Mentalizing the Body in Research and Clinical Practice: Parental Embodied Mentalizing Assessment (PEMA™)
Organisation
PEMworks
Type
Training
Location
Online
Application deadline
January 27, 2025
Summary
PEMworks will delivering an intensive online 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™).
Drs. Dana Shai & Rose Spencer will deliver the full clinical training.
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. 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.
Training will be held virtually January 27th – January 31st 2025 (Monday -Friday) 09:00am – 12:30pm GMT.