Global Nutrition Cluster 135d ago

This practitioner-oriented session will examine how maternal stress, trauma, and psychosocial distress affect breastfeeding, infant and young child feeding, caregiver–infant bonding, and infant mental health in humanitarian settings. Importantly, the webinar will highlight concrete suggestions, practical recommendations, and real-life solutions to help ensure that counselling and support services prevent and mitigate the adverse effects of stress and trauma, enabling women and their infants to continue successful breastfeeding and infant and young child feeding practices. Through realistic role-play scenarios from emergency contexts, participants will be engaged in trauma-informed counselling approaches, techniques, and language that can be immediately applied in their own programmes.