Clinical training: Mentalising the Body in Research and Clinical Practice: Parental Embodied Mentalising Assessment (PEMA™)

Summary

PEMworks will delivering an intensive clinical training for professionals working with caregivers and young children and infants at the Anna Freud National Centre for Children and Families on: Mentalizing the Body in Research and Clinical Practice: Parental Embodied Mentalizing Assessment (PEMA™).

Professor Peter Fonagy will be providing an “Introduction to PEMA in Context” in the morning of the first day and Drs. Dana Shai & Rose Spencer will deliver the full clinical training. 

PEMA™ assesses nonverbal risk and protective factors in parent-infant (0-2 years) dyads. The training uses video examples as well as uses experiential means to explore key features of caregiver-infant nonverbal communication and their significance in child development. 

PEMA training provides participants an opportunity to help identify movement patterns underlying mentalizing processes between caregivers and their infants and identify risk and protective factors to formulate clinical assessment and intervention.

The training is suitable for professionals working with caregivers and their infants in early years settings, including health visitors, social workers, nursery nurses, psychologists and psychiatrists. 

Training will be held virtually January 29th – February 2nd 2024 (Monday -Friday) 09:00am – 12:30pm GMT. 

Training includes synchronous and asynchronous learning and will be delivered online via zoom video.

“This training was immediately engaging. The facilitators shared their wealth of experience and clinical expertise in an enthusiastic and generous manner.”

– Previous delegate