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  • 19 - Traumatic childbirth and the role of debriefing

  • from Part III - Adaptations of debriefing models
  • Edited by Beverley Raphael, New South Wales Health Department, Sydney, John Wilson, Cleveland State University
  • Book:
    Psychological Debriefing
    Published online:
    06 January 2010
    Print publication:
    12 October 2000, pp 272-280

  • Summary

    This chapter considers the potential application of the debriefing model of intervention to women adversely affected by the experience of childbirth, particularly an occasion that might be traumatic. In the terminology used for post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD), antenatal classes are essentially seeking to provide stress inoculation (SI). SI provides a battery of coping strategies aimed at dealing with the event itself, as well as the accompanying emotions. Childbirth has now become relatively safe, and this has resulted in de-emphasizing the impact of childbirth as an event of special significance. Fifteen per cent of pregnancies are miscarried and there is abundant evidence that spontaneous miscarriage is a highly traumatic event for many women who experience it. There is almost a complete absence of research addressing the question of whether some form of debriefing can diminish adverse psychological outcomes following childbirth.