EMDR and perinatality: A model of clinical intervention in postpartum period. The breastfeeding and bonding EMDR protocol and the EMDR recent birth trauma protocol
Description
EMDR and perinatality: a model of clinical intervention in postpartum period. The Breastfeeding and Bonding EMDR Protocol and the EMDR Recent Birth Trauma Protocol.
The post partum period is a very sensitive and transformative phase in a woman's and in a couple's history. Many crucial themes are often undervalued, misunderstood or conceled because of shame, social desiderability, expectations. Birth traumas, Bonding anxieties, breastfeeding difficulties may impact on women's health (post partum depression, ptsd), on children's attachment, on family-system emotional balance. If those themes remain untreated, consequences can be detected many months or even years later.
The chance to intervene in the post partum period, when childbirth turns into a moment of crisis, has enormous preventive value. EMDR has a great potentiality in perinatality: deep and brief, when there is little time for intervention (in maternity ward), suitable for recent events (birth traumas, perinatal deaths, miscarriages), where mind and body are equally involved (delivery, breastfeeding). Adaptive directions developed through EMDR prevent physiological difficulties of a new parental role from becoming pathogenic situations and further pathology.
The perinatal issues will be explored through the presentation of a model of intervention suited for working with EMDR in a maternity ward and in private practice, through the explanation of two protocols, the Breastfeeding and Bonding EMDR Protocol and the EMDR Recent Birth Trauma Protocol. Clinical cases will be illustrated. The extension of the model of intervention in other life phases will be adressed. Workshop learning objectives will be the development of an EMDR intervention for perinatal difficulties and the use of the two protocols in different settings, during postpartum days or in following phases.
The post partum period is a very sensitive and transformative phase in a woman's and in a couple's history. Many crucial themes are often undervalued, misunderstood or conceled because of shame, social desiderability, expectations. Birth traumas, Bonding anxieties, breastfeeding difficulties may impact on women's health (post partum depression, ptsd), on children's attachment, on family-system emotional balance. If those themes remain untreated, consequences can be detected many months or even years later.
The chance to intervene in the post partum period, when childbirth turns into a moment of crisis, has enormous preventive value. EMDR has a great potentiality in perinatality: deep and brief, when there is little time for intervention (in maternity ward), suitable for recent events (birth traumas, perinatal deaths, miscarriages), where mind and body are equally involved (delivery, breastfeeding). Adaptive directions developed through EMDR prevent physiological difficulties of a new parental role from becoming pathogenic situations and further pathology.
The perinatal issues will be explored through the presentation of a model of intervention suited for working with EMDR in a maternity ward and in private practice, through the explanation of two protocols, the Breastfeeding and Bonding EMDR Protocol and the EMDR Recent Birth Trauma Protocol. Clinical cases will be illustrated. The extension of the model of intervention in other life phases will be adressed. Workshop learning objectives will be the development of an EMDR intervention for perinatal difficulties and the use of the two protocols in different settings, during postpartum days or in following phases.
Format
Conference
Language
English
Original Work Citation
Chiorino, V., & Cattaneo, C., Presentation at the 20th EMDR Europe Association Conference, Krakow, Poland. EMDR and perinatality: A model of clinical intervention in postpartum period. The breastfeeding and bonding EMDR protocol and the EMDR recent birth trauma protocol
Citation
“EMDR and perinatality: A model of clinical intervention in postpartum period. The breastfeeding and bonding EMDR protocol and the EMDR recent birth trauma protocol,” Francine Shapiro Library, accessed May 17, 2024, https://francineshapirolibrary.omeka.net/items/show/25679.