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Principles and Practice of Psychoanalytic Parent-Infant Psychotherapy

Length: 3.5 days
Location: Anna Freud Centre
Tutor(s): Tessa Baradon, Carol Broughton, Judith Woodhead, Angela Joyce, Michelle Sleed and Jessica James
Start time: 09:15
End time: 17:30
Additional time information: The first day of the course is afternoon only, and will begin at 13.00. The last day will finish at the slightly earlier time of 16.30

Dad and baby The training is based on the therapeutic model developed by The Anna Freud Centre Parent Infant Project, as described in their book The Practice of Psychoanalytic Parent-Infant Psychotherapy: Claiming the Baby (Routledge, London 2005)

Who is this course suitable for?

Professionals working with infants and their parents who are interested in developing specialist therapeutic skills in this area – child psychotherapists, psychiatrists, psychologists, therapists, social workers, psychiatric nurses and allied professions.

Aims of course

The aim of this three and a half day course is to extend the understanding and skills particular to therapeutically-based, early intervention with attachment disorders. The course will examine the complexity of the work. It does not offer a qualification in parent-infant psychotherapy.

Programme

Each training day will include seminars and technique-based discussions, anchored in clinical video material.
The following topics will be addressed:
• Theory and principles of psychoanalytic parent-infant psychotherapy
• Engaging the family in parent-infant psychotherapy
• Baby, parent/s and therapist – the therapeutic encounter
• The process of ending in parent-infant psychotherapy
• Working with ‘hard to reach’ high risk populations
• Therapeutic mother baby groups