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Introduction to
Infant Mental Health
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This two-hour training introduces the
role and function of the infant mental health specialist and the use
of relationship and reflection in work with families. Participants
will reflect on their own careers and be challenged to determine how
they can further define their roles with families.
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Training topics include:
- What is infant mental health
- The field of infant mental health
- Being an infant mental health
specialist
- Listening toward understanding: a
cornerstone of working with infants and parents
- Collaborations in infant mental
health work
- Group care of infants and toddlers
- Relationship and reflection in
infant mental health work
- Observation of infants
Participants will learn:
- Key aspects of infant mental health
- The theoretical and clinical
underpinnings of infant mental health practice
- The categories of service an infant
mental health specialist might provide
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Ways in which collaboration is
used in infant mental health work
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Strategies for actively
acknowledging and taking into account the influence of culture in
our perceptions and work and in the responses of our coworkers and
the families we serve
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Characteristics of good quality
group child care
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Features of relationship-based
work with infants and their families
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What reflective supervision is
and why it is helpful in work with infants and families
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Just a note of
thanks for sending Michelle [Fallon] our way. She was wonderful!!! She
did a beautiful job of illustrating the complexity of infant mental
health and the importance of being there for parents and kids that are
struggling. She conveyed a strong message of maintaining hope,
developing resiliency, and promoting family strengths. It was
fantastic! She is a very talented professional and her passion for
families was evident.
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training participant ~ |
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