The goal of the Pre ESCAP conference WAIMH Training Institute is to disseminate the actual scientific knowledge about Infant Mental Health, and its close links to later child and adolescent psychopathology, beyond our public of infant mental health professionals. Indeed, we still hear very commonly the comment "you can't examine an infant, because he does not speak", or "you don't need to see him, just his parents, he does not understand", and so on... This is in spite of the impressive bulk of knowledge about continuities of psychopathology from infancy into adulthood, of which the evidence-proved link between disorganized attachment in infancy and borderline personality disorders in adulthood is one example.

This 4 hours training institute will focus on assessment, treatment and preventive intervention in infant mental health, as the first step in dealing with psychopathology.

Programme

Palvi Kaukonen, M.D. (Tampere University and University Hospital, Finland):
What is infant mental wellbeing in primary care level?

Kaija Puura, M.D., PhD (Tampere University and University Hospital, Finland):
Detecting and Assessing infant distress in a general community health settings

Miri Keren, M.D. (Tel Aviv University, Israel):
Assessment of the quality of parent-infant and mother-infant-father relationships

Debbie Weatherston, PhD (Michigan Association for Infant Mental Health):
The infant within the family: assessment and therapy

Campbell Paul, Consultant, Infant Psychiatrist (Royal Children's Hospital, Victoria, Australia)
Infant Mental Health with Sick Infants and their Families in Hospital