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Preparing to Parent: The Psychological Worlds of Expectant Mothers and Fathers

Co-sponsored by MI-AIMH and the IMH Statewide Committee, this training will review the psychosocial processes that mothers and fathers experience as they prepare to parent a new baby. Data from ongoing research with expectant mothers and fathers will be presented and existing empirically supported IMH interventions with mothers and fathers will be reviewed. Attachment and ecological theories that inform our understanding of adjustment during the perinatal period will be discussed, with an emphasis on pregnancy and early parenting in contexts of risk. Case material will illustrate central concepts in this area of study. Workshop participants will gain an understanding of normative relationships and relationship processes marked by disturbances and perturbations that manifest in the perinatal period and clinical techniques that can be employed to address relationship difficulties.

Accommodations: Hotel accommodations are provided through The Comfort in at Mt. Pleasant, for a reduced rate of $91.00 a night. A morning breakfast of bagels and yogurt and afternoon salad bar for lunch will be provided.

Registration: $80.00 for non-members, $65.00 for MI-AIMH, and $35 for students.

Presenters: Carolyn Dayton, PhD, LMSW, IMH-E®(IV) and Carla Barron, MSW, IMH-E®(IV)

CEU’s: Approved for 5.5 Michigan SW CEU’s and will also count toward the requirements for the MI-AIMH endorsement. 

Statewide Meetings Include important news and updates from MDCH and MI-AIMH, a resource table, and a networking opportunity. 

Questions or comments, contact Jan Proudfoot @ (231) 533-8619, jproudfoot@norcocmh.org

Note:  *Agency checks should be made payable to MI-AIMH. Please indicate the names of all  staff  attending the training.

Mail to:  MI-AIMH, ATTN: Deborah Kahraman, 13101 Allen Road, Southgate, MI 48195

Email : dkahraman@mi-aimh.org, Phone: 734-785-7705, Ext. 7194, Fax: 734-287-1680