Perinatal Mental Health and Early Childhood Psychosocial Conference

Tuesday, May 4, 2021, 9:00 AM - Wednesday, May 5, 2021, 5:00 PM, Virtual Conference, Philadelphia, PA

As many as one in seven mothers and one in 10 fathers will experience symptoms of depression, anxiety and/or traumatic stress during the perinatal period. For some parents, the experience of achieving and maintaining pregnancy is largely uneventful, but others may face significant challenges, such as perinatal loss, fetal diagnosis, preterm birth, or hospitalization of their child in a newborn intensive care unit. These events may cause high-risk parents and families to develop a worsening of social and emotional distress. The objective of this conference is to help frontline obstetric, neonatal, fetal and psychosocial clinicians develop culturally sensitive and trauma-informed methods of risk assessment to recognize triggers for psychological distress, foster effective partnerships within multidisciplinary teams, and implement screening and clinical intervention services to support parents and families in need.

A four-hour preconference will highlight best practices for supporting parents and families who experience perinatal and neonatal loss. Members of the Center for Fetal Diagnosis and Treatment (CFDT) Perinatal Palliative Care and Bereavement Program and Neonatal/Infant Intensive Care Team will share their infrastructure for clinical practice, as well as offer guidance for sharing difficult news, helpful grief resources and outreach support for grieving parents and families.

1. Preconference: Review strategies to manage difficult conversations when a fetal diagnosis is confirmed and when an anticipated neonatal loss is expected
2. Preconference: Identify ways to support grieving families in memory making
3. Preconference: Discuss helpful grief resources for parents and families
4. Preconference: Recognize the importance of bereavement outreach after parents and families return home
5. Conference: Define PMADs and understand the prevalence and risks for NICU parents
6. Conference: Identify key components of risk assessment during a psychosocial interview
7. Conference:Describe strategies for screening implementation in a fetal center, NICU and neonatal follow-up program
8. Conference: Identify challenges and opportunities for implementing group programming with pregnant and postpartum parents
9. Conference: Explore effective partnerships between medical, nursing and psychosocial teams

The registration fee includes the conference live stream, online presentations, and CME/CEU and other credits.
Pre-conference only (May 4, 2021).......$50
Conference only (May 5, 2021).............$125
Both days (May 4-5, 2021).....................$150

Student Fees
Pre-conference only (May 4, 2021).......$40
Conference only (May 5, 2021)...............$85
Both days (May 4-5, 2021)....................$100

The Children's Hospital of Philadelphia is accredited by the Accreditation Council for Continuing Medical Education (ACCME) to provide continuing medical education to physicians.

AMA PRA Category 1 Credits™ (11.00 hours), Non-Physician Attendance (includes PA, RT, RDMS, BS) (11.00 hours), Social Work (10.50 hours)