A Resource for Healthcare and Social Services Professionals
August 13, 2020
3:00 pm–4:30 pm ET
This 1.5 hour session will be a discussion on the principles of trauma informed care as it relates to stress response and dysregulation.
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This 1.5 hour session will be a discussion on the principles of trauma informed care as it relates to stress response and dysregulation. The discussion will cover topics such as Post Traumatic Stress Disorder and Pregnant and Postpartum Women.
This training will be held via Zoom. We would prefer that you log in using a computer with a web cam so that we can all connect to each other via video. Please note that signing on with video is required to receive CEs. If you do not have access to a web cam, please let us know.
OTP and OBAT staff providing treatment for substance use disorders
MD, FACLP
Leena Mittal is an Instructor at Harvard Medical School and Director of the Reproductive Psychiatry Consultation Service at Brigham and Women's Hospital where she works closely with obstetric colleagues and teaches Harvard medical students, residents and fellows about perinatal and medical psychiatry. She is a graduate of the Harvard Longwood Psychiatry Residency Training Program and has completed a fellowship in Psychosomatic Medicine at Brigham and Women's Hospital. As a member of the Medical Psychiatry service at Brigham and Women's Hospital, she works closely with medical students, residents and psychosomatic medicine and addictions fellows, and she facilitates psychiatric liaison work with the obstetric service at the largest obstetric center in Massachusetts. Her clinical and academic interests include development of embedded and collaborative care models to provide care for complex perinatal patients with mental health needs including a buprenorphine treatment program for opioid dependent pregnant and postpartum women embedded within a prenatal care setting as well as a perinatal mental health program within the Neonatal Intensive Care Unit.
Review principles of trauma informed care as it relates to stress response and dysregulation.
Describe how to recognize symptoms of Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD) and adaptations to care to improve treatment response.
PPPW as an example of how to apply trauma informed care.
Discuss potential triggers in the OTP setting and interventions to better implement the principles of the trauma informed care model in that setting.
Bureau of Substance Addiction Services
Boston Medical Center grants 1.50 hours to all nurses who attend, complete the evaluation, and complete the post test. Boston Medical Center is approved as a provider of continuing professional development by American Nurses Association, Massachusetts, an accredited approver by the American Nurses Credentialing Center’s Commission on Accreditation.
Boston University School of Social Work which is authorized through the MA state board of Social Work to provide 1.50 CE Credit Hours.
Grayken Center for Addiction TTA is a program of Boston Medical Center (BMC), a 514-bed academic medical center located in Boston's historic South End and the largest safety-net hospital in New England.
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