PERC Center
Perinatal Mental Health & Substance Use Education, Research & Clinical Consultation Center
UW Psychiatry & Behavioral Sciences

Care Guide

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• Comprehensive Perinatal Mental Health Care Guide​

  • ​Peripartum Agitation​

  • ​Perinatal Anxiety

  • Assessing Safety

  • Perinatal Bipolar Disorder

  • Perinatal Cannabis Use

  • Perinatal Depression

  • Perinatal Eating Disorders

  • Family Assessment

  • Hormones and Mood

  • Pregnancy Loss

  • Perinatal OCD

  • Perinatal Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder

  • Postpartum Psychosis

  • Perinatal Schizophrenia
  • Sleep in the Perinatal Period
  • Substance Use in Pregnancy
  • Perinatal ADHD
  • ​Prescribing in the Perinatal Period​

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Screening Tools​​

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• English​

  • ADHD Self-Report Scales (ASRS)

  • Ask Suicide-Screening Questions (ASQ) Tool & Guide (Multiple Languages)

  • Columbia-Suicide Severity Rating Scale (C-SSRS)

  • Edinburgh Postnatal Depression Scale (EPDS)

  • General Anxiety Disorder-7 (GAD-7)

  • Mood Disorder Questionnaire (MDQ)​

  • National Institute of Drug Abuse (NIDA) Quick Screen

  • Patient Health Questionnaire-9 (PHQ-9)

  • PTSD Checklist for DSM-5 (PCL-5)

  • Yale-Brown Obsessive Compulsive Scale (Y-BOCS)

• Spanish​​

  • Ask Suicide-Screening Questions (ASQ) Tool & Guide / Herramienta para la Detección del Riesgo de Suicidio

  • Columbia-Suicide Severity Rating Scale (C-SSRS) / Columbia-Escala de Severidad Suicida

  • General Anxiety Disorder-7 (GAD-7) / Trastorno de Ansiedad Generalizada

  • Edinburgh Postnatal Depression Scale (EPDS) / Escala Edinburgh para la Depresión Postnatal

  • Mood Disorder Questionnaire (MDQ) / Cuestionario de Trastornos del Humor

  • Patient Health Questionnaire-9 (PHQ-9) / Cuestionario sobre la Salud del Paciente-9

 

More Resources for Providers

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• Perinatal Mental Health Resources

• Seattle Children's Hospital Primary Care Principles for Child Mental Health

• Stanley-Brown Safety Plan Template

• NCDSV Domestic Violence Safety Plan Template

• COVID-19 Information for Providers

• EthnoMed

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