Events and Seminars
| Event | : | AIMH Clinical Workshop Series 2011/2012 |
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| Venue | : | The Tavistock Centre, 120 Belsize Lane, London NW3 5BA |
| Date | : | 10/12/2011 |
| Duration | : | 10.00 am - 3.00 pm |
| Extra Info | : | 'Complex Safeguarding Cases : A psychodynamic approach to assessing a parent's capacity to respond to help, or not'. This workshop continues to consider the challenges practitioners and clinicians face when working with parents who are considered to be at risk of harming their babies due to current parental psychiatric illness and/or predisposing defensive personality traits that impede rewarding interpersonal relationships, especially with the new baby. A parent's history, inevitably, influences his or her wish, or capacity, to tentatively or ardently latch on to the offer of help, or to refuse it. As this is such a complex subject, Amanda and AIMH are committed to giving an annual workshop to facilitate ongoing thinking about this very difficult and painful dimension of perinatal practice. Led by Amanda Jones, Consultant Perinatal Psychotherapist and head of North East London NHS's tier 3 Perinatal Parent Infant Mental Health Service. Amanda's doctoral research with the Tavistock/UEL explored how mothers' with early histories of trauma could use a psychodynamic intervention to prevent repeating their problems with their own babies. Recently, in partnership with the NSPCC and Warwick Medical School, Amanda has developed 5 documentaries called 'Breakdown or Breakthrough: pregnancy, birth and the first 18 months of life'. These programmes, which will be available free online, hope to help a wide range of professionals deepen their understanding about the inherently paradoxical nature of the perinatal period: it can be a such a time of risk for parents and babies and yet, simultaneously, it is potentially a time of astonishing growth and change for a troubled parent if practitioners and clinicians can assess and intervene accurately. Amanda was previously involved with the Channel 4 documentaries 'Help me Love my Baby' which won the 2007 Royal Television Society Award for Best Factual Programmes. She presents nationally and internationally on the subject. 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 |