1-2 DAY WORKSHOPS

Meet your new parents and their babies with a compassionate first greeting, getting the right information to launch the therapy process.

SESSION CONTENT:

1. Set the scene using key principles of perinatal work
2. Present Three Little Birds Clinical Framework
3. Conducting an intake assessment
4. Importance of psychosocial contexts 
5. Engagement and setting up the therapeutic process
6. Intake assessment templates 
7. Strategies for perinatal intake assessment 
8. Tools for risk and safety management 

Put all the case information together using our formulation framework, exploring pathways to effective treatment.

SESSION CONTENT:

1. Introduce and define formulation (case conceptualization)
2. Present formulation models, and explore application to perinatal psychology 
3. Safe and effective formulation-driven therapy
4. Understand matrescence as an important developmental stage
5. Formulate using dyadic models for both parent and infant
6. Apply models to a case study
    

Deep dive into the range of clinical assessment tools available, and come away with new ideas for assessment and evaluation.

SESSION CONTENT:

1. Understand basic aspects of clinical assessment:
   a) problem definition
   b) evaluation
2. Basic psychometrics and applying these to available perinatal measures
3. Feedback-informed treatment
4. Clear and collaborative goal-setting
5. Formulation-driven session planning
6. Library of assessment measures and tools
    

SESSION CONTENT:

1. Full literature review of known guidelines, manuals and research papers
2. Dyadic, transtheoretical and multi-modality approach to treatment for perinatal presentations
3. Practical and process-based  suggestions that apply for a variety of clinical presentations 

SESSION CONTENT:

1. Understand pre-conception as an important stage from a lifespan perspective
2. Four key perspectives and theories for pre-conception presentations
3. Unresolved Family of Origin concerns
4. Paternal mental health
5. Fertility and infertility
6. Pregnancy loss
7. Increase knowledge and skills 

SESSION CONTENT:

1. Understand more about pregnancy
2. How pregnancy relates to emotional ill-health
3. Five key perspectives and theories for pregnancy presentations
4. Birth and postnatal preparation & prevention
5. Unexpected and unplanned events in pregnancy
6. Increase knowledge and skills
    

LEARNING GOALS:

1. About birth
2. Birth trauma and postpartum PTSD
3. The importance of birth
4. Birth preparation
5. Tokophobia
6. Increase knowledge and skills
    

LEARNING GOALS:

1. Trajectories to postnatal depression and anxiety
2. Preventing postnatal maladjustment
3. Infant mental health
4. Working with the family
5. Basic infant care
6. Assisting and facilitating postnatal adjustment 
7. Increase knowledge and skills