Introduction to Parent-Infant Psychotherapy

'An Introduction to Parent-Infant Psychotherapy’ is a once-a-week, 8-week training course that provides mental health professionals with an introduction to infant and perinatal mental health theory. It examines critical aspects of perinatal and infant mental health including the parent-infant relationship, attachment theory, and infant development. The course includes learning to observe interactions between caregivers and infants and explores the earliest precursors of disordered attachment. Finally, it provides an introduction to the process of parent-infant psychotherapeutic intervention through working with the relationship between mothers, fathers, and their infants.

This course is for mental health professionals (psychologists, psychiatrists, clinical social workers) wanting to provide therapeutic services to infants and parents.

Course dates:

27 January 2023

3 February 2023

10 February 2023

17 February 2023

24 February 2023

3 March 2023

10 March 2023

17 March 2023