The Pregnancy & Postpartum Anxiety Workbook
Practical Skills to Help You Overcome Anxiety, Worry, Panic Attacks, Obsession and Compulsions
By authors: Pamela S. Wiegartz, Ph.D. and Kevin L. Gyoerkoe, Psy.D.
13 Diagnosing CEU’s
Course Description
New moms have a lot to be anxious about, and it's perfectly natural to have some fears
during and after pregnancy. The problem is anxiety can grow, disrupting your daily life
and keeping you from enjoying motherhood. The Pregnancy and Postpartum Anxiety
Workbook provides proven-effective strategies drawn from cognitive behavioral therapy
(CBT) for keeping anxious thoughts at bay and getting back to the productive and
positive thinking you've been missing. Through a series of easy exercises and
worksheets, you'll learn skills for relaxing yourself when you feel stressed. You'll also
learn to reduce the frequency and intensity of anxious feelings many pregnant women
and mothers of infants face. The book also includes a chapter that offers tips to help
fathers understand and support their partners.
Objectives
 Understand anxiety during pregnancy and the postpartum period
 Learn treatment options
 Learn cognitive behavioral techniques
 Learn to assess anxiety
 Learn to develop relation skills
 Learn to apply cognitive behavioral therapy to specific anxiety problems
 Discover how to cope wit disturbing thoughts including worry and trauma
 Learn to maintain positive changes
 Dads! Discover the 8 keys for coping well
 Overview of Postpartum depression
About the Authors
Pamela S. Wiegartz, Ph.D., was an associate professor at the University of Illinois at
Chicago where she taught courses on cognitive behavioral therapy (CBT) and directed
the obsessive-compulsive disorder (OCD) clinic for over a decade. She is a certified
fellow of the Academy of Cognitive Therapy and serves on the scientific advisory board
of OCD Chicago. Wiegartz is also actively involved in clinical research and is a cognitive
behavioral consultant on grant-funded projects related to perinatal depression
management and self-care. A licensed clinical psychologist, she maintains a practice
dedicated to treating individuals with anxiety disorders in the greater Boston area. She is
coauthor of 10 Simple Solutions to Worry.