Integrating Maternal Mental Health: Making Our Care for Families Trauma-Informed
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Educational Goal
Participants will gain an increased understanding of trauma informed care for maternal mental health.
Description
This presentation will offer an introduction to the field of Maternal Mental Health and how it relates to Infant Mental Health and trauma-informed clinical work with families.
The presentation will have two main parts: One part focusing on the foundational clinical aspects of Perinatal Mood and Anxiety Disorders (PMADs) like diagnosis, etiological factors, presentation, comorbitity, symptomology, and basic principles of assessment, case conceptualization, intervention, and treatment. This will be done using a biopsychosocial approach demonstrating how individual and systemic levels of risk factors interact. The second part will focus on how Maternal Mental Health informs Infant Mental Health and clinical work with families. The principles for trauma-informed care for families that considers and integrates Maternal Mental Health will be explained.
An overview of best practices and treatment modalities will be presented along with an information about the standard screening tools and referrals that can be readily implemented by providers.
Target Audience
- Counselor
- Marriage & Family Therapist
- Psychologist
- Social Worker
- Substance Use Disorder Professionals
Presenters
Dr. Vissing is a Licensed Psychologist certified in Perinatal Mental Health (PMH-C) in private practice in Westwood, Los Angeles. She practices trauma-informed somatic psychotherapy as a Provisional Somatic Experiencing Practitioner. Dr. Vissing is Adjunct faculty at several graduate institutions, including ReissDavis Graduate School, Antioch and The Chicago School of Professional Psychology. She teaches Child and Adolescent Development, Treatment of Children and Adolescents, Psychodynamic Theories, and Maternal Mental Health. As Training Faculty for Maternal Mental Health NOW, Dr. Vissing also provides trainings and consultations for providers.
Dr. Vissing is originally from Denmark where she specialized in developmental psychology, trained in Play Therapy, and worked as a School Psychologist before moving to Los Angeles in 2010. Here she completed the post-master’s PsyD in Applied Clinical Psychology at The Chicago School of Professional Psychology and began to specialize in Maternal Mental Health. She has published book chapters and articles on the topic of the psychology of motherhood.