Parenting: Passions and Pain 25 November 2019

Workshop by Dr Maria Muzik MD

Motherhood in the Face of Trauma: Vulnerability, Resilience and Therapeutic Interventions

26 November 2019

Adelaide Convention Centre Riverbank Rooms 6,7,8 North Terrace, Adelaide

Women’s and Children’s Health Network Child and Adolescent Mental Health Service

Perinatal and Infant Mental Health Services Helen Mayo House Annual Conference

Invitation “The heart can think of no devotion Greater than being shore to the ocean - Holding the curve of one position, Counting an endless repetition” -Robert Frost

We invite you to the 2019 Helen Mayo House Annual Conference, a two day event of education and inspiration on the theme of “Parenting: Passions and Pain”. Passions of different sorts drive both conception and the desire to have a family. The closeness of being “shore to the ocean” is often yearned for, yet the endless repetitions of parenting challenge all new parents, with some experiencing distress, illness and pain in the process. The passions and pain of infants are equally intense.

To address these issues, from the University of Michigan we are thrilled to be joined by Dr Maria Muzik, who will give a plenary talk on day 1 on the topic of vulnerability, resilience and effective therapy for mothers with trauma histories. Maria will then expand further on this topic in a longer workshop on day 2 which promises to be indispensable to clinicians in our field. In other plenary talks we welcome also academic psychologist Robyn Young reporting on detection of early indicators of autism in infants, and academic midwife Charlene Thornton presenting her work linking large datasets to illuminate connections between maternal anxiety and infant outcomes. Last but not least, we are delighted to be joined by author Nicola Redhouse who has written movingly of her own experience of postnatal anxiety and depression in her memoir, ‘’Unlike the Heart: A Memoir of Brain and Mind”.

In addition, we have assembled a rich array of workshops presented by local experts from both within and outside SA Health. Tonia Mezzini returns to provide further insights on helping postnatal couples reconnect sexually, while Jackie Amos also returns to present a workshop on reunification of families after Child Protection intervention. Other topics will include Aboriginal families, postpartum psychosis, reflective practice and more. With opportunities to connect with colleagues, browse the pop-up book store and enjoy the riverside location of the Adelaide Convention Centre, we expect that you will find the conference to be rewarding on many levels.

Dr Rebecca Hill A/Medical Unit Head Helen Mayo House

This 2 day event is suitable for all professionals who work with families with maternal mental illness or trauma

Social Event: Drinks Reception: Monday 25 November, 5:30pm – 6:30pm Adelaide Convention Centre, Riverside Foyer Join friends and colleagues to network and hear guest speaker, Dr Anne Sved Williams talk about the highlight of her career so far. Enjoy a performance by the South Australian Public Primary Schools Choir. Drinks and canapes provided. Cost : $39.00 Registration Desk: The registration desk is located in the Riverbank Foyer at the Adelaide Convention Centre will be open for registrants to sign in from 8:00am on Monday 25 and Tuesday 26 November. Book Purchases: The following books are available to pre-order through Eventbrite at time of registration: Cost: $15.00. Books to be collected at the Registration Desk on day of conference Jake’s Dinosaurs, Author: Dr Anne Sved Williams, Meltdown Moments, Author: Dr Anne Sved Williams Robby Rose and Monkey, Author: Andrea Louis Unlike the Heart: A Memoir of Brain and Mind, Author. Nicola Redhouse will be available, Cost: TBA ‘Mostly Books’ Pop Up Book Store: Monday 25 November at the Riverside Foyer

EFTPOS available Registration Fees: Day 1: Monday 25 November 2019

Registration type Early bird (before 1/11/19) Full rate

General admission $275 $340

Students $150 $185

Groups (6+) $250 $310

Drinks Reception - $39

Day 2: Tuesday 26 November 2019

General admission $155 $195

Students $125 $155

Groups (6+) $140 $175

Full conference (both days)

