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Reflective Functioning Training on the Parent Development Interview

Length: 3 days
Location: Anna Freud Centre
Tutor(s): Michelle Sleed, Samantha Taylor and Kay Asquith
Start time: 09:30
End time: 17:00
Additional time information: Please arrive between 09:15-09:30 on the first day.
Pre-course preparation: Download Pre-course preparation

Parents being interviewed This three day course aims to provide an understanding of parental reflective functioning/mentalization and to become a reliable coder of RF of the Parent Development Interview. The course will give an brief introduction to Reflective Functioning and to the Parent Development Interview. Delegates will be shown how the RF coding system works. They will also use the manual to highlight all the categories of RF statements. The course will include homework which must be completed overnight and which will form the basis of discussion the next day.

Who is this course suitable for?

Allied professionals working in the area of child mental health and clinical research.

Aims of course

Delegates will learn how to assign the correct RF score to statements within the categories - ("Giving a single score"). They will also learn how to code a complete Parent Development Interview, showing in a practical way what to underline in the text of the interview and what to report on the coding sheet.

Links

More information about the PDI and other training courses with the author can be found here www.pditraininginstitute.com

The Coding Consortium offers services to researchers and clinicians in the coding of a variety of interview and video measures, focused primarily on attachment, interpersonal relationships and parenting. Please visit www.thecodingconsortium.com for more information.

Special Offer

We are offering a special rate for those who wish to book onto the RF-PDI training in August and the Reflective Functioning Training on the Pregnancy Interview, also in August. Fee will be £1000 reduced from £1100.