The Gauteng Association for Infant Mental Health (GAIMH) is inviting multidisciplinary practitioners working with babies from birth to three years of age to a conference to be held at Ububele African Psychotherapy Centre in Kew on 30 and 31 October.
The conference titled, The bodies and minds of babies in relationship: Dialogues in a multidisciplinary context, is a collaboration with the University of Witwatersrand and the Centre of Excellence.
The conference aims to help practitioners to establish greater awareness around infant mental health and to highlight the multidisciplinary nature of the field. Infant mental health refers to younger children’s capacity to experience, express and regulate emotions, form close and secure relationships, explore the environment and learn within a family and a community.
GAIMH encourages this knowledge in practitioners and caregivers as this is a critical developmental period with lifelong consequences in emotional, cognitive and social functioning.
The conference will be addressed by local and international professionals and will encourage the enhancement of secure attachments in infancy, and more research and clinical work in the field.
Nurses, social workers, councillors, early childhood and development practitioners, paediatricians, psychiatrists, psychologists, therapists and others interested in attending should contact GAIMH on gaimh2@gmail.co.
Details: www.gaimh.co.za
