Seminar: Infant Disability. Infant Mental Health. Two separate worlds?
London, UK. Wednesday 9th November, 2011.
Friends Meeting House, 173 Euston Road, London, UK, NW1 2BJ.
9.45 a.m. to 12 midday. (Refreshments from 9.15.)
The venue is just over the road from Euston Station. (For venue, visit: www.friendshouse.co.uk. E-mail: mailto: This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.. Tel: 020 7663 1000)
Coffee and tea will be available before the seminar.
Lunch is not provided but the venue has a café and Euston station (just across the road) has numerous shops, cafes, food outlets and bars.
There will be time and space after the seminar for people who want to continue their discussions and share materials
Costs: £75.00
Paired place: If a practitioner can bring with them a parent who uses, or has used, their service, the cost of the paired place will be £100.
Please note: These costs do not include overnight accommodation.
Facilitator: Peter Limbrick – the originator of the TAC model in early childhood intervention / early support and author of several books on the TAC theme.[1]
The seminar will have an informal presentation followed by plenary and/or small group discussions. There will be a display of relevant material and delegates are invited to bring their own materials and resources to share.
The Seminar discussion
It can seem that there is little overlap between these two worlds and these two groups of practitioners. How much knowledge do infant disability practitioners have of infant mental health issues? How much do infant mental health practitioners know about disability?
This seminar will pick up the concern that too many separate practitioners and too many programmes might undermine a vulnerable infant's emotional, social and psychological wellbeing by making too many demands and facing him or her with too many people to relate to. Peter will suggest that multiple practitioners too early in the infant's life might actually spoil the mother and infant's process of becoming attached to each other.
The aim of this session is to explore the bridges that already exist between the two worlds, to discuss strategies for making more links between them, to develop first ideas for evaluating an infant's readiness for multiple practitioners, and to explore what infant disability practitioner can do to promote attachment and protect infants' mental health.
It is intended for this seminar to be co-facilitated by someone from the world of infant mental health. It will be relevant to practitioners and managers in statutory, voluntary and private agencies involved in infant disability and/or infant mental health - in any country.
It is our intention to present this seminar as advertised here, but we reserve the right to alter the programme as necessary
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This Seminar is the third in a set of four seminars over a two day period on the theme of Team Around the Child (TAC). Each seminar can be booked separately. To see the two-day programme click here.
Interconnections
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[1] For a list of publications please visit http://www.teamaroundthechild.com/bookshop.html
