Promoting Positive Parent-Infant Relationships: Understanding the Implications of Attachment

Dates:

September 16, 2005,
February 17, 2006, and
May 05, 2006

Details:

Attachment Disorganization and Disorders of Attachment

Clinical practice in infant mental health often requires practitioners to access and intervene with high-risk, problematic, parent-infant relationships. This seminar is designed to provide practitioners with an introduction to attachment theory and research, with an emphasis on the implications of this theoretical model for clinical practice with infants and families. The seminar will provide a bio-psycho-social view of attachment from both normative and high-risk perspectives, with an emphasis on understanding the origins of clinical disturbances in parent-child relationships. Specific topics covered will include current research on the biological underpinnings of attachment disorder, current trends and controversies in the assessment of attachment disorders, and an overview of attachment relationship-based interventions. Clinical vignettes and videotapes will be used to illustrate relevant topics.

About the Presenters
Katherine Rosenblum, PhD is a clinical developmental psychologist at the center for Human Growth and Development at the University of Michigan. Her work focuses on exploring the important role played by early parent-child attachment relationships on child mental health. Dr. Rosenblum's current research projects include an intervention study for postpartum depressed mothers and their infants, long-term adult outcomes of children with mentally ill parents, and a study of adoptive family relationships. She has published and lectured on the clinical applications of attachment theory for infant mental health practitioners both in the United States and internationally.
Maria Muzik, MD is a psychiatrist at the Department of Psychiatry at the University of Michigan. She completed her medical training at the University of Vienna, Austria. Dr. Muzik is a candidate at the Vienna Psychoanalytic Society and a research fellow with the International Psychoanalytic Association. Her clinical and research interests include early parent-infant relationships, postpartum depression and anxiety, and the biological process that contributes to the development of risk and resilience in children growing up in high-risk contexts.

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Register Online at:Kent County Early On 2005-2006 Workshop Schedule

Trainers:

Katherine Rosenblum, PhD and Maria Muzik, MD