Being with Families in Community #079

Your BIRTH Partners

In this week's episode, we're diving into a conversation around perinatal mental health, and how we screen for and provide better support to parents as they continue to navigate early parenthood.
Our expert this week, Dr. Erin Sadler is a psychologist at Children's National in their NICU who has focused her work around supporting infant mental health with starts with pregnancy and parents.
She will be sharing a little bit of the process that her hospital has used to implement a universal screening for caregivers around their mental health in both the ER and the NICU environments.
This episode is for all of you who are also looking to understand more about how we integrate our mental health care and resources into the standard medical care that we provide to families.
Join us for insights on:
~Removing barriers to connection
~Supporting vulnerable families and decreasing ACEs
~Universal mental health screening as standard of care
~Safety nets built into screening
~Therapeutic interventions for NICU caregivers
~Asking the "scary" questions about mental health
Connect with Dr Sadler and her work here.
Here is an addition resource recommended by Dr Sadler:
Two of our Children's National physicians discussing an article on the establishment our in-house PMH task force.

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