Expert E-Course Curriculum

Join a group of PMAD providers for 8 weeks of course content as well as live group meetings and individual consultation with PMAD Experts Elizabeth Stallone-Lowder MSW, LCSW and Kim Martino-Sexton.

  • 1

    Get Started Here!

    • Welcome to the Expert E-Course!

    • Learning Objectives for The Heartland Protocol E-Course

    • #1 Video: Meet Your Experts!
  • 2

    Chapter 1: Overview of The Heartland Protocol

    • Chapter 1 Topics

    • Chapter 1 Power Point

    • #3 Video: PMAD By the Numbers; Cultural Considerations and the Pandemic

    • Executive+Summary-Maternal+Suicide+Report-9.22

    • #4 Video: PMAD Chart

    • #5 Video: PMAD Diagnoses, Symptoms and Causes

    • #6 Video: Matresence as a Perinatal Life Stage

    • THP Homework Week 1
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    Chapter 2: Compassion Fatigue and Burnout prevention

    • Chapter 2 Topics

    • Chapter 2 Power Point

    • #7 Video: The three components of self-compassion

    • #8 Video: Be kinder to yourself video

    • THP Homework Week 2
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    Chapter 3: H is for Hearing & Holding Space

    • Chapter 3 Topics

    • Chapter 3 Power Point

    • Listen poem

    • #9 Video: Refuge in Grief / Megan Devine Video on Acknowledgement

    • #10 Video: (Inside Out) What Empathetic Listening Looks Like

    • #11 Video: 4 Steps to Improve Your Listening Skills Video

    • Holding Space article

    • #12 Video: What it really means to hold space video

    • THP Homework Week 3

    • Heather Plett podcast interview

    • 5 Tips to Practice Holding Space
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    Chapter 4: E is for Empathy

    • Chapter 4 Topics

    • Chapter 4 Power Point

    • #15 Video Empathy Explained

    • 31 Empathy Statements

    • 31 Statements to Show You Care

    • Examples of Empathy

    • #16 Video Dr. Brene Brown on Empathy vs Sympathy

    • 4 Attributes of Empathy

    • #17 Video: Dr. Helen Riess "The Power of Empathy"

    • EMPATHY Acronym by Dr. Helen Riess

    • THP Homework Week 4

    • BONUS Video: Developing Empathy as a Practice: Stephane Briggs

    • Cohort Resources on Empathy

    • Do You Want to be Heard, Helped or Hugged?

    • Empathy is Not a Natural Trait

    • How Non Judgemental Engagement Could Reduce Prejudice

    • The Neuroscience of Taking Empathic Action Ft. Dr. Lisa Aziz-Zadeh Purposeful Empathy

    • Listening Visits for maternal depression: a meta-analysis
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    Chapter 5: A is for Assessment

    • Chapter 5 Topics

    • Chap 5 Power Point

    • #18 Video: Assessment Part 1

    • Professional Quality of Life Survey

    • Edinburg Postnatal Depression Scale

    • Patient Health Questionnaire - 2 (PHQ-2)

    • Perinatal Anxiety Assessment Screening (PASS)

    • ACES: Adverse Childhood Experiences Survey

    • Article about ACES from NPR

    • 2020 mom Screening Brief 2022

    • #19 Video: Assessment Part 2

    • Policy Center for Maternal Mental Health website: What are maternal ACES?

    • What are ABEs? Adverse Babyhood Experiences

    • Journal Article: Adverse Babyhood Experiences (ABEs) Increase Risk for Infant and Maternal Morbidity and Mortality, and Chronic Illness by Veronique P. Mead

    • ABEs Survey

    • THP Homework Week 5

    • Policy Center for Maternal Mental Health : What are ACES?
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    Chapter 6: R is for Referral

    • Chapter 6 Topics

    • Chap 6 Power Point

    • #20 Video: R is for Referral

    • Heartland Circle of Support Questions

    • Heartland Circle of Support

    • Heartland Key Partners

    • Heartland SWOT Analysis

    • THP Homework Week 6
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    Chapter 7: T is for Touch Base and D.I.R.E.

    • Chapter 7 Topics

    • Chap 7 Power Point Part 1

    • #21 Video: Deconstructing White Privilege with Dr. Robin DiAngelo

    • Chapter 7 Power Point Part 2 _ D.I.R.E.

    • #22 Video: How Racism Effects Pregnancy and What Can Help by Miriam Zoila Perez:

    • #23 Video: Why are black mothers and babies dying at such alarming rates? by Flourish STL

    • THP Homework Week 7
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    Chapter 8: Review, Synthesis and Application of The Heartland Protocol

    • Chapter 8 Topics

    • Case Study #1

    • Case Study #2

    • Expert Heartland Protocol QUIZ

    • Expert Heartland Protocol Survey and Evaluation

    • Heartland Protocol Final Exam