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Registration is OPEN, there are only a couple seats left! An Introduction to Infant Mental Health Theory and Practice for Home Visitors IMH 3-Day Training This training provides Infant Mental Health Home Visiting professionals the opportunity to share and learn about their work through video, group discussion, and clinical observations. participants will consider new ways of working with infants, toddlers, and families that support parent infant relationships. An overview of Infant Mental Health theory, attachment, strategies, assessment, and interventions will…

Registration is OPEN! 2020 Conference: Explorations in Development The Intersection of Sensory Processing Disorders & Infant/Early Childhood Mental Health Sensation is the raw material mediating the formation of the earliest relationships, contributing to the regulation of emotion and behavior and the construction of knowledge-all key components of Infant Mental Health. The manner in which children register, process and interpret sensation, contributes significantly to how they perceive and appraise reality and consequently how they are apt to behave. If a child’s…

Registration is OPEN Resilience and Risk in Early Development: An Infant Mental Health ‘Back to Basics’ Series Part I:  Early Attachment:  The Psychological Worlds of Infants and their Caregivers Attachment theory is foundational to the field of Infant Mental Health.  Infants rely on their caregivers to provide a secure base and a safe haven.  When things go well, infants grow, develop and thrive within safe and supportive relationships with their caregivers.  Understanding the normative development of the attachment system and…

Registration is OPEN Resilience and Risk in Early Development: An Infant Mental Health ‘Back to Basics’ Series Part II:  Trauma & Toxic Stress:  Effects on Parenting and Early Child Development Trauma and toxic stress interfere with adaptive parenting and healthy early child development.  This workshop will describe the social, psychological, behavioral and neurobiological effects of trauma on parents and on infants and very young children.  Understanding the way trauma manifests in young children and their parents can help us provide…