Shows

INFANT MENTAL HEALTH: CHALLENGES FOR A CHANGING WORLD

PRESENTED BY HIRAM E. FITZGERALD

 

FACILITATED BY LYNN PRIDDIS

Baby

Inclusion of new countries and cultures into the infant mental health framework presents challenges to both researchers and practitioners who are committed to enhancing the quality of life for infants and very young children.   In this session, we will discuss six such challenges: 

  • Cultural Context of Infancy
  • Reaching the Hard to Reach
  • Fathers and Infants
  • Evidence-Based Practices
  • Translational Issues
  • Research to Practice and Policy
  • Diagnostic Classification of Infants.

Thursday 17th November 2016

5:30pm Drinks and light supper 6:00-8:00pm Presentation and discussion

Venue: St John of God Health Care Conference Centre, 3rd Floor SJOGHC Medical Centre,

Cnr McCourt & Cambridge Sts, Subiaco

Cost:    AAIMHI WA Members $15 / non-members $40

Full time students (show Uni ID card): AAIMHI WA Members $10 / non-members $25

RSVP: Thursday, 10th November to Kath Craig, aaimhiwatraining2@gmail.com

Online payment details to be provided upon RSVP

Rural clinicians are invited to join the seminar for free via video & teleconference

and are asked to please RSVP to Cherie Braden aaimhiwatraining@gmail.com

 

 

Hiram E. Fitzgerald, Ph.D., is associate provost for university outreach and engagement and university distinguished professor of psychology, at Michigan State University.  He is President of the National Outreach Scholarship Conference, past president and executive director of the Michigan Association for Infant Mental Health (MI-AIMH) and the International Association for Infant Mental Health and, for 16 years, was executive director of the World Association for Infant Mental Health (WAIMH). In 1977 the Michigan Association for Infant Mental Health became the first formal professional association specifically organized to advance infant mental health as a scientific-clinical interdisciplinary field.  The 1992 merger of the International Association for Infant Mental Health and the World Association of Infant Psychiatry and Allied Disciplines created the World Association for Infant Mental Health, thereby facilitating expansion of the concept of infant mental health to every continent.

Fitzgerald has been involved with research on infants and young children since 1964, has been associated with the Michigan Longitudinal Study of Family Risk for Alcoholism over the Life Course for 27 years, was a member of the Steering Committee of the Early Head Start national evaluation research consortium group for 15 years. He is a member of the MSU Weba Anung research team monitoring work force development and early childhood education in partnership with the Intertribal Council of Michigan, is a member of the steering committees of the Native Children’s Research Exchange, the Tribal Research Center for Early Childhood Education, and the national research team overseeing the Tribal Family and Children Experiences Survey.  His major areas of research include the study of infant and family development in community contexts, the impact of fathers on early child development, implementation of systemic community models of organizational process and change, the etiology of alcoholism, and broad issues related to the scholarship of engagement. He has published over 500 scholarly works, including journal articles, chapters and books. He served two terms as editor of the Infant Mental Health Journal and currently is associate editor of Perspectives on Infant Mental Health

Fitzgerald has received the MI-AIMH Selma Fraiberg Award, the ZERO TO THREE Dolley Madison Award for Outstanding Lifetime Contributions to the Development and Well Being of Very Young Children, is one of four Honorary Presidents of the WAIMH, and is a Fellow of 5 Divisions of the American Psychological Association and the Association of Psychological Science. He is a MI-AIMH Endorsement Level 4 Mentor. 

Midsquare_aaimhi_orange

This event has completely sold out!