Title:   INFANT’S BRAIN TO THE THERAPIST’S MIND: REFLECTING ONHOW BABIES TEACH US ABOUT THERAPY

Webinar Description:  In this provocative 2-hour interactive and video-based seminar, Dr. Neil Boris delves into key findings regarding developing our socio-emotional brains and establishes how research informs clinical work with parents. The talk begins with a review of creative research on how babies are hard-wired for social input and how caregivers optimally help regulate emotional states in young children. From there, Dr. Boris will focus on applying
the concept of “Being With” to clinical encounters with parents and other caregivers. From establishing an alliance to working through caregiving struggles, case-based examples demonstrate how clinicians can develop the capacity to "Be With" clients to support change through reflective dialogue.

Presenter: Neil W. Boris, M.D.
Neil is a member of the Leadership Team at Circle of Security International. This company has trained over 50,000 practitioners worldwide to promote secure attachment between caregivers and their children. In the 20+ years since graduating from his medical residency at Brown University in pediatrics, adult psychiatry, and child psychiatry, Neil has focused on high-risk children's social and emotional development—specializing in caring for those under five years of age. His research, for example, has ranged from studying early intervention programs serving high-risk families in the U.S. to capturing the impact of community-based programs for orphans in Rwanda and Malawi. His clinical work has been equally wide-ranging, from involvement with programs focused on young, maltreated children to children with life-threatening illnesses or those with substance-abusing parents.

Date: Date: September 10, 2024
Time: 11 am – 1 pm AK time
Costs: $45.00 for AK-AIMH members
           $60 for non-Members
           $0 for Behavioral Health Grantees.  This training is open at no cost to behavioral health professionals employed in the behavioral health department of an eligible nonprofit agency that bills Medicaid for services or receives grant funding from the Division of Behavioral Health.  Click here for a list of eligible agencies.

Register here:
https://www.eventbrite.com/e/infants-brain-to-the-therapists-mind-reflecting-on-how-babies-teach-us-tickets-946797977237?aff=oddtdtcreator

Title:  The Mindful & Reflective Parent: A toolkit for relationship-building & reflection in parent-child relationships

Webinar Description:
Join us for an engaging and dynamic two-part workshop, specifically designed for providers working with young children and their families. This interactive experience will introduce you to a foundational framework and essential tools for understanding and addressing attachment states of mind in parents—whether dismissive, preoccupied, or disorganized.

Through compelling audio and video vignettes, collaborative breakout sessions, and insightful large group discussions, you'll delve into challenging real-world scenarios. You’ll leave with practical strategies to enhance parental reflective capacity and fortify the security of parent-child relationships, empowering you to make a lasting impact in your work with families.

Presenter:  Diane Reynolds, LMFT
Diane is a trainer, consultant, coach, and facilitator dedicated to advancing trauma- and equity-informed reflective supervision and leadership.  She is currently engaged with the City of Long Beach Department of Health and Human Services to implement reflective supervision and leadership in support of their initiative to build a trauma-informed city.

Supporting the Reflective Supervision Collaborative in various roles since 2018, Diane has provided project management, virtual curriculum development, and design-build services for the RSC online training platform in anticipation of launching a scalable, accessible, virtual reflective supervision training for multi-disciplinary providers in the infant-family early childhood field.

Dates: October 15 and 17, 2024
Time:  11 am – 1 pm
Costs: $60.00 for AK-AIMH members
           $75 for non-Members
           $0 for Behavioral Health Grantees.  This training is open at no cost to behavioral health professionals employed in the behavioral health department of an eligible nonprofit agency that bills Medicaid for services or receives grant funding from the Division of Behavioral Health.  Click here for a list of eligible agencies.

Register here:
https://www.eventbrite.com/e/the-mindful-reflective-parent-tickets-1001414356297?aff=oddtdtcreator

Title: Ghosts in the Nursery Revisited

Webinar Description: This session will focus on applying the Relational Foundations of Reflection model (Slade, 2023) to Selma Fraiberg and her colleagues’ classic paper: Ghosts in the nursery: A psychoanalytic approach to the problems of impaired infant-mother relationships (1975).  Ghosts in the Nursery offers us lessons for infant mental health practice that have been proven true time and again over the last 50 years.  Fraiberg and her colleagues’ infant-parent program was the first to treat parents and infants together, and - long before these terms had taken hold in any of our imaginations – it was the first reflective parenting program, the first relationship-based program, the first attachment-based intervention, and the first trauma-informed intervention.  Using Fraiberg’s first case studies, this session will focus on the ways she and her colleagues first established safety and regulation, and then built relationships to support reflection and the disappearance of unwanted and destructive ghosts.

Presenter: Arietta Slade, Ph.D.
An internationally recognized theoretician, clinician, researcher, and teacher, she has written widely on the development of parental reflective functioning, the implications of attachment for child and adult psychotherapy, and relationship-based infant mental health practice. She is Co-Founder and Director of Training for Minding the Baby® (MTB), an evidence-based interdisciplinary reflective home visiting program for young families facing adversity. Dr. Slade is also an author and editor, and is currently writing a book on reflective parenting with her MTB colleagues (forthcoming, Guilford, 2022). She has also been in private practice for nearly 40 years, working with individuals of all ages. 

Date:  November 21, 2024
Time:  9 am – 11 am
Costs: $45.00 for AK-AIMH members
           $60 for non-Members
           $0 for Behavioral Health Grantees.  This training is open at no cost to behavioral health professionals employed in the behavioral health department of an eligible nonprofit agency that bills Medicaid for services or receives grant funding from the Division of Behavioral Health.  Click here for a list of eligible agencies.

Register Here:
https://www.eventbrite.com/e/ghosts-in-the-nursery-revisited-tickets-1001516491787?aff=oddtdtcreator