General admission $380 $450

Students $200 $250

Groups $340 $425

• For more information, visit the Helen Mayo House page on the Women’s and Children’s Hospital website at www.wch.org.au

• Enquiries to Tina Bull from Helen Mayo House on 7087 1047 or email Health.PIMHSHelenMayoHouse@sa.gov.au)

• Register today via Eventbrite (https://hmhconference2019-parenting-passions-and-pain.eventbrite.com.au) Or : via Google Chrome: Eventbrite Link

General Information: For information on car parking, disability access, public transport and directions from the Adelaide Airport, please go to : http://www.adelaidecc.com.au/visiting/the-centre/.

Adelaide Metro also provides useful information on public transport. https://adelaidemetro.com.au/ If you require accommodation, please visit: https://www.adelaidecc.com.au/visiting/travelling-to-adelaide

Invited keynote speakers

Maria Muzik, MD Associate Professor, University of Michigan Department of Psychiatry and Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology Co-Director, Women and Infants Mental Health Program (WIMHP) Dr. Muzik has held a faculty appointment at the University of Michigan Department of Psychiatry since 2006. Her expertise is in women’s mental health, focusing on pregnancy and postpartum, and she conducts cutting-edge research, directs patient care services, and oversees educational programming in these areas. In her clinical role in the Department of Psychiatry, Dr. Muzik co-directs the Women and Infants Mental Health Program and serves as Medical Director of the Perinatal Psychiatry Clinic, a nationally known program serving hundreds of women each

year with pregnancy or postpartum related mood difficulties. Within Michigan Medicine, Dr. Muzik leads the integration of perinatal mental health services within obstetrics, family medicine and pediatrics. Across the state of Michigan, she is the lead perinatal consultant to primary care, public health nursing, community mental health and other health systems. She is a member of the Task Force on Developing the National Curriculum in Reproductive Psychiatry. Dr. Muzik holds a master’s degree in Clinical Research and Statistical Analysis from the University of Michigan School of Public Health. She conducts research focused on the study of stress, trauma and mental illness in the context of childbearing, its influence on parenting and the developing parent-infant relationship, and how to support families in overcoming adversity. She is particularly interested in understanding the links between inherited genes and environmental exposure in shaping a person’s risk and resiliency across the life span. Dr. Muzik has published over 100 peer-reviewed articles and book chapters, and co-edited a book on motherhood in the face of trauma. She directs a number of federally and foundation funded studies focused on interpersonal violence, posttraumatic stress, depression in pregnancy and postpartum and their effects on the developing child, and on interventions to buffer risks and enhance resilience. Areas of interest: • Perinatal Psychiatry: Depression and Anxiety during pregnancy and postpartum • Prevention and Therapy of Mother-Infant relationship and attachment disturbances • Impact of maternal/family psychiatric illness on early child development • Trauma, Stress & Posttraumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD) during childbearing years • Neurobiology of Stress, Depression and PTSD • Parent-Infant Relationships in Postpartum Depression and Anxiety Disorders; Infant Attachment

Disorders • Precursors of early infant stress and emotion regulation Maria is also the co-director for Zero To Thrive and link to this website below. https://medicine.umich.edu/dept/psychiatry/programs/zero-thrive

Invited keynote speakers cont’d Nicola Redhouse is the author of Unlike the Heart: A Memoir of Brain and Mind. She has been published widely in Australian literary journals and anthologies, writing on the themes of neuroscience, psychoanalysis among others. She has also worked as a book editor since 2005, and is based in Melbourne with her husband and two sons.

Associate Professor Charlene Thornton is a midwife and an epidemiologist and Head of Midwifery at Flinders University. Her clinical and research career spans 25 years and the focus on her research interests have always centred around high risk pregnancies and making pregnancy safer. Charlene was awarded the HDA Women’s Excellence in Research Award in 2018 and regularly presents her team’s research findings focussing on short and long term health associations between pregnancy complications and birth events for mothers and babies. Charlene in a foundation member of the Caring Futures Institute at Flinders University and is an international collaborator in the use of linked data for the

assessment of maternal and children’s health.

