Birth trauma has been getting a lot of attention lately, with a recent NSW Parliament report being released last year, highlighting the high prevalence of parents who experienced birth trauma. But what is birth trauma, and what do mental health practitioners need to know about working with people who have experienced it? Join Dr Dayle Raftery, clinical psychologist and research associate, as she talks with Dr Cassandra Sundaraja, clinical psychologist and researcher in birth trauma. They’ll talk the perinatal period, what makes it such a unique time, what can make birthing traumatic, and what practitioners can keep in mind when working with people in a perinatal space.
November 23rd to 29th is Perinatal Mental Health Week – the Peregrine Portal has a range of resources on working with people in the perinatal space.
Resources
Cassandra has kindly shared the treatment manual she developed for her research. You can download it freely here.
The Centre for Perinatal Excellence (COPE) is a great resource for finding further resources and information on perinatal mental health
Birth Trauma Australia has resources and information for consumers and practitioners on birth trauma
Centre of Perinatal Psychology provides clinical services for families around the country, as well as training and supervision for practitioners
We have a podcast on Narrative Therapy if you want to learn more about this modality
We also have a toolkit on working with Perinatal mental health, filed with a huge range of additional resources.
