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Pregnancy Loss

Working with Parents who have Experienced Pregnancy Loss

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August 11, 2025, 1:00 - 3:00pm CST
Virtual via Zoom
Fee: $10 full members; $25 partial members and nonmembers
Continuing Education Hours: 2.0
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Course Description

This training session will be focusing on working with Parents who have Experienced Pregnancy Loss. The presentation draws from research recognizing that pregnancy loss occurs more often than many think. Statistically it occurs one out of every four pregnancies. This number is very high, and yet due to continued stigma and lack of awareness in our society around issues of reproductive health and prenatal complications, many parents feel isolated and unsure of how to cope when they experience a pregnancy loss. This presentation will review statistics around how often this occurs as well as what we can do as mental health professionals to support this population. The material will be presented through google slides and several additional resources will be provided.

Learning objectives:

  • Understand the prevalence of pregnancy loss and ways it can impact mental health.
  • Learn several ways we can address this type of specialized grief and provide support as well as tools to our clients who experience pregnancy loss.
  • Increase overall competence of working with this population as well as provide several resources that clinicians can use themselves as well as provide to their clients.

About the Trainer

Jilly Baures, Psy.D.

Jilly Baures, Psy.D.

Dr. Baures is a a licensed psychologist and has been practicing for 10 years since graduating in 2015 from her doctoral program at Adler University in Chicago. Dr. Baures is married and has three living children and three non living children. Two of her losses were miscarriages, and one was a stillborn. Since losing her stillborn two years ago, she has invested in professional training around pregnancy loss and reproductive trauma. Dr. Baures hopes to continue growing in this area and in her practice, as well as presenting on this topic to help other professionals work with this demographic.