The Integration and Role of a Mental Health Professional within a Multidisciplinary Team Caring for Pregnant Women Prenatally Diagnosed with a Fetal Anomaly

Sunday, June 14, 2015

Title: The Integration and Role of a Mental Health Professional within a Multidisciplinary Team Caring for Pregnant Women Prenatally Diagnosed with a Fetal Anomaly

Promenade Ballroom (Long Beach Convention Center)
Susan R. Miesnik, RNC-OB, MSN, CRNP , Center for Fetal Diagnosis and Treatment, The Children's Hospital of Philadelphia, Philadelphia, PA
Joanna CM Cole, PhD, CD (DONA) , Center for Fetal Diagnosis and Treatment, Children's Hospital of Philadelphia, Philadelphia, PA
Tyra Jones, RNC-OB, MSN, CRNP , Center for Fetal Diagnosis and Treatment, The Children's Hospital of Philadelphia, Philadelphia, PA

Discipline: Childbearing (CB), Women’s Health (WH)

Learning Objectives:
  • 1) Describe the psychological impact of pregnancy and pregnancy complications on a woman and her family
  • 2) Identify ways in which a mental health professional can be integrated into a perinatal multidisciplinary team
  • 3) Discuss assessment and therapeutic interventions utilized to support women and their families experiencing psychological risks in response to a complicated pregnancy

    • Submission Description:
    This program will describe the integration of a mental health professional into a multidisciplinary team that cares for pregnant women diagnosed with a fetal anomaly. The psychological changes that occur in pregnancy will be reviewed as well as the psychological impact of a fetal structural or chromosomal abnormality. Therapeutic interventions utilized to support these women and their families experiencing psychological risk will be discussed.

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