The recent ISPOG conference had a lot of research on perinatal PTSD, anxiety, and fear of childbirth, which made it a really stimulating conference for those of us working in this area. Every year it is difficult to decide which conferences to go to in order to find out more about perinatal PTSD and present our research. It was one of the reasons we set up the research network in 2005 – to facilitate discussion and exchange of ideas between researchers in this area. Similarly, coordinating efforts to attend the same conferences provides great opportunities to hear about each other’s research and discuss collaborations – as the ISPOG conference recently demonstrated.

 We have done some digging to see if we can help and have come up with a list conferences that are relevant to perinatal PTSD, or where we know people in the network are attending. This year, the Perinatal Mental Health conference in November looks particularly interesting, although the deadline for submissions has already passed. If you want to present your work to an international audience, the International Marce Society conference in 2014 is on Change in perinatal mental health so promises to be a good forum for our work.  If you know of other good conferences – especially if you are presenting perinatal PTSD research – please add them by clicking on the speech bubble.

2013 Conferences
Society for Reproductive and Infant Psychology, 17-18 September, UK
Australasian Marcé Conference, 11-12 October, Australia
Perinatal Mental Health Conference, 6-8 November, USA
International Society for Traumatic Stress Studies, 7-9 November, USA

2014 Conferences
North American Society for Psychosocial Obstetrics and Gynecology, 6-9 April 2014, USA
International Confederation of Midwives triennial conference, 2014, Prague
14th World Association for Infant Mental Health World Congress, July 2014, UK
International Marcé Society Biennial Scientific Meeting, 10-13 September 2014, UK
European Health Psychology Society conference, 2014, Austria

2015 Conferences to watch out for
6th World Congress on Women’s Mental Health, details to be announced
International Society for Psychosomatic Obstetrics and Gynaecology, Spain, details to be announced