Center for Early Relationship Support®
Infant-Parent Training Institute: The Emotional Journey Through Pregnancy, Labor, and Birth
Course Description
For women who choose to bear children, their journey through pregnancy, labor, and birth is a biopsychosocial process that will occupy almost a year of their lives. The experience may propel them into reflection on the past, anticipation of the future, and a rearrangement of their identity and social status. This is a time ripe for personal growth.
This course will examine the biopsychosocial journey of childbearing women. Through readings, case material, and discussion, participants will explore the myriad twists and turns this journey takes for some women and the ways in which mental health professionals and others who work with pregnant women can be instrumental in facilitating a meaningful and healthy outcome.
Location
JF&CS headquarters, 1430 Main Street, Waltham
Date and Time
TBD
Tuition
$525.00
Space is limited to 12 students.
CEUs for some disciplines will be available.
Faculty
Deborah Issokson, PsyD is a licensed psychologist specializing in perinatal mental health. She provides psycho¬therapy for women and their partners as well as training, supervision, and consultation to health care and mental health professionals in the area of reproductive mental health. She is co-author of chapter 21, “Postpartum,” in Our Bodies Ourselves for the New Century, 1998 and chapter 23, “The First Year of Parenting,” in Our Bodies Ourselves: A New Edition for a New Era, 2005. Until its closing, she was an adjunct faculty member of the BU School of Public Health, Department of Maternal and Child Health, Nurse-Midwifery Education Program. She maintains a private practice, Counseling for Reproductive Health & Healing, in Wellesley and Pembroke.
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