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:

• 1. Participants will be able to define infant parent psychotherapy and several core concepts/terms associated with this approach.
  2. Participants will be able to describe effective infant-parent psychotherapy strategies for addressing current and historical trauma in caregivers.
  3. Participants will be able to consider possible infant-parent psychotherapy strategies for interrupting the transmission of trauma and adversity from caregiver to child.
  4.  Participants will be able to identify (from video and/or written vignette) common client (parent/child) defenses and possible appropriate strategies for effective intervention.
  5. Participants will be able to reflect on how they are using (or can use) this approach in their work with their own clients.
  6.  Participants will be able to reflect on the use of self in the psychotherapeutic process.
  7. Participants will be able to apply core concepts/terms associated with infant parent psychotherapy to case vignettes.
  8. 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.
  9. 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.
  10. 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.
  11. Participants will be able to reflect on the use of self in the psychotherapeutic process.
  12. 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