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Home Study: Fall Summit 2022-06 - Preferred Futures & Best Hopes: A Solution-Focused Intervention for Supporting Maternal Mental Health 

11-28-2022 16:05

**Previously Recorded on 11/08/2022 - Not a Live Event**

With one in seven mothers and one in 10 fathers experiencing a perinatal mood or anxiety disorder, it is imperative that clinicians working with postpartum and maternal mental health have not only the training for working with these needs, but also a variety of tools in their toolkit for helping clients believe they have options in addition to hope for healing. This presentation will introduce an intervention based in solution-focused practices where maternal mental health clients experiencing anxiety are invited to engage in conversation around productive differences, what’s happening when the anxiety is not as severe, what is working, and ultimately, what their best hopes look like for the future. While validation of problems associated with experiencing anxiety is certainly a piece of the therapeutic puzzle, initiating a conversation around what one hopes for instead of trying to solve every problem can direct energy to healing. The intervention is action-oriented and utilizes the client’s best hopes, strengths, and resources to identify what their preferred future looks like, and then through therapeutic conversation, breaking it down into smaller pieces to make anxiety more manageable. Creating this type of plan helps the client feel hopeful and may reduce the overall feeling of being ‘stuck’ that is frequently reported in maternal mental health work. Solution-focused therapy has a growing, international evidence base and also works with multicultural approaches to interventions for anxiety and other clinical needs.


Dr. Olivia Wedel is in private practice in the DFW area of north Texas where she also teaches at TCU and serves as President of Texas Mental Health Counselors Association (TMHCA). She has been in the field for 16 years and now works primarily with women in relation to prenatal and perinatal mental health, parenting, substance use and recovery, depression and anxiety, and various life transitions. Dr. Wedel utilizes a collaborative, strengths-based, solution-focused approach in her work with clients and also draws on hope theory to assist with healing conversations. In addition to her clinical work, Dr. Wedel is a mother to a toddler and has personal experience with the various challenges that come with navigating the needs of work, home, family, and individual wellness. 

 

AMHCA will provide 1.5 CEs total after viewing and completing the accompanying quiz with a passing grade (80% or higher). American Mental Health Counselors Association (AMHCA) has been approved to provide continuing education by the National Board for Certified Counselors and the Ohio Counselor, Social Worker and Marriage and Family Therapist Board. All sales are final - home study registrations are non-refundable.

 

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