Courtney
MI - Michigan Centering Consortium
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I work at a: Healthcare Facility
My job role is: Healthcare Provider
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Post by Courtney on Feb 13, 2018 15:35:53 GMT -5
Hi, we are looking for some new ideas for CenteringPregnancy session #8 on activities to facilitate discussion about postpartum depression/mood disorders. We use the continuum/card activity but have had challenges with it, either due to literacy, or overlap of many of the symptoms in each phase. Would love to hear what others are using to facilitate this topic. Thanks,
Courtney Hilbert CNM Grand Rapids, MI
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Post by Deleted on Feb 14, 2018 0:17:19 GMT -5
Hi Courtney - I have found the Dear Centering activity very helpful. Not sure if you know this, but it is like a Dear Abby advice column. Write out scenarios, have facilitator read scenarios in group and ask pts to give their best advice to the person who might be experiencing this situation and needs some help. Target your scenarios to what you know your patient population struggles with around being safe at home, e.g. community resources, types of abuse, safety planning, protective measures, emergency planning and more. This can also be done by breaking into small groups, patients in each group share advice for a specific scenario and groups return to larger circle and share the advice they came up with. Conversation builds around patients helping others who might in DV/unsafe situations. I always encourage a behavioral health person to be in this group for support. It is definitely a group to plan with purpose and intention. Lynn Scheidenhelm, LCSW, CHI Director of Innovation
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Post by Deleted on Feb 14, 2018 15:56:28 GMT -5
Hi Courtney - meant that to be around postpartum depression not domestic violence - can use this activity for either. With PP mood disorders it starts a conversation about helping someone else struggling with symptoms that are scary and not knowing whether to tell anyone for fear your baby would be taken away or how/where you can get help, etc. Am wondering whether it would be helpful to organize a Circle Up webinar around this topic Would that be helpful?
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Post by Andrea CCFT on Feb 15, 2018 20:03:05 GMT -5
We use a robe that one facilitator comes in wearing acting like she was just discharged home from hospital, with cards pinned to it with chores a postpartum woman can do at hospital discharge at one week at 2wks and so on. We have women eliminate them in the same order. This usually brings up many of the postpartum blues and postpartum depression sx. Then we bring out the cards and define each state of pp depression and place the cards on the floor. We have the girls separate the small cards with and place on larger cards . We send home with a postpartum self assessment and phone numbers incase they have any sx. Hi, we are looking for some new ideas for CenteringPregnancy session #8 on activities to facilitate discussion about postpartum depression/mood disorders. We use the continuum/card activity but have had challenges with it, either due to literacy, or overlap of many of the symptoms in each phase. Would love to hear what others are using to facilitate this topic. Thanks,
Courtney Hilbert CNM Grand Rapids, MI
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