This conference will be of particular interest to those working within Perinatal Mental Health Services and Perinatal Mental Health Consumer Groups.
Program Highlights include;
Preconference Workshops
•Half-day Workshop with Professor Ian Jones on “Psychoeducation for Bipolar Disorder and Pre-Conception Counselling” (Managing medication for severe mental illnes (including depression) through pregnancy and postpartum)
•Half-day Workshop with Professor Louise Howard on “How to Ask and Respond to Domestic Violence – A Practical How to Do It Session”.
•Half-day Workshop with Simone Honikman titled “Secret History” – A training technique to assist non mental health professionals working with mothers, to practice empathic engagement skills, where there are high levels of obstetric violence and low mental health literacy.
•Full-day Workshop by Marcé/Australian Psychological Society titled “Mindful & Reflective Approach to Mother-Infant Intervention” – The Reflective Parenting Program, The Mindful Parenting Group and the Parent Development Interview.
Plenaries and Invited Speakers
•Plenary by Professor Mark Hanson on “Developmental Pathways to Disease and how the Environment Before and After Birth Affects the Risk of Chronic Disease/Infant Development”.
•Plenary by Professor Louise Howard on “Domestic Violence and Perinatal Mental Health”.
•Plenary by Dr Rachel Yehuda on “Intergenerational Transmission of Trauma – Epigenetic Mechanisms, the Utero Environment and Early Attachment”.
•Plenary by Dr Alain Gregoire to “Launch the Global Maternal Mental Health Alliance”.
•Invited Speaker and Symposium chaired by Associate Professor Megan Galbally on “Psychopharmacological Treatment in the Perinatal Period: from Research to Clinical Practice”.
•Invited Speaker and Symposium chaired by Dr Alan Gemmill on “Screening: The State of Our Knowledge, Issues Around Implementation of Screening”.
•Invited Speaker and Symposium chaired by Dr Jeffrey Meyer on “Translating Neuroimaging into Clinical Care in Postpartum Depression”.
Postconference Workshops
•Full-day Workshop by Professor Scott Stuart on “Interpersonal Psychotherapy”.
•Half-day Workshop by Dr Rachel Yehuda on “Issues in Diagnosis and Treatment of PTSD”.
