PMH-C EXAM
ACTUAL
QUESTIONS AND
CORRECT
ANSWERS LATEST
UPDATE 2025
Recent/upcoming deployment
,Potential lack of emotional support from partner
Fear for welfare or self or partner
Living without partner
Single parenting
Concerns about childcare
Inadequate support:
Location away from friends and family
Possibility of no established relationships with recent move
Lack of providers who understand military culture
Lack of providers for beneficiaries
Lack of providers who accept insurance
Lack of peer support due to "army strong" mentality
Lack of disclosure to others due to "small town"
Lack of ability to provide peer support due to own needs
Focus often on active duty member's psychological issuesv - ✔✔- ACTUAL
ANSWER- Military Stressors
Founder of PSI - ✔✔- ACTUAL ANSWER- Jane Honikman
1987 - ✔✔- ACTUAL ANSWER- What year was PSI established?
French psychiatrist who wrote first treatise on puerperal (about six weeks after
childbirth) mental illness - ✔✔- ACTUAL ANSWER- Louis Victor Marce
Father of Postpartum Psychiatric Illness
Wrote book: Postpartum Psychiatric Problems
Founded the Marce Society
Advocate of research, treatment and social support movement - ✔✔- ACTUAL
ANSWER- James A. Hamilton
Depression After Delivery (USA) - ✔✔- ACTUAL ANSWER- DAD
Association for Post Natal Illness (England) - ✔✔- ACTUAL ANSWER- APNI
Post and Ante Natal Depression Association (Australia) - ✔✔- ACTUAL
ANSWER- PANDA
,Postpartum Education for Parents (USA) - ✔✔- ACTUAL ANSWER- Postpartum
Education for Parents
Social support - ✔✔- ACTUAL ANSWER- Most important part of mental health
for women, children, and families
Over 40 countries - ✔✔- ACTUAL ANSWER- How many countries does PSI
have members in?
21% - ✔✔- ACTUAL ANSWER- What percentage of women will experience
postpartum depression?
20% - ✔✔- ACTUAL ANSWER- What percentage of pregnant woman will
experience moderate to severe symptoms of depression and/or anxiety?
Less than 86% - ✔✔- ACTUAL ANSWER- What percentage of pregnant women
with psychiatric diagnosis were treated?
Over 50% - ✔✔- ACTUAL ANSWER- What percentage of women on
antidepressants were symptomatic due to suboptimal treatment?
The entire time frame from pregnancy through the first year after giving birth -
✔✔- ACTUAL ANSWER- The perinatal period
Perinatal Mood (depression and bipolar) Anxiety (GAD, panic, OCD, PTSD)
Disorders - ✔✔- ACTUAL ANSWER- PMAD
50% - ✔✔- ACTUAL ANSWER- What percentage of pregnancies are
unplanned?
Premenstrual dysphoric disorder
Sensitive to hormonal changes
Risk factor for PMAD - ✔✔- ACTUAL ANSWER- PMDD
Depression
Anxiety and Panic disorder
, OCD
PTSD
Perinatal Bipolar
Psychosis - ✔✔- ACTUAL ANSWER- What disorders classify as a PMAD?
Most under diagnosed obstetric complication in America
Increased costs of medical care
Inappropriate medical care
Child abuse and neglect
Discontinuation of breastfeeding
Family dysfunction
Adversely affects early brain development
40% of cases are detected and diagnosed
60% receive treatment - ✔✔- ACTUAL ANSWER- Perinatal depression
15.8% - ✔✔- ACTUAL ANSWER- Prevalence for Prenatal anxiety
8% - 20% - ✔✔- ACTUAL ANSWER- Prevalence for postpartum anxiety
1 in 10 men will get anxiety/depression
Fathers with higher ACE scores reported more pregnancy-related anxiety than
did fathers with lower scores at all time points
Reported more depressive feelings during pregnancy
9.2% had depression prenatally
Maternal depression increased the risk of paternal depression
- Initial high after birth may give way to depression
- Masked male depression (substance use, irritable, aggressive)
- Distancing
- Distractions and habits - ✔✔- ACTUAL ANSWER- PMADs in Fathers
ACTUAL
QUESTIONS AND
CORRECT
ANSWERS LATEST
UPDATE 2025
Recent/upcoming deployment
,Potential lack of emotional support from partner
Fear for welfare or self or partner
Living without partner
Single parenting
Concerns about childcare
Inadequate support:
Location away from friends and family
Possibility of no established relationships with recent move
Lack of providers who understand military culture
Lack of providers for beneficiaries
Lack of providers who accept insurance
Lack of peer support due to "army strong" mentality
Lack of disclosure to others due to "small town"
Lack of ability to provide peer support due to own needs
Focus often on active duty member's psychological issuesv - ✔✔- ACTUAL
ANSWER- Military Stressors
Founder of PSI - ✔✔- ACTUAL ANSWER- Jane Honikman
1987 - ✔✔- ACTUAL ANSWER- What year was PSI established?
