Trauma Informed Care in the Perinatal Period – CE Credit – 4 hrs.

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Trauma Informed Care in the Perinatal Period
Edited by Julia Seng and Julie Taylor
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.

There are five main objectives for this reading:

1. To explain what trauma-informed care and trauma-specific interventions are and how these apply to perinatal care and affect professional practice
2. To describe ways to explain how the intergenerational cycles of abuse and psychiatric vulnerability happen
3. To be able to persuade a colleague that focusing on depression in the perinatal period is not enough and that a paradigm shift is needed
4. To become familiar with PTSD symptoms and diagnosis
5. To apply the ideas about attachment, dyadic regulation and the holding environment to your tutor–client relationship