Over 1/3 of women characterize their birth experience as traumatic, and 9% of mothers meet criteria for PSTD in the postpartum period. Certain vulnerable populations are even more at risk of trauma in various forms and cultural factors can strongly influence likelihood of lasting trauma. This presentation will differentiate avoidable, unavoidable and reactivated traumas as well as develop clinician understanding of abstract losses around trauma in the peripartum period.
After this program, clinicians will be able to identify antenatal women at risk for traumatic birth, how trauma history can impact their psychosocial development as it relates to being a pregnant woman in need of prenatal medical care, and how psychoeducation and counseling can prepare them for a positive birth experience in turn reducing likelihood of lingering post-traumatic symptoms. Clinicians will be able to implement informed and relevant psychotherapy interventions to help traumatized postpartum clients and their partners process their experience, reduce traumatic stress symptoms and reduce impact on the mother-baby attachment process.
Learning Objectives:
Describe common types of trauma impacting the perinatal woman; recognizing sociocultural factors that increase vulnerability to traumas
Compare avoidable versus unavoidable traumas, including obstetric violence. Understand and articulate each as distinctly separate from reactivation of past traumas in the peripartum period
Discuss interventions to help mitigate trauma, reduce symptoms and avoid re-traumatization of perinatal clients with trauma.
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