Relapse, Risk, Recovery, and Resilience: Engaging in complex relationship work with substance-dependent mothers and their babies
Friday March 11, 2016, 9:00-11:30. In this Master Class three Project NESST (Newborns Exposed to Substances: Support and Therapy) clinicians from the JF&CS Center for Early Relationship Support will share lessons learned and questions held from their work with mothers in recovery: Jennifer Meyerhardt, MEd, JD; Caroline Phillips, DClinPsy, Mphil; and Amy Sommer, LICSW. Space is limited. For more information, contact Deborah Walker at [email protected] or 781-693-5652. To register: http://bit.ly/MasterClassMarch2016

Also, the Maternal Mental Health Course will be offered on Wednesday mornings starting March 23rd. This eight-session course examines the profound emotional transformation of becoming a mother, the influence of culture on maternal mental health, and the impact of mental health on the parent-child relationship. Issues of trauma, intergenerational parenting patterns, research on maternal depression, and mothering under special circumstances are considered. Applications to the course can be downloaded from the JF&CS website at: www.jfcsboston.org/IPTI