Poster

The purpose of this session is to present multidisciplinary intervention approaches to promote women's health, especially mental health and pregnancy health. The session also describes research findings from studies of multicultural women's samples and describes community-based approaches to assessment and intervention.

Session Objectives: 1. Recognize interventions that have the potential to optimize maternal mental health. 2. Identify exposures that can promote or impede healthy pregnacy outcomes. 3. Construct culturally specific intervention components for pregnant and postpartum women. 4. Describe the associations of substance use and mental health. 5. Recognize multidisciplinary approaches to optimize women's health.