Chapter 9 252 knowledge to address these matters. Participants of the MIND-panel also indicated that general practitioners, psychiatric nurses and persons with lived experiences were eligible to have conversations about family planning with (Chapter 3). Ideally, students in their psychiatry clerkship are routinely educated on the relevance of perinatal mental health for patients and future generations73. Figure 9.5 - Discussion tool. This ensures that all Dutch physicians, psychiatrists as well as general practitioners, gynecologists and pediatricians are educated on women’s mental health in relation to psychiatric vulnerability. Although not all psychiatrists treat women (or men) of reproductive age, this topic of conversation may fit any psychiatrist. As shown in Figure 9.6, all life stages are represented in the cycle of transgenerational transmission of psychiatric disorders and trauma, stressing the need to include this topic in general psychiatric residency programs. As the Dutch psychiatry residency program has a specific focus on lifespan psychiatry, reproductive health makes a perfect fit (Opleidingsplan Psychiatrie).
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