Robyn Young, College of Education, Psychology and Social work, Flinders University. Professor Young’s interest in autism began while studying savants as part of her PhD in Savant Syndrome. This work became the subject of an ABC documentary titled Uncommon Genius. She went on to develop a screening tool for Autistic Disorder suitable for use in children as young as 12 months of age. This tool, known as the Autism Detection in Early Childhood (ADEC; ACER, 2007), clearly operationalises early behaviours indicative of autism. Together with colleagues at Flinders University she has developed an intervention program called SPECTRA (ACER, 2009). Her work has now turned to older persons with Autism

Spectrum Disorder. Specifically she is interested in why persons with ASD may become unwittingly involved in crime.

Workshop presenters Dr Jackie Amos is a child and adolescent Psychiatrist, Gestalt psycho-therapist and clinical academic. In her doctoral research, Jackie developed two complementary models of how neglect and abuse are transmitted relationally between generations and the role of trauma in maintaining relationship difficulties. Jackie used these models to understand the key objectives of treatment for families where the care and protection of children is compromised, and to consider the mechanism of action of a novel dyadic psychotherapy, Parallel Parent and Child Therapy. Jackie works clinically at Centacare in the Children’s Services Unit, and continues her research with the Health Economics and Social Policy Group at the University of South Australia. Her doctoral research informs the therapeutic case management interventions offered in the Children’s Service Unit, at Centacare. Jackie has a particular interest in supporting the reunification of families where intergenerational trauma has severely compromised a family’s capacity to care for their children. Valerie Aylesbury is a Registered Nurse and Midwife with further study in Graduate Diploma in Health Counselling, IBLC Lactation Consultant, Graduate Diploma Child, Adolescent and Family Health. Completed a Master in Perinatal and Infant Mental Health in 2009 and has since worked predominantly in this area of Perinatal Infant Mental Health in a variety of roles within SA Health. She has also facilitated Acorn groups for Anglicare SA for women parenting with Mental Illness which provide a dynamic program including dance/play and therapeutic journaling to promote the maternal infant relationship. Valerie currently works at Nunkuwarring Yunti with Aboriginal women as a Perinatal Infant Mental Health Clinician providing individual and group therapies. Dr Liz Coventry is a consultant psychiatrist with Perinatal and Infant Mental Health Services - Helen Mayo House. She has been working in this field since 2013 when she assisted in setting up Helen Mayo House’s Peek A Boo Clinic. She has completed Advanced Certificates in Child and Adolescent Mental Health and also in dynamic psychotherapy. She has also completed a Graduate Diploma in Infant Mental Health from Edith Cowan University. She has an interest in dyadic and individual long-term psychotherapy, with a particular focus on trauma and bodywork.

