Infant Mental Health is about early relationships: their origins and their power
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Heidi MaderiaCT Association for Infant Mental Health
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CT-AIMH 2017 Annual Spring Meeting and Seminar
The CT-AIMH 2017 Spring Meeting and Seminar will be held at the Woodwinds in Branford, CT. This year our presenters are: Dr. Linda Mayes and her colleague Dr. Helena Rutherford.
Dr. Linda Mayes is the Arnold Gesell Professor of Child Psychiatry, Pediatrics, and Psychology and the Director of the Yale Child Study Center. She is also the Special Advisor to the Dean, Yale School of Medicine and Distinguished Visiting Professor at Sewanee: The University of the South. Dr. Mayes’ research focuses on the long-term impact of prenatal exposures on children’s cognitive and social-emotional development and on how addiction impacts adults’ ability to transition to parenthood and care for a child.
Dr. Helena Rutherford is an assistant professor at the Yale Child Study Center and her research focuses on the neurobiology of parenting and the development of new approaches to assess parenting in the lab. Her recent work has focused on measuring sensativity to infant cues (visual and auditory) as well as top-down regulation of response to infant cues. She is also interested in how addiction may affect these processes.
Presentation: How Addiction impacts the Parenting Relationship
This session will review models of addiction and an addictive process especially as these relate to social attachment and parenting. As adults transition to parenthood, reward and stress systems adapt at both neural and psychological levels to the demands of caring for an infant. Addiction in a parent impacts especially how rewarding caring for an infant is compared to the focus of the adults’ addiction. Understanding how addiction impacts the transition to parenthood also informs the focus of interventions with addicted parents.
Learning objectives:
1. Understand the neural and psychological basis of addiction
2. Understand how parenting is an adult developmental stage involving psychological and neural changes
3. Understand how addiction impacts the transition to parenthood and how this understanding informs interventions with addicted parents
- A continental breakfast will be provided.
- You may pay your 2017 CT-AIMH Individual Membership Fee when you register, to get a reduced price for both the CT-AIMH Spring meeting and seminar and the CT-AIMH Fall Confernce.
- 2017 CT-AIMH Agency Memberships will need to be paid separately. Agency Membership forms and online payment methods are available at www.ct-aimh.org.
- CT-AIMH Membership benefits include events and programs from January-December of each year.
- NASW application for CECs is in process. You may pay for CECs when you register.
- If paying by check or Purchase Order (PO), then your payment must be received by April 7, 2017 (one week before the seminar).
- No refunds will be offered after March 31,2017 (two weeks before the seminar).