Integrating Maternal Mental Health and Wellness into Counselor Training and Supervision

Date Range

2021-10-05 to 2021-10-10

Event Location / Date(s)

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Presentation Date

10-7-2021

Document Type

Poster

Presenter(s)/Author(s)

Isabel A. Thompson, Nova Southeastern UniversityFollow
Alexandra Perez Rivera, Nova Southeastern UniversityFollow
Vanessa Teixeira, Nova Southeastern UniversityFollow
Eric S. Thompson, Nova Southeastern UniversityFollow
Jamie Hildebrandt Jerome, Nova Southeastern UniversityFollow

Description

This presentation will explore the significance of maternal mental health for individual, couple, infant, family, and community wellbeing. The peripartum period, which includes pregnancy, birth, and the postpartum timeframe, is a time of great adjustment and change for women, their partners, and families that warrants greater attention in counselor preparation. With a focus on wellness and prevention, the presenters will share ways to use strengths-based, feminist, multicultural, and post-traumatic growth perspectives in teaching students about maternal mental health. The presenters will share ways counseling supervisors can help students conceptualize and treat maternal mood disorders such as peripartum depression. Specific strategies to integrate maternal mental health into the curriculum will be discussed.

NSUWorks Citation

Thompson, I. A., Perez Rivera, A., Teixeira, V., Thompson, E. S., Hildebrandt Jerome, J. (2021). Integrating Maternal Mental Health and Wellness into Counselor Training and Supervision. .
Available at: https://nsuworks.nova.edu/cps_facpresentations/4991