Webinar - Membership Meeting - Webinar
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"Criminally Charged: Postpartum Psychosis - Facts and Fictions"
with Diana Lynn Barnes, Psy.D., PMH-C
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There are more psychiatric hospital admissions around the childbearing years than at any other time in the female life cycle. Although postpartum psychosis is rare, occurring in only 1 or 2 out of every thousand women who give birth, it is a potentially life-threatening illness that can put both mother and infant at risk of harm. Psychosis in women who have given birth looks characteristically different than for women who are not postpartum, and as a result, is often misdiagnosed. This presentation covers the constellation of symptoms and risk factors to consider when assessing and diagnosing. Discussion will include the relationship between childhood trauma and vulnerability to psychotic illness during the postpartum period along with the issues that surface when women are criminally charged.
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Learning Objectives
In successfully completing and attending this presentation, participants will be able to:
1. Use a woman's reproductive history to identify at least 2 risks for serious
perinatal illness.
2. Discuss and identify 2 neurobiological impacts of childhood trauma on
reproductive mental health.
3. List 5 symptoms of postpartum psychosis.
4. Describe the relationship between postpartum psychosis and altruistic filicide.
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Diana Lynn Barnes Psy.D., PMH-C, is an internationally recognized expert on all facets of women's reproductive mental health with a specialized understanding of child-bearing related illness. A past president of Postpartum Support International, she currently sits on their Advisory Board. She is also a board member of the North American Society of Psychosocial Obstetrics and Gynecology and the Chair of the special interest group on forensics and maternal mental illness for the International Maree Society. Dr. Barnes wrote the assessment and treatment guidelines for postpartum depression for the Perinatal Advisory Council of Los Angeles County and is the editor and a contributing author to the definitive text Women’s Reproductive Mental Health Across the Lifespan published by Springer. She is widely published in the academic literature and her paper on understanding pregnancy denial as a dissociative disorder is published in the Archives of Women's Mental Health. She has authored numerous chapters in other books on perinatal mood and anxiety disorders and women's mental health. ln addition to an active clinical practice spanning 30 years, Dr. Barnes is frequently retained by legal counsel as a forensic expert on cases where women have been criminally charged because of acts against their children while in the throes of perinatal illness. She is the 2009 recipient of a Lifetime Achievement Award from the Eli Lilly Foundation for her contributions to the field of maternal mental illness. Dr. Barnes practices in Sherman Oaks.
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When: Sunday, September 14, 2025
Time:
8:30am-9am Check-In/Light Breakfast*
9am-9:30am Membership Meeting/
Chapter Announcements*
9:30-11am CE/Speaker Presentation
11am-11:15am Opportunity Drawing/
Private Practice Announcements*
11:15am-11:45am Break*
11:45am-1:45pm Board Meeting (in-person)*
*=portion of course not eligible for CE's
This course is intended for beginning to advanced mental health professionals.
Course meets the qualifications for 1.5 hours of continuing education credit for LMFTs, LCSWs, LPCCs, and/or LEPs required by the California Board of Behavioral Sciences. Course evaluations will be sent and CE completion certificates will be awarded to participants that attend the entire presentation and complete the course evaluation within 48 hours of the speaker presentation.
Place:
Webinar on Zoom The link will be sent in the confirmation email to those that register for the webinar option. A reminder email will also be sent out a day before.
Please note the following:
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Price/Registration:
SFV-CAMFT chapter members
In-person
$25 (online until Friday, Sept 5th at 11:59pm)
$35 (online week of event, Sept 6th - Sept 12th)
Non chapter members
In-person
$35 (online until Friday, Sept 5th at 11:59pm)
$45 (online week of event, Sept 6th to Sept 12th)
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Requests for refunds must be in writing and received by SFV-CAMFT before one week prior to the event. A $2 administrative fee will be deducted for cancellation of a paid event, through the cancellation deadline. There will be no changes or cancellations received after one week prior to the event (this includes no shows and arriving late to the presentation on the day of the event). The President has discretion to issue refunds that do not comply with the policy. To request a refund, email sfv.camft@gmail.com.
The personal values and beliefs expressed by presenter(s) are their own and do not necessarily reflect those of the San Fernando Valley Chapter of the California Association of Marriage and Family Therapists (SFV-CAMFT). SFV-CAMFT is committed to fostering a diverse and inclusive professional community and does not endorse any specific personal viewpoints shared by presenters.
CAMFT- approved Continuing Education Provider #62281
SFV-CAMFT is approved by the California Association of Marriage and Family Therapists to sponsor continuing education for Marriage & Family Therapists. SFV-CAMFT maintains responsibility for this program/course and its content.
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