Two Essential Workshops With Penny Simkin PT
- Healing the Effects of Early Sexual Abuse on
Childbearing Women
- More than Coming Out of Birth Alive
(no classes scheduled at this time)
Who Should Attend
Course Description
Continuing Education Contact Hours
Location
Required Text
Instructor
Anyone who works
with childbearing women including psychotherapists and counselors, perinatal
social workers, public health nurses, lactation consultants, midwives,
childbirth educators, doulas, maternity nurses, obstetricians,
pediatricians, family physicians, WIC staff, early parenting educators, and
breastfeeding group leaders.
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When Survivors Give Birth
This workshop is essential education for anyone who works with pregnant and
birthing women and their families.
Approximately one in four women have experienced early sexual abuse, which
means that every obstetric, family medicine and midwifery practice is
serving survivors, as are professionals in many other fields. Such a history
affects a woman’s relationships with loved ones and care providers,
contributes to her fears of labor and birth, and affects her ability to
attach to her baby. It continues to challenge her on issues of breastfeeding
and parenting. This workshop explores the physical and emotional challenges
that a sexual abuse history may bring to childbirth, and ways the
practitioner can better assist women on their journey to healing.
The curriculum is based on the book, When Survivors Give Birth, by
Penny Simkin and Phyllis Klaus.
More Than Coming Out of Birth Alive
One third of women suffer in labor, and describe their births as traumatic.
Learn about the Neuromatrix Theory of Pain, and how care and support before
and during labor is instrumental in prevention of suffering and post
traumatic birth stress.
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Washington State Society for Clinical Social Work pending.
ACNM specialty credit in application.
The Mountaineers Building in Seattle
When Survivors Give Birth: Understanding and Healing the Effects of Early
Sexual Abuse on Childbearing Women (2004),
by Penny Simkin
Penny Simkin, PT, CCE, CD (DONA), is a physical therapist who
has specialized in childbirth education since 1968. She has prepared over
8,000 women for childbirth and assisted hundreds of women as a doula. She is the author of many books on birth.
Penny also maintains a busy schedule of international conferences and workshops.
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