![[ Visit AWHONN Website ]](images/logo.png){kind=logo}
Title: C1 - Secrets, Scars, Shame: Self-Injurious Behavior During Pregnancy and Childbearing Years
Disciplines: Women’s Health (WH), Childbearing (CB), Advanced Practice (AP)
Learning Objectives:
- Discuss definition of non-suicidal self-injury (NSSI), and prevalence among women in childbearing years and pregnancy.
- Identify assessment and interventional strategies when caring for individuals experiencing NSSI.
- Describe affordable self-injury prevention programs based on current evidence-based literature.
The majority of individuals who self-injure are women, beginning during adolescence with injurious behaviors peaking during the childbearing years of 16-25. Clinical guidelines are established to guide practitioners in caring for patients with mental health issues during antenatal and postnatal periods. However, these guidelines do not discuss treating and identifying self-injurious behaviors and there remains a paucity of research related to self-injury in pregnancy.
Monday, June 25, 2012: 2:45 PM-3:45 PM
Potomac 4-6 (Gaylord National Harbor)
Moderator:
Melanie Chichester, BSN, RNC
Presenting Author:
Kristen Vandenberg, DNP, FNP-BC, PMHNP-BC
Author (not presenting):
Julie Baker-Townsend, MSN, WHNP-BC
Audio File
