Registration is currently closed. If you are interested in attending as a walk-in, please email Tiffanie at tmartinez@mi-aimh.org
Detroit Wayne Mental Health Authority and MI-AIMH –
Early Childhood Learning Series
Infant Parent Psychotherapy
This two-day training will specifically examine how IMH clinicians can use relationship-focused strategies to help caregivers remember, experience, regulate and tolerate memories and feelings in order to facilitate the creation of new meanings and hope in current parent-child relationships. Particular focus will be given to video-tape intervention and using that as a relationship-focused strategy.
Dates: Monday, June 3 & Tuesday, June 4, 2019 (this is a two-day training)
Time: 9:00 AM – 4:00 PM
Registration begins at: 8:30 AM
Location: The Guidance Center, Center For Excellence, 13111 Allen Rd., Southgate, MI 48195
Presenter: Karen Smith, LMSW, IMH-E®
Learning Objectives:
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- Participants will be able to define infant parent psychotherapy and several core concepts/terms associated with this approach.
- Participants will be able to describe effective infant-parent psychotherapy strategies for addressing current and historical trauma in caregivers.
- Participants will be able to consider possible infant-parent psychotherapy strategies for interrupting the transmission of trauma and adversity from caregiver to child.
- Participants will be able to identify (from video and/or written vignette) common client (parent/child) defenses and possible appropriate strategies for effective intervention.
- Participants will be able to reflect on how they are using (or can use) this approach in their work with their own clients.
- Participants will be able to reflect on the use of self in the psychotherapeutic process.
- Participants will be able to apply core concepts/terms associated with infant parent psychotherapy to case vignettes.
- Participants will be able to generate effective infant-parent psychotherapy strategies for addressing current and historical trauma in caregivers in response to case vignettes presented.
- Participants will be able to identify strategies for interrupting the transmission of trauma and adversity from caregiver to child in response to case vignettes presented.
- Participants will be able to reflect on how they are using (or can use) infant parent psychotherapy strategies in their work with their own clients.
- Participants will be able to reflect on the use of self in the psychotherapeutic process.
- Participants will be able to describe the critical roles of reflective supervision and attention to parallel process in parent-infant psychotherapy.
Continuing Education Information – 11.0 training hours:
Social Work – Approved for 11.0 Michigan SW CEU’s
IMH Endorsement® – Will count towards the requirements for the MI-AIMH Endorsement®
NEW! Licensed Professional Counselors – NBCC Hours – Michigan Association for Infant Mental Health (MI-AIMH) has been approved by NBCC as an Approved Continuing Education Provider, ACEP No.6867. Programs that do not qualify for NBCC credit are clearly identified. MI-AIMH is solely responsible for all aspects of the programs.
Key MI-AIMH Competencies addressed include:
Parent-Infant/Young Child Relationship-based Therapies & Practices; Attachment, Separation, Trauma & Loss; Relationship-focused, therapeutic practice; Family relationships and dynamics; Psychotherapeutic & behavioral theories of change; Self Awareness; Parallel Process; Professional/Personal Development; Building & Maintaining Relationships; Observation & Listening; Emotional Response
Registration:
This training is sponsored generously by the Detroit Wayne Mental Health Authority (DWMHA). Therefore, training attendees need to be employed by a Detroit Wayne Infant Mental Health program and a coupon code is required to register. If you work outside of Detroit-Wayne County and are interested in the training topic, please contact Tiffanie Martinez tmartinez@mi-aimh.org, MI-AIMH Communications and Training Specialist, about the possibility of bringing this trainer to your area.
Registration deadlines:
-Priority registration for Detroit Wayne Infant Mental Health program professionals ends May 23rd
-Registration will be open for other early childhood professionals within Detroit Wayne County from May 23 – 29, 2019
-Registration for everyone will close May 29, 2019
For registration questions, contact Tiffanie Martinez at: tmartinez@mi-aimh.org or 734-785-7705, Ext. 7617