A Training Workshop. Using Groups to Strengthen Parent-Infants Relationships: 'Claiming the Baby' in the Group

Price: £300.00

Tutors:

Jessica James, consultant parent-infant psychotherapist and group analyst working in the Parent Infant Project at the Anna Freud Centre

Sheila Ritchie, perinatal psychotherapist and group analyst in the Perinatal Parent-Infant Mental Health Service, North East London Foundation Trust.  The workshop is a joint venture between these services.

Course length: 2 Days

Start time: 10:00

Finish time: 04:30

In recent years there has been enthusiasm amongst professionals to offer parent and infant groups for help with early emotional and attachment difficulties.  In practice leadership of these groups requires understanding of group processes and training in skills to engage infants equally as participants.

Who is this course suitable for?

Professionals working with infants and their families who want to extend their skills in groups. This might include health visitors, children's centre workers, baby massage teachers, psychologists, individual and group psychotherapists. The course is also suitable for particpants who have completed the Anna Freud Centre module and introductory courses in parent infant work.

Aims of course

This two day workshop aims to develop group thinking and practice to produce leaders able to sustain successful parent and infant groups. There will be a focus upon ways of creating a group environment which maximises the potential for infant centred interactions. The teaching will draw upon models from parent-infant psychotherapy and group analysis. These will be adapted in relation to techniques and professional roles in different group settings.

We shall consider how to build and sustain a group culture that facilitates relating between all group members. We shall introduce techniques for working directly with individual parent and baby dyads, assessing for groups, working more informally with drop-in and activity based groups, engaging families most at risk and responding to difficult situations in both planning and ongoing group situations. The course will include teaching, use of video material, small groups and experiential work. There will be opportunities for participants to discuss their relationship to the issues, practice new techniques and consider their own parent-infant group work.

Availability

  1. 19/11/2010–20/11/2010 Book now - Spaces available

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