Speaking the unspeakable, Stopping the unstoppable – obstetric violence and birth trauma

• Consider the variant issues related to the naming and voicing of obstetric violence;
• Consider the variant causes of birth trauma
• Consider the variant impacts and consequences of obstetric violence and birth trauma
• Consider the possible options and strategies for stopping obstetric violence and birth trauma as preventable harms

Dr. Heather Mattner

Dr. Heather Mattner is a Perinatal Health Psychologist and Midwife with an extensive background in maternal/infant health care, midwifery practice, research and education, models of practice development and review, perinatal mental health and wellbeing, perinatal Aboriginal health and wellbeing and primary health care. Heather has worked and lived in urban, regional, rural and remote settings across Australia and in New Guinea, Nepal and Swaziland holding university, government, non-government, private sector and consultancy roles. Heather is an Adjunct Associate Professor and an Honorary Clinical Senior Lecturer in the School of Psychology at The University of Adelaide. Heather has a private practice in Perinatal Psychology in the Adelaide Hills of South Australia where she sees 80 to 90 clients a month from across Australia many of whom have experienced perinatal trauma. Heather is intensely committed to achieving the prevention of birth/perinatal trauma and is also involved in presenting workshops across Australia with a consumer advocate and human rights lawyer educating maternity care professionals on Better Birth With Consent. Heather has led the writing of a guideline for the prevention of birth trauma published by the Maternity Consumer Network of Australia.

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