Conference Description

1. Session Description:

A Post traumatic growth approach to trauma

• Practical strategies to actualize the trauma-informed approach to care
• SAMHSA’s 6 Key Principles
• Health Equity – exploring bias and stigma in perinatal care
• Clinical updates – including discussion of Academy of Breastfeeding Medicine Guidelines on Lactation and Substance Use
• Compassionate communication (scenario/role play/simulation)

In this session participants will briefly review the foundations of trauma-informed care (TIC) and will examine how providing equitable and clinically updated care facilitates the delivery of trauma-responsive care and the potential for post-traumatic growth. Learners will practice key strategies to provide TIC in case examples.

 Objectives:

1. Learners will name key strategies to providing trauma-responsive care and facilitate post-traumatic growth
2. Learners will state inequities in their setting that may be mitigated by providing trauma-responsive care

 

1. Session Description

TRUST is a Five Letter Word

• Trust and Trepidation – Research on patient engagement and trust
• Exploring mistrust in perinatal care today
• How to build trust and improve patient engagement in a skeptical world (and too much information)
• Recovering trust following a traumatic or difficult birth

In this session, participants will examine the various factors impacting patient trust and mistrust of health care professionals and the healthcare system.  Learners will discuss ways to improve patient/provider relationships by building trust, and how to rebuild trust after difficult experiences.

Objectives:

1. Learners will name factors contributing to patient mistrust of health care professionals and systems.
2. Learners will identify ways to build trust in their practice setting

3. Session Description:

Birth Trauma Prevention and Healing

• What we know so far – research on emotional birth trauma and post-traumatic growth
• Caring for everyone when birth trauma occurs:

○      Patient

○      Support person

○      Self

○      Colleague

• Essentials of Birth Story Listening

○      The use of narrative medicine in birth preparation and healing

• Case scenarios/simulations

In this session, participants will examine the most recent research on birth trauma and post-traumatic growth.  Participants will explore how difficult or traumatic birth experiences impact patients, support people and members of the health care team and how to assess for the impact of birth trauma along the full spectrum of women’s health care. We will identify how compassionate listening and validation of birth stories along the continuum of health care can contribute to healing for both patients and professionals and ways to prevent birth trauma.

Objectives:

1. Learners will state key factors contributing to birth trauma
2. Learners will identify specific strategies to identify, prevent and heal birth trauma

The conference is limited to 50 participants on a first come first serve basis. Please register soon to assure your place.