrative treatment approach, ranging from various evidence based modalities, has been instrumental in optimizing maternal mental health.
Objectives:
- Describe the symptoms of postpartum depression and differentiate between postpartum anxiety and postpartum psychosis
- Describe 2 evidence based interventions for postpartum depression
- Describe how to screen for postpartum depression
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Valerie M. Kading, DNP, MBA, MSN, PMHNP-BC
CEO, Sierra Tucson
Dr. Valerie Kading is the CEO of Sierra Tucson, where she provides the strategic vision to ensure that the facility’s patients and their families receive the most innovative, compassionate, and leading medical and psychiatric treatment for trauma, addiction, and other mental health conditions from a world-class staff of clinicians and behavioral health professionals.
Dr. Kading joined Sierra Tucson in 2015, where she rose to become chief medical operations officer, then interim chief medical officer, chief operations officer, and ultimately Group Chief Executive Officer for the entire 258-bed Sierra Tucson Group – Sierra Tucson in Arizona, along with Sierra by the Sea and Sunrise Ranch in California.
Dr. Kading brings to Sierra Tucson a special interest in women’s mental health including perinatal mood disorders, maternal well-being, and postpartum depression. In addition, she has deep expertise in addressing the trauma of Adverse Childhood Experiences (ACES) that can lead to substance use and other issues in adulthood. Dr. Kading has written articles for multiple professional journals. She has led a variety of webinars and CE events on topics ranging from adverse childhood experiences to compassion fatigue and provider resilience for organizations including: Recovery Plus Conference, London, United Kingdom; Southern Arizona Advanced Practice/Nurse Practitioner’s Primary Care Conferences; Tucson Postpartum Coalition; C4 Conferences; Philippine Nurses Association; and the University of Arizona.
Dr. Kading graduated with honors from New Mexico State University at Las Cruces, New Mexico, with a Doctor of Nursing Practice degree. Her doctoral studies focused on optimizing health care systems, translational methods, and evidence-based practice, health care organization innovation, epigenetics, utilization of informatics in healthcare, and interdisciplinary collaboration. Her dissertation focused on increasing health care provider knowledge on perinatal depression, and she created a web-based educational program for health care providers aimed at facilitating evidence-based treatment to perinatal women.
Dr. Kading graduated with honors from the University of Arizona with a master’s degree in nursing, a Bachelor of Science in Nursing, and a bachelor’s degree in psychology. Dr. Kading also received her Master of Business Administration degree from the University of Arizona. In 2006, she founded and served as president of the Southern Arizona Advanced Practice Nurse – Nurse Practitioner Society.
She has received recognition with honors and awards throughout her career, including most recently “Leaders to Watch in 2021” by AZ Business, “The 10 Most Admired Women Leaders in Business, 2020” by CIO Views and the “Advocate State Award for Excellence” from the American Association of Nurse Practitioners.
This is a Sierra Tucson co-hosted webinar with Addiction Professionals
Please contact Melissa Pangaro: mpangaro@NACCME.com with any registration and education credits requests.
Addiction Professionals - NAADAC
Addiction Professionals
This course has been approved by NACCME, LLC, as a NAADAC Approved Education Provider, for educational credits. NAADAC Provider #182840. NACCME is responsible for all aspects of the programing.
About NAADAC
NAADAC, the Association for Addiction Professionals, represents the professional interests of more than 85,000 addiction counselors, educators and other addiction-focused health care professionals in the United States, Canada and abroad. NAADAC’s members are addiction counselors, educators and other addiction-focused health care professionals, who specialize in addiction prevention, treatment, recovery support and education. An important part of the healthcare continuum, NAADAC members and its 47 state affiliates work to create healthier individuals, families and communities through prevention, intervention, quality treatment and recovery support.
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