Talking Therapies Clinical Skills: Birth Trauma, February 2024

Talking Therapies Clinical Skills: Birth Trauma, February 2024
Online Course
Wed 7 Feb 2024

This one-day skills training day helped attendees to navigate the challenges of perinatal trauma, ensuring that they are prepared to deliver appropriate, effective and client-driven interventions. From getting to grips with the basics of birth trauma to improving intervention strategies, this was an unmissable opportunity to develop and refine your therapeutic skills.

With fresh ideas to innovate approaches to evidence-based interventions, attendees specifically focused on:

  • Understanding birth related PTSD: investigating the key factors that cause PTSD
  • Improving informed CBT therapy: developing assessment criteria and trauma processing strategies
  • Advancing your approaches to tokophobia: understanding the risk factors
  • Developing practical ways to adapt your practice within the perinatal period; by holding in mind the parent-infant relationship

Developed with convenience in mind

Attendees were able to acquire valuable techniques and fresh skills to incorporate into their daily work routines, all from the convenience of their own home or office, thanks to the convenient and remote access provided by this online course. The day included:

  • Evidenced based examples and referrals
  • Interactive presentations
  • Closed room discussions
  • An agreed action plan


9:30
Join, tech support and opportunity to network in your meeting room
10:00
Workshop leader opening remarks and introduction of attendees
Dr Amber Sedgfield, Clinical Psychologist, Coventry and Warwickshire Partnership NHS Trust
An introduction to birth trauma and PTSD
10:10
What is birth trauma? Exploring incidence and risk factors
  • What makes perinatal PTSD different?
  • Understanding the perceptual factors and obstetric factors that cause PTSD
  • Good practice guidance for trauma informed maternity care to reduce incidences of birth trauma
11:00
Screen break
CBT therapy for birth trauma
11:10
Expanding on CBT therapy for birth trauma
  • Exploring what assessment sessions include, resource building and trauma processing
  • Perinatal adapted assessment, risk assessment and formulation
  • Creating therapeutic plans for when processing does not work
12:10
Morning question and answer session
12:20
Interactive activity: Using the 5 P’s model, what is your formulation of the case study of Cathy?
12:30
Lunch break
1:00
Interactive activity feedback: Using the 5 P’s model, what is your formulation of the case study of Cathy?
CBT therapy in practice
1:10
Understanding and working with tokophobia to deliver patient centered care
  • Psychoeducation
  • Resource building and stabilisation
  • Trauma processing interventions and interventions for when processing does not work
2:10
Screen break
2:20
Brief introduction to Tokophobia
  • Assessment, formulation and risk
2:40
Prevention of birth trauma
  • Trauma informed care in maternity
  • Collaboratively developed psychologically informed birth preferences letters with patients
3:20
Afternoon questions and answer session
3:30
Close of workshop

We were pleased to welcome as the course leader Amber Sedgfield who brought a wealth of experience and expertise

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Dr Amber Sedgfield

Clinical Psychologist
Coventry and Warwickshire Partnership NHS Trust

A one day course dedicated to developing implementable skills

This one day course brought together a whole range of professionals for learning and networking. Attendees included the likes of CBT's, Psychologist's, Therapist's and PWP's.

Here are just some comments from attendees on the day

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Extremely relevant and very helpful
- Wellbeing | Norfolk and Suffolk NHS
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Very well presented delving into a lot of subjects within a complex topic
- Pneuma Healthcare
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Very well organised, the content covered what I was expecting, the number of participants enabled good interaction
- NSFT
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Helpful protected spaced to think about perinatal work and adaptations for work
- NSFT Wellbeing
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Very good presenters, great content
- Norfolk and Suffolk NHS Foundation Trust
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Really helpful space to think about EMDR and CBT and adaptations for perinatal work
- NSFT Wellbeing

We can run this course in-house specifically for your team

SBK Healthcare are pleased to offer our experience and insight into educational forums as a service to you and your organisation. If you would like this course delivered directly to your team or have a different learning need, or would simply like to bring your team together to benefit from dedicated training time, then we can help. Take the first step today and email sarah.kemm@sbk-healthcare.co.uk or telephone 01732 897788.

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Reach out today

If you would like more information on our sponsorship options an in-house forum or if you wish to discuss your needs and what solutions may be appropriate for your business, please contact:

Sarah Kemm

Contact: 01732 897788

Email: sarah.kemm@sbk-healthcare.co.uk