1. Define trauma, traumatic stress, and post-traumatic stress disorder.
2. Understand common sources of personal trauma and traumatic stress.
3. Discuss the influences of complex trauma, historical trauma, and intergenerational trauma.
4. Understand physical and psychological impacts of trauma and traumatic stress on parent, fetal and newborn well-being.
5. Identify behaviors and coping techniques in midwifery clients that may indicate a history of trauma or current trauma.
6. List clinical events and routine midwifery practices that may trigger trauma memories.
7. Learn best practices to respond appropriately to client disclosures of trauma, current trauma, re-traumatization, or triggering.
8. Describe specific strategies midwives can use to help clients cope with post-traumatic stress symptoms and somatic trauma memories.
9. Develop tools to support client resilience and trauma healing during pregnancy, labor, birth, and the postpartum period.
10. Develop culturally safe and trauma-informed approaches to sexual, reproductive, and end-of-life care choices.
11. Develop resource lists of pre-screened, trauma-informed referrals.
12. Incorporate knowledge of local laws and regulations into trauma-informed midwifery care.
13. Differentiate between trauma-informed and trauma-specific interventions, and understand how to implement both within midwifery care.
14. Critically evaluate practice policies, procedures, communication, advertising, education, and structures with a trauma-informed lens.
15. Describe the value of and rationale for trauma-informed midwifery practices and communities.
16. Understand the impacts of vicarious trauma and secondary trauma; and the importance of provider self-care and trauma healing.
Midwives College of Utah. (2022).COMM 2010: Providing Trauma-Informed Care. Midwives College of Utah Midwifing Midwives, 4-5. https://midwifery.instructure.com/courses/3361/assignments/syllabus
