AiMH UK National Conference 2022 - Transforming Parent-Infant Relationships

Our missionis to promote understanding of why infant mental health is important, and to support the professional development of all practitioners working with parents, infants and toddlers.AiMH UK is an interdisciplinary, not-for-profit organization, promoting understanding about infant mental health (IMH).  AiMH’s primary function is to support the UK community of infant mental health practitioners to come together and learn from each other and to contribute to the raising of standards of IMH practice. We are a membership organisation for all practitioners (including midwives, health visitors, psychotherapists, psychiatrists, psychologists, paediatricians, early years workers, nursery nurses, baby room leaders)AiMH UK website

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The annual conference for AiMH UK created to enhance  your work with infants and their parents.

This conference has been created to enhance your work with infants and their parents, with talks by professionals across the spectrum of Infant mental health specialties. They will bring not only their wealth of experience, but something for everyone to take away, whether that is a different way of thinking about babies, or skills, ideas and approaches to working with infants and their parents.Programme of the day9.15am - 9.30am: Welcome - Jane Barlow - AiMH UK President9.30am - 10.30am: Betty Hutchon - The NBO in Practise: Transforming Parent-Infant Relationships in Early Infancy Betty is Head of Paediatric Occupational Therapy at the Royal Free Hospital London NHS Trust. Betty trained in the NBO (Newborn Behavioural Observation) with its originator, Terry Brazelton and is Master Trainer &amp; Co-Founder of the Brazelton Centre, UK. Betty has spent decades teaching this technique, which was designed to help practitioners sensitise parents to their infant’s unique competencies and vulnerabilities and therefore understand and respond in a way that meets their infant&#x27;s developmental needs, contributing to the development of a positive parent-infant relationship from the very beginning. In this session and through video material, Betty will explain and demonstrate how the NBO is being used in both universal (health visiting) and specialist settings (neonatal units) in the UK, to support parent-infant relationships and, in the process, to promote communication between clinicians and parents.10.30am - 10.45am: Coffee break (15 minutes)10.45am - 11.30am: Mary Short - From Rejection to Recognition: Parent Infant Psychotherapy with a &#x27;replacement baby.&#x27;  Mary is a Psychoanalytic Parent Infant Psychotherapist and a Child &amp; Adolescent Psychiatrist in the NHS in Northern Ireland. She is winner of the Louise Emanual Essay Prize 2021 for her clinical paper on parent-infant psychotherapy with a ‘replacement’ baby -  a baby born into the void and unbearable grief which follows a loss, often, of another baby or child. Mary will describe her work with a mother and baby girl, who had begun her life in the shadow of her dead brother, who had been born with severe disabilities and to whom her mother had been completely devoted. In this moving piece of work, Mary will demonstrate how she placed the infant girl’s emotional experiences at the centre of the work, to support the recognition and formation of the baby’s identity. 11.30am - 12.30pm: Katy Taylor &amp; Clare Beckell - The Rockabye Program: Nurturing Parent Infant Connection through Sensory Play &amp; Song  Katy and Clare are Co-Directors and Therapists at the Rockabye Program in Bristol, a support program for parents who may be suffering post-natally or having difficulties in bonding with their baby. The Rockabye program runs for 10-12 weeks in Children’s Centres across Bristol, for parents and their pre-crawling babies. Parents are supported to share their experiences with other parents and to nurture their relationship with their baby through singing and sensory play. Katy and Clare will share their therapeutic approach and some of the structured activities they use with parents and infants to give parents time to focus on their baby, have fun and nourish their connection.12.30pm - 1.00pm: Lunch break (20 minutes)1.00pm - 1.30pm Dr Jane BarlowLaunch of the AiMH UK Awards, Bursaries and latest updates on AiMH UK 1.30pm - 2.30pmNicola Canale &amp; Rebecca Stewart - In the Heart of the Community: Transforming Parent Infant Relationships through use of Video within a Home Visiting Programme Nicola and Rebecca will present the work that Cardiff Parents Plus are doing, a psychology-led service that provides targeted, personalised, psychology-informed interventions, to parents and children aged 0-4 years old within the family home. The team is based in a Local Authority setting as part of Cardiff Parenting Services. It consists of Educational Psychologists and Early Years Parenting Practitioners. This talk will: Describe the process of undertaking a whole team approach to using Video Interaction Guidance within a Personalised, Psychology Informed, Home-Based Intervention. Illustrate the transformation of the Parent-Infant relationship through a series of short case studies and video examples. Hear the voices and experiences of both practitioner and parents who took part in this process. Reflect on the Strength, Weaknesses, Opportunities, and Threats to undertaking such a project. The presentation will end with some reflections on how bringing video work into the heart of people’s homes can break down some of the barriers typically associated with accessing this type of intervention. 2.30pm - 3.30pm Alison Steier - The Essence of Transformation: The FAN method, Facilitating Attuned InteractionThe ultimate goal of FAN is to strengthen the &#x27;provider-parent&#x27; relationship through attunement, empathy and capacity-building. The attuned approach of FAN increases safety and reduces anxiety in parents who may be struggling and hard to reach. The process of attunement is modelled by the practitioner and experienced by the parent. In turn, parents are better able to respond to the needs of their infants. Whilst created for Erikson&#x27;s Fussy Baby Network, FAN can also be applied to parenting of older children and can be used as a framework for team building and supervision. Alison will talk us through the FAN model and its application, particularly when supporting a parent may be easier said than done.3.30pm: Close of Conference<a href="https://aimh.uk/wp-content/uploads/2022/10/AIMH-UK-National-Conference-Nov-2022-5.pdf" target="_blank" data-msys-clicktrack="0" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer">Download the Full programme with Speaker Bios</a>Due to the sentive nature of some of the presentations this event will not be recorded

<a href="https://aimh.uk" target="_blank" data-msys-clicktrack="0" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer">Join AiMH UK</a>, receive a wealth of resources and get your National Conference ticket at the reduced priceAccess to all professional resources on the AiMH UK website including the AiMH UK Best Practice Guides and the 'Getting to Know Your Baby' Videos.Free Admission to AiMH UK Skills Box sessionsDiscounts to AiMH UK National ConferencesMembership of the practitioners local networking hubFree admission to all online CPD events run by AiMH UK HubsAccess to the AiMH UK community through Mighty Networks; an App based platform available online and on mobile phonesQuarterly copies of the International Journal of Birth and Parenting Education (IJBPE ) and access to an archive of past issues (this would normally cost £25Regular newsletters with AiMH UK events, resources, and Infant Mental Health newsUpdates on the latest Research in Infant Mental Health with downloadable articles, and reportsClinical papers collated thematically by Robin Balbernie (AiMH UK trustee) Access to the Infant Mental Health CPD System (IMH CPDS) with which to generate an IMH CPD Portfolio and gain registration to the UK Infant Mental Health Recognition Register (IMHRR).

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