Understanding trauma in the perinatal period: EMDR for families in distress

More than 30% of women describe their labor and delivery experience as traumatizing. This figure does not include trauma that occurs in the effort to become pregnant, during the course of pregnancy itself, or complications in the newborn period. Because these events are common and rarely life-threatening, women often minimize their impact, and family members and physicians may not recognize their repercussions, making them potentially challenging to clinically detect. Parents face many developmental, family-building tasks during the perinatal period. Traumatizing events not only raise the risk for post-traumatic stress disorder but can also interrupt these developmental tasks, introducing barriers and gaps into this already complex process of family-building.

Conference

English

Mara Tesler Stein

Stein, M. T. (2023, May). Understanding trauma in the perinatal period: EMDR for families in distress. Pre-recorded presentation at the EMDRAA Conference, Melbourne Victoria, Australia