10 HOUR POSTGRADUATE TRAINING PROGRAM

This unique training experience with small group format provides an enduring foundation for personal and professional growth. Designed to enhance clinical skills and therapeutic effectiveness, participation in this training will increase your knowledge of treating postpartum illness and greatly expand your clinical repertoire. This program will provide you with the information, tools, and confidence you need to enhance your role as an expert in this highly specialized field of practice.

Highlights of this training

• This is a crash course on diagnosis, screening, assessment, treatment options. Theoretical foundations and therapeutic approaches will be explored with an emphasis on the PPSC's strategies models of intervention.

• Training is based on two decades of clinical experience of Karen Kleiman, director of The Postpartum Stress Center.

• This course is the inspiration for theories and practices presented in "Therapy and the Postpartum Woman: Notes on Healing Postpartum depression for Clinicians and the Women who seek their Help" (Kleiman, 2008).

• Information in this course is appropriate for new as well as seasoned clinicians.

• Although this course is best suited for clinicians in private practice, the content can be applied to program development for clinicians working in agencies or organizations interested in offering specialized services to their postpartum patients.

• The small group format is essential for optimal professional and personal enrichment.

• Participants may be eligible for ongoing supervision: in-person, phone or email, subject to the instructor's schedule and availability. Interested attendees should contact the instructor following the course.