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📘 Course Type: Reading-based, asynchronous 

🕓 Length: 3 CE credits 

🎓 Level: Intermediate

💻 Format: Online, self-paced  

⭐ Price: $18

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SWTP CEUs is ASWB ACE Provider #2486

🌎 Accepted for CE credit across the U.S. and Canada (except New York) 

💬 30,000+ social workers trust SWTP for professional growth 

Course curriculum

    1. Introduction

    2. Recognizing the Clinical Picture

    3. Screening in Rooms That Aren't Therapy Rooms

    4. Risk, Reality Testing, and Clinical Judgment

    5. The Conditions That Shape the Plan

    6. Intervention and Scope

    7. Building the Referral Map and Staying in the Work

    8. Posttest

    9. Course Evaluation

About this course

  • $18.00
  • 9 lessons

Learning Objectives

By the end of this course, you will be able to:

  • Differentiate postpartum depression, postpartum anxiety, postpartum OCD, and postpartum psychosis by symptom presentation, clinical features, and onset patterns.

  • Apply validated perinatal screening instruments across practice settings.

  • Assess postpartum risk by distinguishing ego-dystonic intrusive thoughts from psychotic symptoms requiring emergency response.

  • Analyze how structural and social conditions shape postpartum outcomes for clients in marginalized communities.

  • Select interventions, referral pathways, and documentation practices matched to symptom severity, client context, and available systems of care.

  • Identify indicators that a clinician's own reproductive history is affecting perinatal clinical work and describe appropriate supervisory responses.

Course Details

ACCREDITATION SWTP CEUs (provider number 2486), is approved as an ACE provider to offer social work continuing education by the Association of Social Work Boards (ASWB) Approved Continuing Education (ACE) program. Regulatory boards are the final authority on courses accepted for continuing education credit. ACE provider approval period: 10/24/2025 - 10/24/2026. Social workers completing this course receive 3 clinical continuing education credit.

POSTTEST REQUIREMENTS A 20-question posttest follows the course materials. A passing score of 80% is required to receive CE credit. Retakes are available if the passing score is not met.

CERTIFICATES To earn CE credit, participants must complete the full course, achieve a passing score of 80% on the posttest, and submit the course evaluation. Certificates of completion are issued automatically upon successful completion.

ASSIGNMENTS No outside assignments are required for this course.

INSTRUCTOR SWTP CEUs Director Will Baum, LCSW, has over 20 years of experience in clinical practice and social work education. He brings both practical expertise and teaching experience to continuing education course development.

REFUND POLICY Full refunds are available for any reason if requested within 7 days of purchase and before the course is completed. To request a refund, please email [email protected]. Refunds will be processed to the original payment method within 5–7 business days.

CANCELLATION POLICY If SWTP CEUs cancels or withdraws a course for any reason, all registered learners will receive a full refund.

ACCESSIBILITY & ACCOMODATIONS SWTP CEUs is committed to ensuring full access to all learners. If you require accommodations to participate in this course, please contact us at [email protected] before or during your enrollment. We will make every reasonable effort to meet accessibility needs.

SYSTEM REQUIREMENTS This self-paced online course can be completed on any modern computer or mobile device with reliable internet access. You will need an updated web browser (Chrome, Safari, Firefox, or Edge recommended).

IMPORTANT NOTE The socialworktestprep.com licensure preparation program and materials associated with it were not included in the Association of Social Work Boards Approved Continuing Education (ACE) review and are not approved by ASWB for continuing education nor endorsed by ASWB in any manner.



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