Supporting Parental Mental Health Through a Trauma Informed Lens
Insights from Dr Asha Patel (Innovating Minds) and Judith Rees (The For Baby’s Sake Trust)
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This webinar explores how trauma affects parental mental health, how trauma responses influence parenting, and how professionals can support safe, stable and nurturing child parent relationships using trauma informed practice.
Key learning includes:
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How trauma is encoded in the nervous system and re triggered by everyday experiences
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How parents may experience hyper arousal, emotional numbing, sensory memories, cognitive distortions and re living
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The impact of trauma on emotional regulation, stress responses and the parent child relationship
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Practical, trauma informed approaches practitioners can apply immediately
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Real examples from The For Baby’s Sake Trust’s work with families