What Therapists Need to Know About Perinatal and Early Relational Health: A Guide to Anti-Oppressive Counseling with Caregivers, Babies, and Young Chi [Hardcover]

Section 1: Introduction ?1. Bridging the Gaps Observed: Reflections on Counseling Perinatal Caregivers and their Little Ones??Section 2:?Establishing the Framework??2. Grounding the Relational Approach to Therapy? 3. An Overview of the Perinatal Period? 4. Supporting Babies and Young Children? 5. Leaning into Reflective Practice? 6. Aspiring to Embody Cultural Humility??Section 3: Conducting Assessments??7. Partnering Through the Assessment? 8. The Invitation to Deepen the Relationship??Section 4: Interventions for Perinatal Individuals and their Little Ones??9. Parental Reflective Capacity? 10. Play as a Pathway to Healing? 11. The Caregiver as a Whole Person??Section 5.?Transitioning Out of Counseling??12. The Theraputic Pause?

What Therapists Need to Know About Perinatal and Early Relational Health?is a vital and timely text that will strengthen any clinicians awareness and competence when working with children, infants, and caregivers.

What Therapists Need to Know About Perinatal and Early Relational Health is a vital and timely text that will strengthen any clinicians awareness and competence when working with children, infants, and caregivers. All the chapters are written from a framework of cultural humility to support the competent care of individuals with different intersectionalities. Cultural humility involves critical self-reflection and critique of values, beliefs, and experiences, and so each chapter provides reflective questions and tools that support clinicians' anti-oppressive practices.

What Therapists Need to Know About Perinatal and Early Relational Health offers practical strategies that are rooted in diversity-informed tenets and support reflection on our valc