The Miscarriage Map: Attachment-Informed Interventions for Ethical Treatment of Pregnancy Loss
- Speaker:
- Sunita Osborn, PsyD, MA
- Duration:
- 6 Hours 13 Minutes
- Format:
- Audio and Video
- Copyright:
-
Jan 31, 2025
- Product Code:
- POS059974
- Media Type:
- Digital Seminar
Description
The grief that follows pregnancy loss is unique.
Clients face a terrible emptiness of lost hope and shattered dreams, with far-reaching ramifications on their sense of self, their bodies, their relationships, and more.
Without training in treating this distinct form of reproductive trauma, therapists can inadvertently echo the pervasive minimization and avoidance faced by their clients with pregnancy loss.
You need a map to navigate this complicated territory.
Watch Sunita Osborn, PsyD, PMH-C, perinatal mental health specialist, for a comprehensive workshop packed with practical, attachment-focused strategies that will help you know just what to do to support clients in the context of their unique reproductive stories and cultural backgrounds. You’ll learn:
- Techniques to help with overwhelming emotions, body shame, grief, couples issues, and more
- Practices to foster self-compassion and build resilience in the face of self-blame
- Strategies to understand clients’ cultural identities in relation to pregnancy loss
- Tools to ensure your practice follows ethical and legal guidelines regarding pregnancy loss
PURCHASE TODAY to get the tools you need to create a healing environment for grieving parents.
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Handouts/Brochure
| File type | File name | Number of pages | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Manual - The Miscarriage Map (35.3 MB) | 80 Pages | Available after Purchase | |
| Extra Handout - Body Gratitude Meditation (109.6 KB) | 5 Pages | Available after Purchase | |
| Extra Handout - Body Gratitude Meditation - French (109.6 KB) | 5 Pages | Available after Purchase | |
| Manual - The Miscarriage Map - French (35.3 MB) | 80 Pages | Available after Purchase | |
| Extra Handout - Body Gratitude Meditation - Italian (109.6 KB) | 5 Pages | Available after Purchase | |
| Manual - The Miscarriage Map - Italian (35.3 MB) | 80 Pages | Available after Purchase |
Speaker
Sunita Osborn, PsyD, MA Related seminars and products
Sunita Osborn, PsyD, PMH-C is an expert in the treatment of pregnancy loss who helps individuals and couples in all phases of their reproductive journey. Dr. Osborn is the author of The Miscarriage Map: What to Expect When You are No Longer Expecting and the companion workbook, The Miscarriage Map: An Honest Guide to Navigating Pregnancy Loss, Working Through the Pain, and Moving Forward. Her work has been featured extensively in the media, including on NRP, With Whit, Psychology Today, and several miscarriage-focused platforms such as The Life After Miscarriage podcast and the Managing Miscarriage podcast. Committed to helping clients cope with the pain of loss, to training clinicians, and to promoting open dialogue on the realities of the prevalent and devastating concern, Dr. Osborn practices in Houston.
Speaker Disclosures:
Financial: Dr. Sunita Osborn has an employment relationship with Modern Therapy. She is an expert advisor with Bodily. She receives royalties as a published author. Dr. Osborn receives a speaking honorarium, recording, and book royalties from PESI, Inc. All relevant financial relationships with ineligible organizations have been mitigated.
Non-financial: Dr. Sunita Osborn is a member of the American Psychological Association.
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Objectives
- Identify the importance of understanding clients’ cultural assumptions, beliefs, and practices regarding pregnancy and pregnancy loss.
- Determine common mental health disorders that may be present after pregnancy loss.
- Utilize attachment-informed interventions to assist clients who have experienced pregnancy loss.
- Choose cognitive interventions to manage self-blame related to pregnancy loss.
- Analyze ethical and legal obligations of the therapist working with clients who have experienced pregnancy loss.
- Evaluate and manage clinician bias when working with clients who have experienced pregnancy loss.
Outline
Pregnancy Loss: What You Need to Know- Common pregnancy loss myths and how to counter them
- Negative outcomes of no treatment
- Cultural assumptions regarding pregnancy and parental identity
- Importance of trauma- and culturally-informed language
- Cultural assumptions, traditions, and rituals around grief
- The current maternal health crisis
- Top strategies to center your practice in cultural humility
- Case studies
- Identify and explore clients’ reproductive story and loss history
- How to listen for red flags to target in therapy
- Diagnostic considerations: common mental health concerns after loss
- Understand clients’ cultural identities
- How to provide a therapeutic container
- When and how to involve partners and family members
- Case studies
- Top strategies to validate client’s loss
- Proactive coping strategies: self-reflection, supportive others, and more
- Grounding and distress tolerance skills for emotion regulation
- Shift unhelpful beliefs about safety, trust, power, esteem, and intimacy
- Tools for cognitive distortions around self-blame and shame
- Support grieving clients in navigating loss and restoration
- Attachment-informed interventions to integrate loss
- Build resilience with narrative exercises
- Values exercises to support client decision-making
- Strategies to increase self-compassion and reduce shame
- Tools to repair the relationship with the body after loss
- When your client is partnered: couples dynamics and interventions
- Case studies
- Therapist role in supporting clients in decision-making
- Maintain respect for autonomy
- Beneficence and non-maleficence
- Duty to report issues
- Importance of awareness of legal issues in reproductive health
- Assessing competence and obtaining additional support
- Make the most out of consultation
- Documentation do’s and don’ts
- Ethical management of countertransference
- Ethical concerns when working with couples and groups
- Case studies
- Impact of client perceptions of the therapists’ reproductive story
- How to support clients in subsequent pregnancies, losses, and infertility
- Tools to evaluate clinician bias
- Management of therapist reactions to reproductive concerns
- Avoid the “suffering hierarchy” – adaptations for groups
- Limitations of the research and potential risks
Target Audience
- Counselors
- Social Workers
- Psychologists
- Marriage & Family Therapists
- Addiction Counselors
- Case Managers
- Psychiatrists
- Psychiatric Nurses
- Physicians
- Nurses
- Other Mental Health Professionals
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