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Introduction to
Infant Mental Health

This two-hour training introduces the role and function of the infant mental health specialist and the use of relationship and reflection in work with families. Participants will reflect on their own careers and be challenged to determine how they can further define their roles with families.

Training topics include:

  • What is infant mental health
  • The field of infant mental health
  • Being an infant mental health specialist
  • Listening toward understanding: a cornerstone of working with infants and parents
  • Collaborations in infant mental health work
  • Group care of infants and toddlers
  • Relationship and reflection in infant mental health work
  • Observation of infants

Participants will learn:

  • Key aspects of infant mental health
     
  • The theoretical and clinical underpinnings of infant mental health practice
     
  • The categories of service an infant mental health specialist might provide
     
  • Ways in which collaboration is used in infant mental health work
     
  • Strategies for actively acknowledging and taking into account the influence of culture in our perceptions and work and in the responses of our coworkers and the families we serve
     
  • Characteristics of good quality group child care
     
  • Features of relationship-based work with infants and their families
     
  • What reflective supervision is and why it is helpful in work with infants and families

Just a note of thanks for sending Michelle [Fallon] our way. She was wonderful!!! She did a beautiful job of illustrating the complexity of infant mental health and the importance of being there for parents and kids that are struggling. She conveyed a strong message of maintaining hope, developing resiliency, and promoting family strengths. It was fantastic! She is a very talented professional and her passion for families was evident.

~ Comments from a training participant ~

Fees

Half-Day Training (up to 4 hours)

  • Twin Cities In-Metro Price (50-mile radius): $500
  • Out of Twin Cities Metro Area Price: $1000

Full-Day Training (up to 8 hours)

  • Twin Cities In-Metro Price (50-mile radius): $1000
  • Out of Twin Cities Metro Area Price: $1500

Note: These prices do not include travel expenses, which are an additional expense.

To make a request for this presentation:

Complete the online Training Request Form

or

Print and fax the Training Request Form to 612-625-2093 (attention: Sara Zettervall)

or

Contact Sara Zettervall by phone at 612-625-2252.

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