TY - JOUR AU - Knapp, Caprice AU - Honikman, Simone AU - Wirsching, Michael AU - Husni-Pascha, Gidah AU - Hänselmann, Eva PY - 2018 DA - 2018/06/19 TI - Adapting a perinatal empathic training method from South Africa to Germany JO - Pilot and Feasibility Studies SP - 101 VL - 4 IS - 1 AB - Maternal mental health conditions are prevalent across the world. For women, the perinatal period is associated with increased rates of depression and anxiety. At the same time, there is widespread documentation of disrespectful care for women by maternity health staff. Improving the empathic engagement skills of maternity healthcare workers may enable them to respond to the mental health needs of their clients more effectively. In South Africa, a participatory empathic training method, the “Secret History” has been used as part of a national Department of Health training program with maternity staff and has showed promising results. For this paper, we aimed to describe an adaptation of the Secret History empathic training method from the South African to the German setting and to evaluate the adapted training. SN - 2055-5784 UR - https://doi.org/10.1186/s40814-018-0292-6 DO - 10.1186/s40814-018-0292-6 ID - Knapp2018 ER -