SMC Continuing Education Materials
Survivor Moms: Women’s Stories of Birthing, Mothering and Healing after Sexual Abuse
Sexual abuse and the reactions to it affect mothers’ whole lives—from thinking about having children all the way to being grandmothers. Survivor Moms was written to help break down the isolation pregnant women and their caregivers often feel—as though they were the only ones having to cope with these challenges.
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Survivor Moms: Women’s Stories of Birthing, Mothering and Healing After Sexual Abuse – Study Guide – PDF
This book presents narratives and excerpts from 80 very diverse “survivor moms” and information pertinent to the pre-pregnancy, pregnancy, labor, postpartum, attachment and long-term experiences of women during the childbearing year and beyond.
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Survivor Moms: Women’s Stories of Birthing, Mothering and Healing After Sexual Abuse – CE Credit – 5 hrs.
Continuing Education Credit – 5 hrs. – NOT YET AVAILABLE
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Trauma and Recovery: The Aftermath of Violence – from Domestic Abuse to Political Terror
Trauma and Recovery is revered as the seminal text on understanding trauma survivors. When first published in 1992, it was hailed as a groundbreaking work. In the intervening years…
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Trauma and Recovery: The Aftermath of Violence – from Domestic Abuse to Political Terror – Study Guide – PDF
This is the classic work describing the effects of “domestic captivity” on the survivor. Judith Herman, MD is a feminist psychiatrist on the faculty of Harvard Medical School and Director of Training of the Victims of Violence Program at the Cambridge Hospital.
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Trauma and Recovery: The Aftermath of Violence – from Domestic Abuse to Political Terror – CE Credit – 4 hrs.
Continuing Education Credit – 4 hrs. – NOT YET AVAILABLE
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Trauma Informed Care in the Perinatal Period
Pregnancy is a crucial point of intersection between generations. During pregnancy, women with a childhood maltreatment history have a 12-fold increased risk of post traumatic stress disorder (PTSD). Although awareness of the need for trauma-informed care and trauma-specific interventions is increasing in the fields of addiction and mental health treatment, there are no front-line programmes for the childbearing year that address maltreatment-related PTSD.
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Trauma Informed Care in the Perinatal Period – Study Guide – PDF
This book is written by the members of an international collaboration to break cycles of abuse and psychiatric vulnerability by addressing women’s maltreatment-related posttraumatic stress during the childbearing year. Authors include Julia Seng and Mickey Sperlich from the United States, Julie Taylor and Chris Cuthbert from the United Kingdom, and Heather Rowe and Jane Fisher from Australia. It is about trauma-informed care and inter-professional work.
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Trauma Informed Care in the Perinatal Period – CE Credit – 4 hrs.
Continuing Education Credit – 4 hrs. – NOT YET AVAILABLE
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When Survivors Give Birth: Understanding and Healing the Effects of Early Sexual Abuse on Childbearing Women
When Survivors Give Birth is written for a mixed audience of maternity care professionals and para-professionals, mental health therapists and counselors, and women survivors and their families.
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When Survivors Give Birth: Understanding and Healing the Effects of Early Sexual Abuse on Childbearing Women – Study Guide – PDF
This book also describes trauma, PTSD, and its effects on childbearing, but the focus is on labor and birth. The goal of reading this book is to enrich your understanding of how PTSD may manifest in labor and to imagine ways to help a client prepare.
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When Survivors Give Birth: Understanding and Healing the Effects of Early Sexual Abuse on Childbearing Women – CE Credit – 1 hr.
Continuing Education Credit – 1 hr. – NOT YET AVAILABLE
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