Helping Navigate Pregnancy Loss: A Workshop for Healthcare & Mental Health Providers

Drawing from both clinical and personal experience, this attachment-informed, experiential workshop will discuss the psychological impact of pregnancy loss on the individual, family, and societal level. Attendees will learn challenges and barriers individuals face in the grieving process along with learning and practicing evidence-based interventions health and medical providers can use to best support individuals following a pregnancy loss. Less...

Learning Objectives

  • Describe the unique challenges providers encounter when treating pregnancy loss.
  • Employ evidence-based grief and trauma interventions to treat pregnancy loss and to support clients in future reproductive journeys.
  • List at least three clinical strategies to assess, conceptualize, and treat pregnancy loss.

Friday, October 07, 2022

Live Interactive Webinar

10:00 AM CDT - 12:00 PM CDT

Register for this Webinar
EARN 2 CE Credit Hours

About the speaker

Sunita Osborn, PsyD

Sunita Osborn, PsyD

Clinical Psychologist
Dr. Sunita Osborn is a licensed clinical psychologist and writer. Dr. Osborn works as a therapist and the Director of Operations at Modern Therapy, a unique and growth-driven group practice in Houston, Texas that caters specifically towards helping high-functioning professionals and creatives navigate relationships, work, and life. After finding herself lost and without a map after her own experiences of pregnancy loss, she became committed to increasing awareness and decreasing stigma towards miscarriage. Her book, The Miscarriage Map: What To Expect When You Are No Longer Expecting is based on her personal experience with miscarriage as well as her professional experience helping clients deal with life after miscarriage.

Agenda

10-10:20am

  • Introduction

    • Defining and conceptualizing pregnancy loss and reproductive trauma

    • What is the reproductive story?

10:20- 10:30am

  • Exploring the multiple layers of loss within pregnancy loss

10:30-10:55am

  • Treatment Interventions: Helping Clients Move Forward, Not On

    • Understanding Loss Orientation versus Restoration Orientation in grief work


10:55-11:00 am  *Break

 

11-11:40am

  • Treatment Interventions: Helping Clients Move Forward, Not On

    • HELP card activity

    • Exploring the partner’s experience of pregnancy loss

    • Utilizing the sixth stage of grief: meaning-making

11:40 -11:50am

  • Addressing Countertransference

  • Self-Care for Helpers


11:50–12pm  *Q&A

CE Information - Earn 2 CE Credit Hours

CE Approvals

American Psychological Association
CE Learning Systems, LLC is approved by the American Psychological Association to sponsor continuing education for psychologists. CE Learning Systems maintains responsibility for this program and its content.

CE Process Info

Each professional is responsible for the individual requirements as stipulated by his/her licensing agency. Please contact your individual licensing board/regulatory agency to review continuing education requirements for licensure renewal. Please note: You must attend "live" (in real-time) to earn CE credits.

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  • Download your continuing education certificate in a PDF format

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