Birth Trauma – Understanding Its Origins and the Urgent Need to Do More

This webinar will focus on the origins of birth trauma and maternal PTSD featuring Dr. Sharon Dekel, a foremost expert in postpartum PTSD.  Dr. Sharon Dekel is a licensed clinical psychologist and Associate Professor of Psychology at Harvard Medical School (HMS). She is also the Director of the Postpartum Traumatic Stress Disorders Research Program at Massachusetts General Hospital (MGH) and the Dekel Lab at HMS and MGH. Her lab studies women’s mental health following the landmark event of childbirth, including traumatic childbirth, and the mechanisms responsible for postpartum adjustment. In addition to featuring a mother’s birth trauma story, the Policy Center team will also share recommendations for providers and hospitals to take to prevent and support those with birth trauma.