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POSTPARTUM SUPPORT INTERNATIONAL
13TH ANNUAL CONFERENCE
UNIVERSITY OF BRITISH COLUMBIA
VANCOUVER, BRITISH COLUMBIA, CANADA
JUNE 23 - 27, 1999
BROADENING OUR HORIZONS
“Working together to blend the traditional with the practical”
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WEDNESDAY, JUNE 23, 9:00AM - 5:00PM
Pre-Conference Workshop
An Expanded Understanding of Mood and Anxiety Disorders
in the Context of a Woman’s Life: The Postpartum Period
Speakers: Jeanne Watson Driscoll, MS,RN,CS
Deborah A. Sichel, MD
Objectives: the participants will:
1. Discuss the mind-body connection within the realm of mood and anxiety
disorders
2. Discuss the context of the postpartum experience in relation to the
phenomenology of a woman’s life
3. Discuss how “living life” has a biological impact on women
4. Describe treatment modalities based on this expanded paradigm
THURSDAY, JUNE 24
8:30AM - 4:30PM Postpartum Support International Board of Directors Meeting
2:00PM - 6:00PM “LET’S TALK ABOUT SEX”...Presented by The Reproductive
Psychiatry Program at St. Paul’s Hospital, Vancouver, BC
1. Welcome & Introduction Dr. Kristin Sivertz, Clinical Director,
Psychiatry, Clinical Professor Psychiatry, UBC
2. Trouble In Paradise: Sex, Intimacy & Postpartum Depression - Michal
Regev
3. Sex and Medications: What’s “Hot”, What’s “Not”!! - Dr. Diana Carter
4. Sexual Abuse and Postpartum Depression. - Dr. Shaila Misri & Ariel
Cantin
4:00PM - 9:00PM CONFERENCE REGISTRATION
6:00PM - 8:00PM WELCOME - WINE AND CHEESE RECEPTION (no host bar)
FRIDAY, JUNE 25
7:30AM - 8:30AM CONTINENTAL BREAKFAST
8:30AM - 8:45AM GREETINGS FROM POSTPARTUM SUPPORT INTERNATIONAL
8:45AM - 10:00AM “INTERPERSONAL PSYCHOTHERAPY FOR POSTPARTUM DEPRESSION:
ADJUSTMENT IN THE FIRST SIX MONTHS FOLLOWING TREATMENT”
Dr. Michael O’Hara, USA
10:00AM - 10:30AM COFFEE
10:30AM - 11:45AM BREAKOUT SESSIONS (Choices)
A. When Support Groups Don’t Work - Pacific Postpartum Support Society,
Canada
B. Not Tonight Dear, the Baby Will Hear Us - Dr. Pamela Shrock, USA
C. Basic Skills for starting a support group - Sonia Murdock & Jane
Honikman, USA & Bronwen Bruch, Canada
D. Instilling Hope: A guide to recovery - Honey Watts & Marta Dixon, Canada
11:45AM - 1:00PM LUNCH - on your own
1:00PM - 2:15PM BREAKOUT SESSIONS (Choices)
E. Approaches to help mothers with postpartum depression in Mexico: Our
past, present, and future. -Leonor Luna , Mexico
F. “Baby Cards” As a Missed Opportunity for Postpartum Support: A
Component Analysis of their Symbols and Text - Dr. Laurence
Kruckman, USA
G. Screening for postpartum depression within a community health setting:
Costs and Benefits - Cathy Harlan & Julie Rowe, Canada
H. Determining degrees of needed support in the immediate early postpartum
period -Dr. Marilyn Fraktman, USA
2:15PM - 2:45PM COFFEE
2:45PM - 4:00PM BREAKOUT SESSIONS (Choices)
I. Towards a better understanding of postpartum depression in context - Liz
Mills, South Africa
J. Beyond the basics: Sustaining and funding your self-help support group -
Sonia Murdock & Jane Honikman, USA & Bronwen Bruch, Canada
K. Work Discrimination and Mood Disorders in Pregnancy and
Postpartum - Dr. Susanne Steinberg, Canada
L. Stress Management for postpartum moms and dads - Dr. Pamela Shrock,
USA
4:00PM - 4:15PM WRAP-UP
4:15PM - 6:00PM UNWIND.........
6:00PM - 9:00PM VANCOUVER HARBOUR DINNER CRUISE (bring warm comfortable
clothing)
SATURDAY, JUNE 26
7:30AM - 8:30AM CONTINENTAL BREAKFAST
8:30AM - 8:45AM GOOD MORNING AND ANNOUNCEMENTS
8:45AM - 12:00NOON “FACING FIRE - MANAGING ANGER IN OUR LIVES”
Stacey Holloway, The Oldring Group, Vancouver, Canada
10:30AM COFFEE
12:00NOON - 2:00PM NETWORKING LUNCH - PSI ANNUAL GENERAL
MEETING - AWARDS (Lunch provided)
2:00PM - 3:15PM BREAKOUT SESSIONS (Choices)
M. Use of the Internet for prenatal & postpartum education, promotion, and
marketing - Julia Benton, J@M Internet Consulting, Canada & Dr. Laurence
Kruckman, USA
N. A Mother’s Tears: Understanding the mood swings that follow childbirth -
Dr. Arlene Huysman, USA
O. Mama’s Voyage: Utilizing the Arts as a Networking Tool in Creating
Awareness and Empathy - Sheryl Cozad, USA
P. Anger Skills: A hands on experience. Stacey Holloway, Oldring
Consulting, Vancouver, Canada
3:15PM - 3:45PM COFFEE
3:45PM - 5:00PM BREAKOUT SESSIONS (Choices)
Q. Out of the darkness and into the light: Women’s experiences with
depression after childbirth - Kathy Berggren-Clive, Canada
R. Postpartum Depression in context: A family systems approach - Dr. Gabor
Mate, Canada
S. PSI Coordinators: Making Strides In the new millennium - Sonia Murdock
& Andrea Dresser, USA
T. Anger Skills: A hands on experience. Stacey Holloway, Oldring
Consulting, Vancouver, Canada
U. Infanticide/Neonaticide. - Dr. Margaret Spinelli, USA
5:00PM Wrap-up
6:00PM - 9PM SALMON BARBEQUE - UNIVERSITY CENTRE (former Faculty Club)
SUNDAY, JUNE 27
7:30AM - 8:30AM CONTINENTAL BREAKFAST
8:30AM - 8:45AM WELCOME & ANNOUNCEMENTS
8:45AM - 11:00AM WHOLISTIC HEALTH AND HEALING FOR POSTPARTUM WOMEN: BLENDING
BEHAVIOURAL HEALTH AND NURSING PRACTICE. - Dr. Diane Sanford & Susan Kendig
RNC, MSN, WHCNP, USA
11:00AM - 11:30AM COFFEE
11:30AM - 12:00PM EVALUATION AND WRAP-UP
For more information, contact:
Phone: (604)731-3755
Fax: (604)263-1057
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