Effects of Perinatal Mood & Anxiety in Black and Brown Communities

67 Woodlawn Street,Hamden CT 06517

25 February, 2022

Description

This course reviews the disparities in maternal mental healthcare in the black and brown community, and clinical interventions. This training reviews perinatal mood and anxiety disorders (PMAD's) and the disparities in maternal mental health in the black and brown community. We highlight racial bias, including how racial traumatization changes the health outcomes for black and brown womxn, and the overall black and brown community. We hope to address systems issues, mental health symptomology, and evidenced based and trauma informed clinical interventions that provide vital changes needed in healthcare. Objectives include but are not limited to: to identify PMAD's and its presentation in black and brown birthing people, to understand racial bias within the mental healthcare of the black and brown community, to explore clinical cases together in a way that applies an anti-bias/anti-racist approach to treatment, to attain a better knowledge of the community effects of PMAD'S, to understand the epidemic happening in maternal mental health as it pertains to the black and brown community. Any cancellations will be refunded at 50% up to 24 hours prior to the event, no refunds after the event. COVID vaccination card required to be emailed to [email protected] prior to the training, and masks are required. Janina Tauro is a Licensed Clinical Social Worker (Connecticut), and received her Masters in Social Work from Rutgers, the State University of New Jersey. She provides individual psychotherapy for children, adolescents, and adults, integrating psychodynamic, humanistic-existential, and cognitive-behavioral approaches. In her clinical practice, she helps her clients grow, create, express, articulate, self-advocate, self-educate, explore, and develop a strong sense of self-awareness and mindfulness.  Specifically, she uses Expressive Arts and play, Meditation and Yoga, and Mindfulness, as vehicles for communicating, exploring, learning, and processing in the psychotherapeutic setting.  Her goals are to use a holistic approach to healing, by assessing and treating the symptom presentation, and then reach beyond symptom reduction by facilitating opportunities for the client to engage in an emotionally, physically, and spiritually balanced life.