Concurrent Session 3D - Symposium
Tracks
D
Saturday, October 12, 2019 |
11:00 AM - 12:30 PM |
Hamersley Room |
Details
Theme: The infant in the Mother Baby Unit
Speaker
Dr Rebecca Hill
Consultant Psychiatrist
Women's And Children's Health Network
Love and fear in the mother-baby unit: Looking closer at infant outcomes
11:00 AM - 11:30 AMBiography
Dr Rebecca Hill is a consultant psychiatrist at Helen Mayo House, the mother-baby psychiatric inpatient unit for South Australia, and clinical senior lecturer at the University of Adelaide. She completed her psychiatry training at the University of Arizona in Tucson, Arizona USA, and went on to work at the Werribee Mercy Mother-Baby Unit in Melbourne, where she completed a Graduate Diploma in Infant and Parent Mental Health through the University of Melbourne. Her interests include treatment of postpartum psychosis and infant-parent therapy.
Dr Beate Harrison
Perinatal And Infant Psychiatrist
King Edward Maternity Hospital
Towards an Evaluation Framework for Infants and Parents Admitted to Mother Baby Units
11:30 AM - 12:00 PMBiography
MBBS (Hons) FRANZCP Cert.Child Psych.
Dr Beate Harrison is a West Australian perinatal, infant and child psychiatrist who has extensive experience working in outpatient, community and mother baby unit settings with mothers and families in the perinatal period. She has a special interest in early parenting and attachment relationship based work. While working at KEMH MBU she has developed parenting clinical interventions and an attachment based therapy group for mothers and their infants admitted to the ward.
Dr Kristine Mercuri
Perinatal Psychiatrist
Royal Women's Hospital And Mercy Mental Health Mbu
When The Baby Is The Trigger - Clinical Interventions In Mothers With Childhood Trauma Impacting Maternal Bonding
12:00 PM - 12:30 PMPowerPoint Presentation
Biography
Kristine is a Perinatal Psychiatrist at The Royal women Hospital She has devised and implemented a mindfulness based outpatient pregnancy intervention- The MindBabyBody outpatient group program which has been incorporated into the BEAR RCT. Kristine is the consultant Psychiatrist at the Werribee Mercy Mother Baby Unit. She is also and honorary lecturer at the University of Melbourne and passionate about women's mental health and contributing to clinical excellence and knowledge in the perinatal period.
Session Chair
Beate Harrison
Perinatal And Infant Psychiatrist
King Edward Maternity Hospital
