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Simkin School - Other Courses & Trainings:
When Survivors Give Birth
Pre- and Perinatal Massage Therapy Certification CourseWhen Survivors Give Birth - Feb 5-6, 2010
Join maternity care, mental health and allied providers to focus on the issues of the least understood of pregnant clients.
- Advance your understanding of an all too common issue for childbearing women and families.
- Expand your care practices for women at risk of poor physical and psychosocial childbirth outcomes.
- Improve your response to women who express emotional concerns about childbearing.
Workshop leader Penny Simkin PT is a renowned author and speaker. Penny has devoted much of her forty year career to exploring the impact of early trauma on pregnant women in our maternity care system and a roadmap for the process of healing. The workshop provides information, insight, and practical advice for humanizing prenatal, intrapartum and postnatal care.
Penny’s book When Survivors Give Birth, co-authored by Phyllis Klaus CSW, MFT is the essential guide to the topic.
- Definition of childhood sexual abuse (CSA)
- Neurological and behavioral sequelae of child abuse
- Impact of childhood sexual abuse on conscious memory
- Impact of childhood sexual abuse on the adult woman
- Impact of CSA on pregnancy
- Relationship between the woman and her caregiver
- Application of common childbirth preparation techniques for CSA survivors
- Impact of CSA on postpartum, Breastfeeding and PPMD
- Self-help techniques to reduce symptoms
- Counseling strategies to prepare nulliparas with fear about the upcoming birth
- Counseling after traumatic birth
- Counseling the pregnant woman with a previous traumatic birth
When Survivors Give Birth - Simkin & Klaus
Pre- and Perinatal Massage Therapy Certification Course - August 12-15, 2010
Become a maternity massage therapy specialist. Move far beyond general adaptations for maternity/pregnancy massage in this learner friendly, hands-on certification workshop. Practice and receive personalized feedback in:
- Deep tissue
- Passive movement
- Meuromuscular
- Reflexive positional release
Plus other somatic methods modified for emotional, structural, and physiological challenges of the childbearing year.
The Pre- and Perinatal Massage Therapy Course is a 32 hour Specialization Certification. In this hands-on intensive workshop, you will learn an integrative somatic approach incorporating the insights and selected techniques of Ida Rolf; neuromuscular and myofascial therapy, movement, osteopathic soft tissue techniques and other Western methods; applied tai chi principles; and emotional sensitivity. Well-researched guidelines will empower you to safely and effectively modify techniques to address expectant women’s concerns.