Regional Support Group
EMDR and Perinatal Mental Health - presented by Mara Tesler Stein
Thu 07 Apr
|Online event
*Please note that this workshop is taking place over two consecutive mornings - Thursday 7 April: 9.30am - 1pm & Friday 8 April: 9:30am - 1pm*


Time & Location
07 Apr 2022, 09:00 – 08 Apr 2022, 13:00
Online event
About the Event
About this event
This workshop will introduce attendees to the wide range of disruptive events that can occur in the perinatal period, teach them to identify characteristics of those events that induce ruptures in the normative developmental path of family-building, and to recognize the common clinical presentations of patients suffering in the aftermath of disruptive and traumatizing perinatal events.
Through this training, attendees will gain an understanding of the Three Core Tasks parents face during the perinatal period (Davis & Stein, 2003). This comprehensive framework guides clinicians around history-taking and case conceptualization, allowing them more nuance and specificity as they assess ruptures in the perinatal period.
Using EMDR’s 3-prongs and 8-phases, the lens of Adaptive Information Processing, and the guiding framework of the Three Core Tasks, attendees will hone their clinical conceptualization skills, which will guide their decision making around the preparation and resourcing phases of EMDR and their choice…