Events and Seminars
| Event | : | AIMH Clinical Workshop Series 2011 'Caregiving Orientations in Mothers and Fathers' |
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| Venue | : | The Tavistock Centre, 120 Belsize Lane, London NW3 5BA |
| Date | : | 29/10/2011 |
| Duration | : | 10.00 am - 3.00 pm |
| Extra Info | : | 'Caregiving Orientations in Mothers and Fathers' Led by Joan Raphael-Leff, Psychoanalyst; Social Psychologist; Leader, Teen-Parenting Project Convener, Academic Faculty for Psychoanalytic Research UCL/Anna Freud Centre, London, Visiting Prof. University of Essex, UK & Stellenbosch University, South Africa This visually-rich workshop aims to enhance emotional understanding of how expectations and beliefs affect care-practices not only among parents, but practitioners and foster care providers. In the second part of the workshop, a short Oscar-winning film will shockingly portray a young single mother's difficulties. This will provide the backdrop to a prolonged group discussion exploring the importance of fathers, the difficulties of parenting in complex sociocultural settings, and some of the adaptive transformations of care necessitated when traditional support systems fail. Approaches to caregiving differ among parents, and sometimes, for each child in their care. Joan Raphael-Leff will delineate four caregiving orientations, revealing the subjective configurations underpinning different antenatal experiences and patterns of parental care, and the effects of combinations of maternal and paternal orientations during the formative years. Parental disturbance and relationship conflict during the perinatal period are known to be associated with adverse effects on child outcomes. The workshop will focus on specific precipitants of anxiety, depression and/or persecution each parental orientation. £45.00 for members (members can also attend this workshop using our 'double workshop' offer of £80 to include Amanda Jones workshop on 10 December 2011, contact info@aimh.co.uk for details) £70.00 for non-members (includes one year's membership to AIMH UK, subject to eligibility) Places are limited as always so early application is recommended. For an Application Form please contact info@aimh.org.uk |
| Organised By | : | AIMH (UK): Association for Infant Mental Health |