This training, along with additional readings, defines perinatal loss and addresses the ways in which infant loss affects parents and families. The presentation reviews cultural considerations related to death and loss and offers resources to providers who support families coping with pregnancy loss, stillbirth, or death of an infant. This course includes an interview with Ivy Margulies, PhD, expert in perinatal loss.

Learning objectives include:
1) Recognize range of emotional reactions to perinatal loss in grieving parents;
2) Describe how couples grieve differently;
3) Describe various strategies to support bereaved parents;
4) Identify resources for bereaved parents.

Audience:
This course is for healthcare professionals working with families in the perinatal period. This includes mental health professionals, nurses, physicians and midwives, doulas and birth workers, lactation consultants, health educators and more.

CONTINUING EDUCATION

CE: Community Partners FBO Maternal Mental Health NOW is approved by the American Psychological Association (APA) to sponsor continuing education for psychologists. Community Partners FBO Maternal Mental Health NOW maintains responsibility for this program and its content. This course meets criteria for 2 continuing education credits for LMFTs, LPCCs, LCSWs, LEPs, and psychologists through the Board of Behavioral Sciences (BBS) in the state of CA. If you hold a license not listed here or are licensed outside of the state of California, please check with your licensing board directly to confirm that these CE credits will be accepted. We are unable to assist in verifying if CE credits will be approved for your license type/state outside of California.

CME: CMEs are not provided for this activity.

** If you hold a license not listed here or are licensed outside of the state of California, please check with your licensing board directly to confirm that these CE credits will be accepted. We are unable to assist in verifying if CE credits will be approved for your license type/state outside of California.