Two new courses from the Jewish Family & Children’s Service Infant-Parent Training Institute: a six week course on The Emotional Journey of Pregnancy, Labor and Delivery, taught by Deborah Issokson and the last Master Class this spring on The Tapestry of Early Relating: Finding The Threads taught by Judy Arons and Ann Epstein.
Master Class with Judith Arons and Dr. Ann Epstein: The Tapestry of Early Relating: Finding the Threads
May 21, 2010
Coffee and Light Refreshments: 8:30 – 9:00 a.m.
Program: 9:00 – 11:30 a.m.
Program Overview:
The study of the earliest relationship between parent and baby has taken on new importance as we learn more about how the baby’s brain and nervous system develop in the context of the caregiving relationship. The study of early attachment is now focusing on the development of collaborative communication: the process that makes us uniquely human. Using extensive videotape footage of a mother and baby during the first fifteen months of life, we will examine in detail the origins of human communication, the different threads that weave together to create meaning and knowing. Through guided observation we will explore how the complex and flexible capacities for love, creativity, and competence – indeed the very organization of the mind – emerge from the earliest communicative processes. By watching and noticing one’s own reactions we will learn about the implicit processes that are active throughout the lifespan in any interpersonal encounter, including the relationship between therapist and patient.
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Six-Week Course: The Woman’s Emotional Journey through Pregnancy, Labor, and Birth
Friday mornings, 10:00 a.m. – noon, April 9 – May 14, 2010
Course Overview:
For women who choose to bear children, their journey through pregnancy, labor, and birth is a biopsychosocial process that will occupy almost a year of their lives. They are embarking on a developmental trajectory that will propel them into reflection on the past, anticipation of the future, new learning, physical challenge, identity shifts, and a rearrangement of their social status. Old issues, both unprocessed as well as those already thought to have been processed, will surface and be revisited. New dilemmas and questions will come to the fore. This is a time ripe for personal growth.
This course will examine the biopsychosocial journey of childbearing women. Through readings, case material, and discussion, participants will explore the myriad twists and turns this journey takes for some women and the ways in which mental health professionals and others who work with pregnant women can be instrumental in facilitating a meaningful and healthy outcome.
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