French psychiatrist who wrote first treatise on puerperal (about six weeks after
childbirth) mental illness - ✔✔- ACTUAL ANSWER- Louis Victor Marce
Father of Postpartum Psychiatric Illness
Wrote book: Postpartum Psychiatric Problems
Founded the Marce Society
Advocate of research, treatment and social support movement - ✔✔- ACTUAL
ANSWER- James A. Hamilton
Depression After Delivery (USA) - ✔✔- ACTUAL ANSWER- DAD
Association for Post Natal Illness (England) - ✔✔- ACTUAL ANSWER- APNI
Post and Ante Natal Depression Association (Australia) - ✔✔- ACTUAL
ANSWER- PANDA
,Postpartum Education for Parents (USA) - ✔✔- ACTUAL ANSWER- Postpartum
Education for Parents
Social support - ✔✔- ACTUAL ANSWER- Most important part of mental health
for women, children, and families
Over 40 countries - ✔✔- ACTUAL ANSWER- How many countries does PSI
have members in?
21% - ✔✔- ACTUAL ANSWER- What percentage of women will experience
postpartum depression?
20% - ✔✔- ACTUAL ANSWER- What percentage of pregnant woman will
experience moderate to severe symptoms of depression and/or anxiety?
Less than 86% - ✔✔- ACTUAL ANSWER- What percentage of pregnant women
with psychiatric diagnosis were treated?
Over 50% - ✔✔- ACTUAL ANSWER- What percentage of women on
antidepressants were symptomatic due to suboptimal treatment?
The entire time frame from pregnancy through the first year after giving birth -
✔✔- ACTUAL ANSWER- The perinatal period
Perinatal Mood (depression and bipolar) Anxiety (GAD, panic, OCD, PTSD)
Disorders - ✔✔- ACTUAL ANSWER- PMAD
50% - ✔✔- ACTUAL ANSWER- What percentage of pregnancies are
unplanned?
Premenstrual dysphoric disorder
Sensitive to hormonal changes
Risk factor for PMAD - ✔✔- ACTUAL ANSWER- PMDD
Depression
Anxiety and Panic disorder
, OCD
PTSD
Perinatal Bipolar
Psychosis - ✔✔- ACTUAL ANSWER- What disorders classify as a PMAD?
Most under diagnosed obstetric complication in America
Increased costs of medical care
Inappropriate medical care
Child abuse and neglect
Discontinuation of breastfeeding
Family dysfunction
Adversely affects early brain development
40% of cases are detected and diagnosed
60% receive treatment - ✔✔- ACTUAL ANSWER- Perinatal depression
15.8% - ✔✔- ACTUAL ANSWER- Prevalence for Prenatal anxiety
8% - 20% - ✔✔- ACTUAL ANSWER- Prevalence for postpartum anxiety
1 in 10 men will get anxiety/depression
Fathers with higher ACE scores reported more pregnancy-related anxiety than
did fathers with lower scores at all time points
Reported more depressive feelings during pregnancy
9.2% had depression prenatally
Maternal depression increased the risk of paternal depression
- Initial high after birth may give way to depression
- Masked male depression (substance use, irritable, aggressive)
- Distancing
- Distractions and habits - ✔✔- ACTUAL ANSWER- PMADs in Fathers
