Assessing Parent-Infant Relationships

Summary

Assessing Parent-Infant Relationships
Looking at a baby’s early development and how it is impacted by their parents’ attachment histories and the parent-baby relationships.

Friday 9th and 16th May 2025

Training

This two-day training looks at a baby’s early development and how it is impacted by their parents’ attachment histories and the parent-baby relationships. A particular focus will be on how a baby’s brain development is ‘experience dependent’ and thus moulded by the people with whom they live. Video clips will be central to the training and will help participants to become better observers and to increase their understanding of the impact of parental mental health difficulties, and their risky, neglectful, or abusive behaviour on the developing child.

Please note: Your Zoom link will be emailed a week before and a reminder sent the day before. You may need to check your spam folder incase it ends up there! You can also log in to your SheepApp account to access messages.

All OXPIP training is APPCIOS endorsed and contributes towards APPCIOS accreditation. APPCIOS (The Association for Psychodynamic Practice and Counselling in Organisational Settings), is a member organisation of the British Psychoanalytic Council.

Learning Outcomes

Participants’ confidence in assessing parent-infant relationships will be increased through developing their skills in identifying:

• non-verbal, embodied communication between infants and parents
• the links between primitive emotional states and behaviour in clients and themselves
• main stressors on the parent-infant relationship
• projective mechanisms in interactions
• parents’ capacity to change
• impact of their work on themselves