AiMH UK National Conference 2023

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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Supporting Moments That Matter:  Nurturing Parent Baby Relationships

<h3>Early Bird tickets now available until Friday 27th October</h3><h3>Members: £25 Non-Members: £45 (plus booking fees)</h3><h3>(Normal price tickets from October 28th: Members £35 Non-Members £55)</h3><p><strong>If you have an organisation / team or centre you would like to purchase tickets for please contact Lin Carruthers @ info@aimh.uk</strong></p><h3>Conference Programme</h3><p><strong>9:30 to 9:40 Jane Barlow – Welcome</strong></p><p><strong>9:40 to 10:30 Debbie Brace &amp; Rebecca Leuw, Reach Foundation, London</strong></p><p><strong>Introducing a Relationship-Based Approach to Working with Babies and Their Families.</strong></p><p>Debbie and Rebecca will be asking “What does it mean to keep relationships at the centre of a parent-infant service? What does this actually look and sound like in practice?” They will illustrate their approach drawing on their group sessions with babies and families. This approach is also applicable to work with parents and infants in all settings. Debbie and Rebecca have created a universal model in Feltham, Greater London, which aims to increase the amount of emotionally connected moments between parents and their babies. This work is now to be scaled up across the borough and has been commissioned by the Hounslow Family Hubs. They will be conveying the essence of this ‘relationship centred approach’ demonstrating how getting the relational details right really matters and how these details are integral to developing a successful infant mental health service. </p><p><strong>10:30 to 11:30 Mariam Malik, LEAP Project, London</strong></p><p><strong>Now We’re Talking: Scaffolding Parent Baby Interactions and Language Development</strong></p><p>Mariam is a Highly Specialist Speech and Language Therapist for the LEAP (Learn Language, Empower, Aspire &amp; Play) Project in Enfield, London. She will discuss how all practitioners working with parents and babies can support and create the conditions necessary for optimal early language development and why this is significant. Mariam has a special interest in equitable practice and will explore how speech and language therapy can be used to counter social disadvantage.</p><p><strong>11:30 to 11:45 Coffee Break</strong></p><p> </p><p><strong>11:45 to 12:30 Hannah Swan &amp; Jessica Thomas, Little Minds Matter Team, Bradford</strong></p><p><strong>Moments That Matter: using everyday moments to promote connection.</strong></p><p>The Little Minds Matter Team (Bradford’s Infant Mental Health Service) will talk about their work with parents and babies in the Bradford community, which focusses on using everyday moments to promote connection. They will share a community-based video that was co-created with local parents/ carers, capturing simple, fun and soothing parent-baby interactions, which don’t take long and don’t cost anything, but whose cumulative impact can last a lifetime. They will share some examples of their work with parents/ carers and babies to illustrate the powerful impact of moments of connection.</p><p> </p><p><strong>12:30 to 13:15 Pauline Lee, Tameside and Glossop Early Attachment Service</strong></p><p><strong>Cradling the Parent’s Past and the Baby’s Future: Exploring Therapeutic Challenges</strong></p><p>Pauline will describe how, when working therapeutically with parents and babies, there is often more than one baby in the room. Through case material, Pauline will demonstrate how we need to be attuned and sensitive to the parent’s own baby self and their adult needs as well as the needs of the baby, and their relationship. Additionally, it is also important we pay attention to our own selves; our own infantile feelings and thoughts that will emerge in the room. Pauline will present two psychotherapeutic cases (antenatal and postnatal) highlighting the different infant voices that come into sessions, and the challenge of how to talk to the parent and baby about them. Who do you attend to first, when it can seem both parent and baby need help at the same time. </p><p><strong>13:15 to 14:00 Lunch Break</strong></p><p> </p><p><strong>14:00 to 15:00 Professor Mary Dozier.</strong></p><p><strong>As simple as ABC: how practitioners can use ‘in the moment’ feedback to promote safe, enjoyable and nurturing parent-baby relationships.</strong></p><p>ABC (Attachment and Biobehavioural Catch-Up) is an attachment-focussed approach which supports parents to stay emotionally and physically available to their infants. The ABC approach is brief and strengths-based and designed to build parenting confidence. It has been developed and refined over 30 years in Mary’s lab at the University of Delaware, USA. Mary will describe how the ABC has been developed and how it is put into practice. Videos of parents and infants will be used to illustrate the approach. Mary will also demonstrate the remarkable evidence-base for the ABC, which enhances parental sensitivity and demonstrates positive outcomes for babies, which are sustained through early childhood and into adolescence.</p><p><strong>15:00 to 15:30 Kerry Taylor and Dr Bea Birtwell, BrightPIP, Brighton.</strong></p><p><strong>Evidence Based Intervention with Parents &amp; Babies: Adapting the ABC to UK Culture</strong></p><p>ABC (Attachment &amp; Biobehavioural Catch-Up) is widely used in the USA to support families where there have been difficulties in early attachment. BrightPIP is the first organisation in the UK to train in the ABC approach. We are delighted that Kerry and Bea will be talking to us about their experience of introducing the ABC approach in the UK. They will describe the successful adjustments they have made to fit the approach with UK culture and the next steps in UK wide dissemination.</p><h3><a href="https://aimh.uk/wp-content/uploads/2023/10/AiMH-UK-National-Conference-2023-Programme-Final.pdf" target="_blank" data-msys-clicktrack="0" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer">Download the Conference Programme</a></h3><h3><a href="https://aimh.uk" target="_blank" data-msys-clicktrack="0" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer">Visit the AiMH UK Website</a></h3><h3>All attendees will receive a CPD Certificate - 4 hours CPD</h3><h3>Add to your IMH Portfolio on the <a href="https://imhcpd.aimh.uk" target="_blank" data-msys-clicktrack="0" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer">AiMH UK IMH CPd programme</a></h3>

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