All who are interested in working with families with infants as well as those of you who work with the internal infant and its family are encouraged to attend this year’s series of Secure Beginnings meetings. This year our format will be more experiential than last year. Instead of reading and listening and discussing papers, we will explore actual clinical material. Therapists working with moms and dads and babies will bring sessions. Together, we will explore the multiple levels of communication occurring in the relationships presented in the session. We expect that the experience will evoke new understanding of the primitive mental states evoked in the infant, the parent(s), and the therapist, as well as in ourselves as we work together to understand.
The meetings will be every fourth Wednesday, October through May at 7:30pm at COR Northwest Family Development Center. 1& ½ hours of CPE will be provided.
Tuesday, October 20
Hagit Golan will present a Secure Beginnings case to Mirta Berman Oelsner, PsyA-FIPA in a clinical case consultation group.
Tuesday, November 17
Ambre Olsen will present a Secure Beginnings case to Judy K Eekhoff, PhD-FIPA in a clinical case consultation group.
Wednesday, February 24
Austin Case, MD will present his Baby Observations originally discussed with Ester Bick.
Esther Bick is recognized as a remarkable clinician and an early originator of Mother/Baby observation. Her clinical work was mostly shared in seminars and very little was published. I would like to present some of her 26 hand written pages given to me at the end of our observation year. She picked the topic for my paper, ‘Hand, Mouth, Breast and Nipple relating one oral oedipal response”.
A similar number of pages were given to the other two members. Bob Hinshelwood wrote on physical and bodily false development with lack of a mother’s emotional availability and Michel Feldman’s paper explored post partum depression. Brief quotes will be presented from their papers as well.
Wednesday, March 24
Pamela Mullens, PhD, PT -Presenter
Claire Foote, MN, ARNP, BC-Discussant
Pamela writes:
Brain damage in the prenatal perinatal, or post natal period frequently interferes with all aspects of infant development. I will use the international Classification of Function Disability and Health to describe the level of function and the strengths, weaknesses deficits and potential secondary impairments in an infant with Cerebral Palsy. I will also describe a physical therapy session designed to treat the deficits and a the same time promote physical, social, and emotional development within the context of the mother/ child dyad.
I hope this presentation will stimulate discussion about the application of psychoanalytic theories of development to the management of infants with Cerebral palsy and to the promotion of mother/child interaction.
Wednesday, April 28
Melissa Hoffman, LICSW-Presenter
Judy K. Eekhoff, PhD, FIPA-Discussant
Melissa writes:
I will be presenting a case of a young woman with agoraphobia and trauma who wasn’t able to leave her home in two years except for the emergency delivery of her son who was born at 30 weeks. Baby stayed in NICU for 2 ½ months.
Melissa C. Hoffman is a licensed clinical social worker with a private practice in Everett, WA. She provides psychotherapy for infants, children, adolescents and adults, clinical supervision and consultation to ECEAP. She specializes in providing infant-parent psychotherapy and relationship-focused interventions with caregivers and their young children. Currently, she is a Clinical Instructor with the University of Washington’s School of Nursing. Through the University of Washington she is providing Infant Mental Health services at Providence Everett Healthcare Clinic as part of a five year federally funded grant. Her post-graduate training includes completing Secure Beginnings in 2001 and the Certificate Program in Infant Mental Health from the University of Washington in 2003.
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