Events and Seminars
| Event | : | Reflective Function and Mentalization |
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| Venue | : | Online |
| Date | : | 28/02/2025 |
| Duration | : | 3:30 - 5:30pm |
| Extra Info | : | With Dr. Arietta Slade, Alice Jacobs Waterfall (Facilitator) & Alison Bruce (Facilitator) Dr. Slade will present a framework for clinical work that grew out her decades’ work directing Minding the Baby, an interdisciplinary home visiting program aimed at enhancing attachment and mentalizing in parents with histories of complex trauma, adversity, and extreme stress. A history of severely disrupted attachments poses unique challenges to mentalizing and thus to parenting, insofar as threat and dysregulation preclude intimacy and attunement. The framework – the Relational Foundations of Reflection - is aimed at building secure attachments and mentalizing from the ground up. The path to reflection begins with the establishment of safety, regulation, and trust. This begins with the clinician, upon whose safety, regulation and reliability parents and children depend. From their own sense of security, the clinician can then find ways to diminish traumatized parents’ sense of danger and dysregulation, and to create a relationship that will hold the parent and the complexity of their feelings. Only then can the parent begin to provide safety, regulation, and build a trusting relationship with the child. |
| Organised By | : | Tavistock Relationships |
| Web Link | : | https://trtogether.com/events/parent-infant-dr-slade |