About "When Survivors Give Birth"
This important client care workshop focuses on understanding and healing the effects of childhood sexual abuse on childbearing women. Join maternity care, mental health and allied providers to focus on the issues of the least understood of pregnant clients.
- Advance your understanding of an all too common issue for childbearing women and families.
- Expand your care practices for women at risk of poor physical and psychosocial childbirth outcomes.
- Improve your response to women who express emotional concerns about childbearing.
Anyone working with childbearing women will gain knowledge and skills in this one-of-a-kind workshop, which is the culmination of decades of collaboration between Penny Simkin, PT, CCE, CD(DONA), and Phyllis Klaus, MFT, LMSW. Together they also wrote the 2004 book of the same name, When Survivors Give Birth.
Approved for 12.58 Nursing Contact Hours and 12 Continuing Education Units from the International Childbirth Education Association (ICEA).
This continuing nursing education activity was approved by the North Carolina Nurses Association, an accredited approver by the American Nurses Credentialing Center’s Commission on Accreditation.
Upcoming Workshops - "When Survivors Give Birth"
A not-to-be missed opportunity to learn from renowned expert Penny Simkin PT, co-author of the book When Survivors Give Birth: Understanding and Healing the Effects of Early Sexual Abuse on the Childbearing Woman
January 25-26, 2014
Saturday: 8am-5:00pm; Sunday: 8am-4:30pm
$319
Approved for 12.58 Nursing Contact Hours, 12 Continuing Education Units from the International Childbirth Education Association (ICEA) and 14.5 Bastyr University Continuing Education Contact Hours.
"When Survivors Give Birth" Textbook
The only book of its kind, When Survivors Give Birth provides survivors and their maternity caregivers with extensive information on the prevalence and short- and long-term effects of childhood sexual abuse, emphasizing its possible impact on childbearing women. Challenges in the client-caregiver relationship are thoroughly portrayed, with much practical advice for improving trust and communication as well as self-help techniques to handle abuse-related distress. Chapters on birth counseling, psychotherapy, and clinical care of survivors make this book a useful resource for survivors and all who work with them (450 pages).