Workshop presenters cont’d

Dr Rebecca Hill is a consultant psychiatrist with Perinatal and Infant Mental Health Services - Helen Mayo House. She has been working in the field of perinatal psychiatry for over 10 years, beginning her psychiatry training at the University of Arizona, USA. Prior to commencing with Helen Mayo House, Rebecca worked at the Werribee Mercy Mother Baby Unit in Melbourne for 5 years, and completed the Graduate Diploma of Infant and Parent Mental Health at the University of Melbourne in 2012. Rebecca's work with mothers with mental illness and their families is informed by the fields of attachment theory, psychodynamic concepts including the importance of reflective function in parents, and infant-parent psychotherapy. Joy Makepeace is a proud Kamilaroi woman (Northern New South Wales) and mother of three children aged, 22, 14 and 12 years old. She is a member of the Stolen Generations and has lived in Adelaide for the past 30 years. Joy has a wide and varied educational background. Her undergraduate studies are in Applied Science (Conservation and Park Management) followed by a secondary teaching degree and finally a Masters in Social Science (Counselling). She has over 20 years of work history within Aboriginal education and health work settings. She has worked at TAFESA, Nunkuwarrin Yunti (SA Link-Up), University of South Australia, Department of Education and Children's Services, SHineSA (Sexual Health) and Aboriginal Family Support Services, Northern Health Network and currently at Nunkuwarrin Yunti in the Child and Maternal Health Team. Joy’s passion is health and healing and she has a bookcase full of books that reflect these topics. She believes that education is the key to a successful future, but since becoming a facilitator of Circle of Security - Parenting Program has come to understand that a strong attachment, safe and secure upbringing enables us to feel connected and is what makes us truly grow into a well round individual. More recently she is learning more about how adverse childhood experiences impact on chronic health conditions later in life and this is capturing her interest at present. ‘I love what I do and I do what I love’. ‘Happy to share and walk with you on part of your life learning and journey.’ Dr Tonia Mezzini is a Sexual Health Physician with a special interest in chronic pelvic pain, vulval disorders, hormonal concerns and transgender health care. She has a Master of HIV, STI and Sexual Health from Sydney University. Tonia consults from Advanced Gynaecological Surgery Centre, Adelaide Oncology and Haematology and Welland Health. She has an academic appointment with the Adelaide University Rural Medical School. In her spare time, she is studying for a Master in Psychiatry at Melbourne University. Dr Ros Powrie is a child and adolescent psychiatrist and head of the Perinatal and Infant Mental Health Services, Women’s and Children’s Health Network, SA. She is based at The Women’s and Children’s Hospital. She provides a visiting perinatal and infant psychiatry service to Maari Ma Aboriginal Health Corp in Broken Hill. She is President of the SA Branch of the Australian Association for Infant Mental Health and is a board member of National AAIMH. She is a member of the Mindfulness Teacher Network SA. Meg Prior is a psychologist who is working as the parent-infant therapist with Perinatal and Infant Mental Health Services – Helen Mayo House. Meg has over 15 years’ experience in working with families with high and complex needs. Previously Meg has worked in the adult mental health, child protection and infant mental health fields. Her current interests include working with mentally unwell women and their babies to enhance infant and attachment reflective functioning. Meg works in both individual and group settings. Dr Anne Sved Williams, Consultant Psychiatrist and former Medical Unit Head of Perinatal and Infant Mental Health Services, Helen Mayo House until May this year. She is Senior Clinical Lecturer in Psychiatry, University of Adelaide and has taught perinatal and infant mental health for an extremely long time. Anne is the author of ‘Jake’s Dinosaurs’ and ‘Meltdown Moments’. Her research and clinical passion in the last several years is helping mothers with borderline personality disorder and their infants. Her workshop will be sponsored by MHPN with an interdisciplinary approach as these families need a team.

Jane Woolmer originally trained as a nurse in the UK and spent 22 years working in General, Paediatric, Neonatal, Specialist School Health and Child and Adolescent Mental Health Nursing, which included training and working as a Clinical Associate in CAMHS at The Tavistock Centre in London. Jane migrated to Australia in 2008 has worked as a Clinical Nurse and Clinical Practice Consultant in a variety of clinical settings. During her time at Helen Mayo House Jane also worked in The National Perinatal Mental Health Initiative. She has also trained in Marte Meo Therapy, Parallel Parent Child Narrative Therapy and Interpersonal Psychotherapy with Adolescents. She has been involved in teaching at UNI SA and Flinders University. Jane now works in the new CAMHS Centralised Triage Service “CAMHS Connect”. She has lots of areas of interest but at the heart of her practice are the values of advocacy and compassion. She has a particular interest in reflective clinical supervision and was in a reflective psychodrama group for 9 years. In the workshop Jane would like to present some clinical vignettes with her work with infants, children, and adolescents and parents, and will demonstrate how the pain of the work can be overcome with the use of learnings from psychodrama and psychoanalytical supervision.

