Workshop: Social Media and PMADs

Social Media and Perinatal Mental Health for Clinicians Presenter: Noah Suzuki, LPC, Perinatal Mental Health Counselor, The Postpartum Stress Center, and Director of Programming, The Karen Kleiman Training Center. Description: This training aims to account for the prominent role that social media now plays in the perinatal experience. While the wealth of information available at our fingertips can bolster a collective sense of direction and comfort in the population of new parents, it has also shown the ability to provoke insecurity, fear, and fixation. This pertains to NBCC content areas: Counseling Theory/Practice and the Counseling Relationship and Assessment. Learning Objectives: This training aims to equip clinicians and parents with the following... 1. How to set boundaries/limits? 2. Ways to identify toxic information sources 3. How are we responding to information? 4. How does the algorithm operate (feedback loop)? 5. How to identify and help manage weaponized selection / salience bias; e.g., Anxiety is biased, and it is going to latch onto the most anxiety-inducing information. In addition, participants will: 1. Be invited to discuss relevant cases and receive in-depth consultation. 2. Be able to discuss the challenges inherent in this work in the age of Social Media, the concerns they have about it and the opportunity to process this discomfort. 2 CE hrs The Postpartum Stress Center, LLC has been approved by NBCC as an Approved Continuing Education Provider, ACEP No. 7461. Programs that do not qualify for NBCC credit are clearly identified. The Postpartum Stress Center, LLC is solely responsible for all aspects of the programs.