Pilot Program Begins in Spring 2025
Prenatal and Perinatal Wellness Interventions
A Toolkit for Practitioners and Their Patients/Clients
An Advanced 12 Module Program for Clinicians
This online learning program combines:
- Adverse Baby Experiences with Veronique Mead, MD, SEP, Chronic Illness Studies
- Behavioral Health Education with Cheryl Azlin, PhD, Antioch University
- Early Dynamics and Roots of Health from the Prenatal and Perinatal period with Kate White, MA, BCBMT, RCST, CEIM, SEP, PPNE, PLC, Founder of the PPSI
- Fetal Brain Research: Gwenaëlle Thomas, PhD
- Multicultural Wellness and Health Disparities: Shatia Owsley, MA, PPNE, CEIM, 200-CYT and guest lecturers
This certificate program is designed to introduce health providers and behavioral health consultants to recent scientific and evidence-based information that can be shared in Integrated Behavioral Health and Primary Care Behavioral Health settings with the goal of improving client access to perinatal health promotion and wellness practices. Behavioral Health provides the context and tradition of providing healthcare that assures increased access to care in primary care and in Behavioral Health settings and a focus on pragmatic interventions that improve day to day functioning. This information will be inspiring and we will include behavioral health applications-- instruction and interventions that can be taught and implemented in short behavioral health sessions by Behavioral Health Consultants during preconception, prenatal, and post delivery, and neonatal/pediatric heath care office visits.
These are powerful, simple, activities that the perinatal client and family can use to create foundational attitudes and behaviors that will work toward health promotion and prevention of perinatal biological, emotional, psychological, and birth trauma. It provides a supportive matrix of healthy habits and activities that will help to create a positive healthy pregnancy, birth, and post-natal experience for the prenate and the mother and family. It is a proactive, positive, encouraging, health promoting program of activities that we hope will contribute to improved satisfaction with perinatal health care, improved maternal and family preparation for pregnancy and birth, improved emotional and psychological adjustment to pregnancy and birth, less fear and painful birth experiences, and overall better perinatal outcomes.
Each Module will have Behavioral Health Applications, Handouts for Professionals for themselves and for application with patients.
These are powerful, simple, activities that the perinatal client and family can use to create foundational attitudes and behaviors that will work toward health promotion and prevention of perinatal biological, emotional, psychological, and birth trauma. It provides a supportive matrix of healthy habits and activities that will help to create a positive healthy pregnancy, birth, and post-natal experience for the prenate and the mother and family. It is a proactive, positive, encouraging, health promoting program of activities that we hope will contribute to improved satisfaction with perinatal health care, improved maternal and family preparation for pregnancy and birth, improved emotional and psychological adjustment to pregnancy and birth, less fear and painful birth experiences, and overall better perinatal outcomes.
Each Module will have Behavioral Health Applications, Handouts for Professionals for themselves and for application with patients.
Who Is This Training For?
This certificate program reflects and integrates multidisciplinary healthcare research and specialties and is designed to be utilized by interprofessional groups and teams providing health services. These will include: Behavioral Health Consultants in IBH and Primary Care Behavioral Health settings, including nurses, physician assistants, nurse practitioners, physicians, psychologists, social workers, counselors, and medical care coordinators and assistants; Health service providers working in obstetric, post-partum, neonatal, and pediatric settings; somatic therapists, physical therapists, craniosacral therapists, childbirth education instructors, prenatal and perinatal health educators will also find this information relevant, informative, and helpful.
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