Infant-Parent Mental Health Post-Graduate Certificate Program

2009-2010 Schedule

The program will generally run from 11am on Friday to 4pm Sunday. A total of 17 - 20 CEUs will be awarded for successful completion of the entire program.

I. Thursday, September 24th – Sunday, September 27th 2009
(Thursday: 1pm - 5pm; Friday: 11am - 5pm; Saturday: 9am - 5pm; Sunday: 9am - 4pm)
Program Commencement:
  • Core Faculty Case Presentations
  • Dan Siegel, Ph.D., Toward an Interpersonal Neurobiology of the Developing Mind: Attachment Relationships, "Mindsight" and Neural Integration
  • Ed Tronick, Ph.D., Diadic States of Consciousness Model (DSCM)
  • Special Guest, A Pediatric View of Infant and Early Childhood Development
  • Stephen Ruffins, Ph.D. and Ed Tronick, Ph.D. Thinking about Similarity and Difference
II. Friday, October 16th – Sunday, October 18th 2009
(Friday: 11am - 5pm; Saturday: 9am - 5pm; Sunday: 9am - 4pm)
Interactive weekend with Luminary Speaker:
  • Alicia Lieberman, Ph.D., Infant-Parent Psychotherapy
  • Judith Solomon, Ph.D., Attachment Disorganization
  • Focused training with Core Faculty
III. Friday, November 13th – Sunday, November 15th 2009
(Friday: 11am - 5pm; Saturday: 9am - 5pm; Sunday: 9am - 4pm)
Interactive weekend with Luminary Speaker:
  • Bruce Perry, Ph.D., Neurodevelopmental Models of Trauma
  • Barry Lester, Ph.D. and Ed Tronick, Ph.D., Neonatal Assessment
  • Marjorie Beeghly, Infantand Early Childhood Assessment
  • Focused training with Core Faculty
IV. Friday, December 11th – Sunday, December 13th 2009
(Friday: 11am - 5pm; Saturday: 9am - 5pm; Sunday: 9am - 4pm)
Postpartum Mood Disorders:
  • Lee Cohen, M.D., Advances in Postpartum Mental Health
  • Cheryl Beck, DNSc, CNM, FAAN on Clinical Interventions with Postpartum Mothers and Infants with Expert Panel of Discussants
  • Ed Tronick, Ph.D. Overview of research on Infant Outcomes
  • Focused training with Core Faculty
V. Friday, January 22nd – Sunday, January 24th 2010
(Friday: 11am - 6pm; Saturday: 9am - 5pm; Sunday: 9am - 4pm)
Interactive weekend with Luminary Speaker:
  • Peter Fonagy, Ph.D., Attachment and Mentalization
  • Joyce Pavao, Ph.D., Issues related to Adoption
  • Focused training with Core Faculty
VI. Friday, February 26th – Sunday, February 28th 2010
(Friday: 11am - 6pm; Saturday: 9am - 5pm; Sunday: 9am - 4pm)
Developmental Risk and Regulatory Disorders:
  • Barry Lester, Ph.D. on Is There a Fetal Origin of Mental Health?
  • Jean Twomey, Ph.D. on Clinical Approaches to Sleep, Feeding and Colic
  • Kristie Brandt, Ph.D. Overview of NCAST Feeding and Teaching Scales
  • Focused training with Core Faculty
VII. Friday, March 26th – Sunday, March 28th 2010
(Friday: 11am - 6pm; Saturday: 9am - 5pm; Sunday: 9am - 4pm)
Disorders of Social Communication:
  • Alice Carter, Ph.D. Overview on Autism Spectrum Disorders
  • Karen Levine, Ph.D., Clinical Approaches to Social Communication Disorders
  • Jane Koomar, Ph.D., OTR/L Sensory Processing Problems
  • Focused training with Core Faculty
VIII. Friday, April 23rd – Sunday, April 25th 2010
(Friday: 11:30am - 4pm; Saturday: 9am - 5pm; Sunday: 9am - 4pm)
Therapeutic Use of Videotape with Luminary Speakers:
  • George Downing, Ph.D., Therapeutic use of Videotape
  • Carol Gammer, Ph.D., Voice of the Child in Family Systems Therapy
  • Focused training with Core Faculty
IX. Friday, May 14th – Sunday, May 16th 2010
(Friday: 11am - 6pm; Saturday: 9am - 5pm; Sunday: 9am - 4pm)
Modes of Clinical Intervention:
  • Alexandra Harrison, M.D., Play therapy
  • Deborah Hirschland, MSW, Early Childhood Mental Health Consultation Model
  • Beatrice Beebe, Ph.D. with Bessel van der Kolk, Ph.D. and Ed Tronick, Ph.D., Mother Infant Research Informs Mother-Infant Treatment
  • Charise Northcutt, Infant Mental Health Diagnosis (DC:0-3R)
  • Focused training on Developmental Screening Tools with Alice Carter, Ph.D. and Core Faculty
X. Friday, June 18th – Sunday, June 20th 2010
(Friday: 11am - 6pm; Saturday: 9am - 5pm; Sunday: 9am - 4pm)
Thinking about Diagnostic Issues in Infant Mental Health - Interactive Weekend with Luminary Speaker:
  • Joy Osofsky, Ph.D., Prevention, Intervention and Treatment in Infant Mental Health; Working with DSS and Courts
  • Gerald Stechler, Ph.D., Family Systems and Couples Interventions
  • Focused training with Core Faculty
  • Course Evaluation
XI. Saturday, October 9th – Sunday, October 10th 2010
  • Special Projects Colloquium and Graduation Ceremony