Day 1 : Conference Program Monday, 25 November 2019 Parenting:Passions and Pain

8.00am Registration and arrival tea/coffee/water

PLENARY I: Riverbank Rooms 6,7,8

8:40am Introduction

8:50am Official opening

9:00am Dr Maria Muzik, MD: Motherhood in the face of trauma: Vulnerability, resilience and therapeutic interventions

1 0:00am Professor Robyn Young - Early signs of ASD

10:45am Morning tea (Riverbank Foyer)

11:05am - 12:30pm Concurrent Workshops (I)

1a Jane Woolmer : The impact of the work on the worker (Riverbank Rm 2)

2a Dr Liz Coventry: Trauma and dissociation (Riverbank Rm 3)

3a Meg Prior: The eyes have it: the role of gaze in infant mental health (Riverbank Rm 4)

4a Dr Rebecca Hill: Could it be postpartum psychosis? What clinicians need to know (Rm 5)

5a Dr Tonia Mezzini: Couples and sexuality after babies (Riverbank Rm 6,7,8)

12:30 – 1.15pm Lunch (Riverbank Foyer) (Book signing by Author, Nicola Redhouse)

PLENARY II: Riverbank Rooms 6,7,8

1.15pm Associate Professor Charlene Thornton: TBA

2.15pm Nicola Redhouse: Mothering in body and mind: Nicola Redhouse’ story

3:15 Afternoon tea (Riverbank Foyer)

3: 30pm - 4: 45pm Concurrent Workshops (II)

1b Valerie Aylesbury and Joy Makepeace: Aboriginal Families (Riverbank Rm 2) 2b Dr Anne Sved Williams, AM: The panorama of perinatal emotional dysregulation (Rm 3)

This session is sponsored by the MHPN (Mental Health Professionals Network)

3b Steve Sheehy: Fathers (Riverbank Rm 4)

4b Dr Jackie Amos: Reunification work after child protection Intervention (Riverbank Rm 5)

5b Dr Ros Powrie: Trauma and the body (Riverbank Rm 6,7,8) 4:45pm Close SOCIAL EVENT: Drinks Reception in the Riverbank Foyer 5:30pm – 6:30pm Join friends and colleagues to network and hear guest speaker, Dr Anne Sved Williams talk about the highlights of her career with Perinatal and Infant Mental Health Services so far. Enjoy a performance by the South Australian Public Primary Schools Choir. Drinks and canapes provided.

Day 2: All day workshop by Dr Maria Muzik, MD Tuesday, 26 November 2019

Motherhood in the Face of Trauma:

Vulnerability, Resilience and Therapeutic Interventions

Riverbank Rooms 6,7,8

8.00am Registration and arrival tea/coffee/water

8:30am Dr Maria Muzik’s workshop will be a continuation of the theme of “Motherhood in the Face of Trauma: Vulnerability, Resilience and Therapeutic Interventions”

The day will provide education and discussions on:

• how to work with traumatized, at-risk mothers/parents in the face of issues such as depression, complex PTSD and substance use

• detection (e.g., screen for risk in primary care), engagement strategies and what intervention to offer to support healing, parenting and resilience

• the impact of maternal/parental trauma & psychopathology & contextual (sociodemographic, etc…) risk on parenting, and child development and how to support children’s resilience in the face of trauma.

• Examples of questions to be covered will include: what does it mean to be trauma-informed, relationship focused and strength-

based? what are barriers to engagement and healing? what may be facilitators for healing? How do we prevent vicarious trauma and

burn-out in helpers?

Morning tea and lunch will be provided within the program

3:00pm Close Women’s and Children’s Health Network 72 King William Road, North Adelaide SA 5006 ABN: 64 021 748 126

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PIMHS, Helen Mayo House Annual Conference 2019 Parenting: Passions and Pain

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