CT-AIMH 2015 Annual Meeting and Seminar

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This year we will have two presenters:

Presenter:  Marilyn R. Sanders, MD, FAAP, is an attending neonatologist at Connecticut Children’s Medical Center, and Professor of Pediatrics at the University of Connecticut School of Medicine

Topic: Strengthening the Safety Circuit: Trauma Informed Care in Infancy.

Dr. Marilyn Sanders has devoted her career to the care of vulnerable newborns, infants, and young children. She graduated from the University of Kansas School of Medicine, trained in pediatrics at the University of Connecticut School of Medicine and completed her neonatal-perinatal fellowship at Johns Hopkins School of Medicine and the University of Connecticut. Currently, she is an attending neonatologist at Connecticut Children’s Medical Center where she cares for critically ill newborns and infants and provides neurodevelopmental follow-up care. She is also a Professor of Pediatrics at the University of Connecticut School of Medicine. Given her longstanding interests in attachment, maternal-infant relationships and social-emotional outcomes, she received a post-graduate certificate in Infant-Parent Mental Health from the University of Massachusetts, Boston. 

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 Presenter: Beth S. Russell, Ph.D., is an Assistant Professor in the Human Development and Family Studies department at the University of Connecticut.

Topic: Supporting new parents’ self-regulation: Coping with crying

  Beth Russell, Ph.D., is an Assistant Professor in the Human Development and Family Studies department at the University of Connecticut. Her areas of expertise include the development of self regulation in the context of the parent child relationship, child abuse prevention, program evaluation, and methods research designs. From 2000-2005, Dr. Russell was involved in the Center for Applied Research in Human Development at UConn, where she was involved in designing and evaluating parent education programs of many types. In addition to these translational research activities, Dr. Russell also contributed to several studies of parental contributions to self-regulation in childhood, including longitudinal studies from birth through infancy and through the toddler and preschool years. During her doctoral years Dr. Russell designed and implemented a randomized control trail of a child abuse prevention intervention to raise awareness on Shaken Baby Syndrome. As part of this project, Dr. Russell tested the differential impacts intervention material type has on intended caregiving outcomes. Several publications have been released on these results, showing that not all intervention materials promote participant change equally. Dr. Russell’s recent work on the impact of parent-child relationships on children’s outcomes includes consideration of contextual and individual risk – from parenting in the face of poverty, or across the normative transition to parenthood.

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