Trauma Inquiry and Response in Family Planning
About
This webinar will feature a University of California San Francisco (UCSF) pilot project focused on the use of trauma inquiry in family planning sessions. Adverse Childhood Experiences (ACEs) and traumatic experiences, such as intimate partner violence (IPV), impact health outcomes of people seeking family planning services. IPV and sexual assault are more common among people with sexually transmitted infections and people seeking abortion care, yet trauma is not routinely discussed in family planning settings. Clinical cases will be used to demonstrate how the Trauma and Resilience-informed Inquiry for Adversity, Distress, and Strengths (TRIADS) framework can help establish a foundation of empathy, respect, and compassion and thereby improve engagement in care and health outcomes in individuals seeking family planning services.
Learning Objectives
- Identify common forms of trauma experienced by individuals receiving family planning care
- Describe the TRIADS framework
- Apply the TRIADS framework to family planning cases
- Develop approaches to trauma-informed family planning care
Professional Credit
- This activity provides the following types of credit: AMA, AAPA, APA, ANCC, ASWB, ABIM-MOC, ABP-MOC.
- 1.0 credits are available.
- Activity document
Featuring
Kelsey Loeliger, MD, PhD, is a Complex Family Planning Fellow at the University of California, San Diego. Her goals in research and advocacy include addressing social drivers of health and the overlap between reproductive injustice, gender-diverse health care, substance use disorders, incarceration, mental health, and interpersonal violence and trauma. In her current work, she seeks to better understand the impact of contraception use on gender dysphoria in gender-diverse individuals. She is originally from Baltimore, Maryland, and received her MD from the Yale School of Medicine and PhD from the Yale School of Public Health’s Department of Epidemiology. She graduated from Obstetrics and Gynecology residency at UCSF. Her PhD dissertation research used statewide databases to track and ultimately improve HIV treatment outcomes for incarcerated individuals after their release from prison or jail.
Megha Shankar, MD, is an Assistant Professor of Medicine at the University of California San Diego (UCSD). Her clinical and academic work focuses on promoting reproductive health equity. Through trauma-informed care and reproductive and racial justice, she is committed to addressing gender-based violence in diverse patient populations. She teaches formal courses on trauma-informed care and refugee health at the University of California San Diego School of Medicine. She serves patients in an academic primary care setting as well as people seeking asylum at the US-Mexico border. She is originally from the Chicagoland area, where she earned her undergraduate degree in Anthropology at the University of Chicago and medical degree at University of Illinois at Chicago College of Medicine. After her Internal Medicine Residency at the University of Washington, she completed a Health Services Research Fellowship at Stanford and the Palo Alto Veterans Affair.
Sara Johnson, MD leads efforts to advance trauma-informed care in reproductive health and translate the science of resilience and adversity into clinical practice and policy. Dr. Johnson serves as an advisor to UCAAN on training and strategy for reproductive health. A practicing obstetrician gynecologist at La Clinica de la Raza in Oakland, she led the organizations California ACEs Learning and Quality Improvement Collaborative (CALQIC) project, which implemented prenatal ACE screening, and with an ACEs Aware grant developed a supplemental training entitled ACE Screening and Trauma-Informed Care in Reproductive Health. She is the lead author of recent recommendations from the California Maternal Quality Care Collaborative, Addressing Adverse Childhood and Adult Experiences During Prenatal Care, published in the June 2023 edition of Obstetrics and Gynecology.