Behavioral Health Education Center of Nebraska

- Career Pathways Overview
- - Behavioral Health Career Pathways
    Behavioral health professionals share what is unique about their profession and how it is different from other behavioral health careers.
  - BHECN App
    The BHECN Behavioral Health Mentorship & Supervision App is a resource for anyone interested in behavioral health careers in Nebraska.
- - Lifelong Learning Fund
    BHECN's Lifelong Learning fund supports educational and career engagement opportunities to help grow our state's behavioral health workforce.
  - BHECN Scholars
    The BHECN Scholars program supports undergraduate seniors who plan to pursue master’s degrees in Nebraska-based behavioral health programs.
  - Correctional Sites Internship Program
    With clinical supervision, trainees in this internship program provide direct care to inmates and individuals needing mental health care.
  - Rural and Underserved Trainee Stipend Program
    In BHECN’s Rural and Underserved Trainee Stipend Program, graduate-level student trainees can apply to receive a stipend for their experiences.
- Education and Training Overview
- - Project PEACE
    The Project PEACE Webinar Series is a series of webinars recorded by psychiatry residents on rotation with BHECN.
  - Core Topics
    This accredited continuing education activity is designed for Behavioral Health providers to include psychologists, nurses, therapists, and social workers.
  - DSM-5 TR
    This webinar reviews revisions from the DSM-5 to the DSM-5-TR with speakers Krista Fritson, PsyD and Arden Szepe, PhD, NCC.
  - Heal the Healer
    Heal the Healer is a free webinar series that addresses incivility and bullying in the workplace designed for nurses and interested healthcare professionals.
- - Training Partnerships
    BHECN establishes partnerships to create and disseminate educational materials for the development of the behavioral health workforce.
  - Nebraska Behavioral Health Education Partnership
    BHECN partners with the 19 academic institutions to track the number of graduate-level behavioral health education students graduating and staying in Nebraska.
  - The BHECN Serenity Project
    The BHECN Serenity Project is a series of free online yoga and meditation sessions in partnership with Lotus House of Yoga.
- Research, Data & Policy Overview
- Nebraska Behavioral Health Workforce Dashboard
  The dashboard helps policy makers, employers, and behavioral health care stakeholders understand the state of the behavioral health workforce.
- Legislative Reports
  BHECN's biennial legislative reports examine the characteristics of actively practicing behavioral health providers in Nebraska.
- Nebraska Behavioral Health Policy Forum
  This forum discussed how investments in BHECN are being used to recruit, train, and retain behavioral health and rural healthcare providers across Nebraska.
- ARPA
  Access information related BHECN’s allocation of $25.5 million in American Rescue Plan Act (ARPA) dollars to Nebraska behavioral health providers.
- Rural Sites Overview
- BHECN Panhandle
  BHECN Panhandle serves as a rural hub that supports our mission of recruitment and retention of behavioral health professionals across Nebraska.
- BHECN Central
  BHECN Central serves as a satellite location for training and workforce development in the central parts of the state.
- BHECN Northeast
  BHECN Northeast is a satellite location based at Wayne State College that facilitates training and workforce development in Northeast Nebraska.
BHECN Model

— Behavioral Health Education Center of Nebraska — Education and Training — Webinars & Online Training — Project PEACE -- The Basics of Perinatal Psychiatry for the Non-Psychiatric Practitioner

Project PEACE -- The Basics of Perinatal Psychiatry for the Non-Psychiatric Practitioner

Release Date: 9/5/2023
Expiration Date: 9/4/2024

TARGET AUDIENCE

This accredited continuing education activity is designed for primary care providers (physicians, NPs, PAs), nurses (RNs), psychologists, counselors, and social workers.

CID: 59012

The estimated time to complete this enduring material is 60 minutes.

EDUCATIONAL OBJECTIVES

At the conclusion of this enduring material, the participants should be better able to:

Discuss the prevalence and the principles of basic management of perinatal depressive disorder, perinatal obsessive-compulsive disorder, and postpartum psychosis.
Describe the basic components of the risk-risk discussion of the treatment of perinatal mental illness with the patient.
Recognize the urgency of postpartum psychosis.

See Continuing Education Instructions.

Presented by Rebecca Leval, MD, MPH, Creighton Resident