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British Scholars to Discuss Infant Mental
Health at UW Symposium
A trio of experts from University College London and the Anna Freud Centre will be the featured speakers at a clinical symposium on the treatment of relationship difficulties for infants and their caregivers on Saturday, May 17, 8:30-4:30, in Hogness Auditorium in the Magnuson Health Sciences Center.

"Prevention of Psychopathology in Infants: Early Clinical Interventions with Infants and their Caregivers" is being jointly sponsored by the new UW Center on Infant Mental Health and Development, and Family Services of King County. Honored guests include Peter Fonagy, Freud Memorial Professor of Psychoanalysis at University College London; Mary Target, deputy research director at the Anna Freud Centre, London; and Tessa Baradon, senior child psychotherapist and an instructor in the clinical training program at the Anna Freud Centre. All are well-known authors or co-authors of numerous articles on childhood social and emotional development, the outcome of child and adolescent psychotherapies, and the normal and disturbed manifestations of attachment.

This international assembly of experts builds upon more than 30 years of attention to the connections between early attachment relationships, normal development, development of a sense of self, and the development of psychopathology. The program will include clinical case presentations by faculty and students of the Certificate Program in Infant Mental Health and staff from Family Services, followed by panel discussions. Featured speakers will consider the roots of attachment difficulties and a new model of their impact on development, as well as intervention strategies for caregivers and infants with attachment difficulties.

A "Bonus Event" with Tessa Baradon, "Program Models for Treating Babies with their Caretakers," will be held on Friday, May 16, 1:30-5 pm, South Campus Center, room 316.

Continuing education credit of 6.5 hours is available for the Saturday symposium. For more information about both events, or to register on-line, go to www.son.washington.edu/certif-IMH/. Registration will also be available at the door.

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