Focus I: Education and Training
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Invited Facilitator, Pine Integrative Health Centre, Edmonton, Alberta. Maternal Mental Health: A Primer for Health Care Professionals, 3 hour workshop July 18, 2019.
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Canadian Counselling and Psychotherapy Association (CCPA), Approved Webinar for Continuing Education Credits Serving Clients with Perinatal Mood and Anxiety Disorders: Do No Harm forthcoming.
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Director of Facebook Page: November, 2017 – Ongoing (1,030 members currently) https://www.facebook.com/maternalmentalhealthprogressinCanada/notifications/
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Postpartum Support International (PSI), Justice and Advocacy Committee (member, Canadian representative) (June 2018– 2020)
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International Marce Society for Perinatal Mental Health, Canadian member of the Reproductive Mental Health Special Interest Group (2021-ongoing)
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Infanticide and Filicide: Foundations in Maternal Mental Health Forensics, co-edited guidebook for lawyers, expert witnesses, and perinatal psychologists/psychiatrists accepted for publication by the American Psychiatric Association (Wong & Parnham, 2020).
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Initiating formalization of the Postpartum Support International Canada (2018- Ongoing). Launched May 2022.
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Clinical Supervision of Ph.D. & MC Counselling Psychology student specializing inreproductive and maternal mental health (September 2018 – April ongoing).
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The Baby Box: Developed 24 video presentations (English and translated into Spanish, Arabic) on Postpartum Mental Health for the Baby Box University as part of regular curriculum, January, 2017
Focus II: Scholarship, Research, and Funding
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Athabasca University Maternal Mental Health Progress in Canada: Research and Advocacy Working Group (RAW), Director, January 2018 - Ongoing (15 members).
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Received 2018 -2019 Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada, Explore Grant: Becoming a Perinatal/Maternal mental health expert witness: Lived experiences of novice and veteran experts in filicide and infanticide court cases in Canada and the United States.
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GCAP Thesis student supervision on topics related to reproductive and postpartum mood and anxiety disorders.
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Committee member or external examiner for graduate student thesis or dissertation research on topics related to reproductive and perinatal mood and anxiety disorders at various Canadian universities.
Focus III: Advocacy and Leadership
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Global Initiative: Declaration on the Media Treatment of Filicide Case in Godella, Spain
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Contributing to manifesto outlining structural inequities and women's rights in media representation. Representing Maternal Mental Health in Canada, along with the European Institute of Perinatal Mental Health, Maternal Mental Health Alliance UK, and Action on Postpartum Psychosis. Signatures will be added from maternal mental health organizations around the world (May 2019 - Ongoing)
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College of Alberta Psychologist (CAP) and the Psychologists' Association of Alberta (PAA), Annual General Meeting and Professional Development Day: Invited Enlightened Speaker for Leadership in Maternal Mental Health, September 21, 2019, Edmonton, Alberta
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Vice-President of the Postpartum Support International Canada (2021-ongoing)
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Co-Founder with Claire Kerr-Zlobin, Director of Life with A Baby (Ontario) the Perinatal Mental Health Coalition Canada, a grassroots working group advocating for a Perinatal Mental Health National Strategy. Involved in Bell Let’s Talk Perinatal Mood and Anxiety Disorders and World Maternal Mental Health Day. November, 2017 - Ongoing.
Focus IV: Service Delivery
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Expert Witness conducting psychological assessments for mothers who have taken the life of their child(ren), maternal infanticide/filicide cases.
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Forensic Psychology, mentorship in general forensic assessment and consultation, Dr. Liam Ennis with the Forensic Behavioural Science Group, (Sept. 2020 - Sept. 2021).
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Alberta Co-Coordinator, Postpartum Support International, (2008- Present).
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Counselling Services, limited counselling services specializing in Perinatal Mood and Anxiety Disorders (PMAD) (2004 – ongoing).
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The Baby Box: Developed 24 video presentations (English and translated into Spanish, Arabic) on Postpartum Mental Health for the Baby Box University as part of regular curriculum, January, 2017.
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Parent-infant psychotherapy; trauma-based attachment counselling (offered in January 2021).
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