Infant-Parent Mental Health Post-Graduate Certificate Program

2010-2011 Schedule

The program will generally run from 9am on Friday to 4pm Sunday. A total of 22 CEUs will be awarded for successful completion of the entire program.

I. Thursday, September 23rd – Sunday, September 26th, 2010
(Thursday: 1pm-5pm; Friday 9am-5pm; Saturday 9am-5pm; Sunday 9am-4pm)
Program Commencement: Interactive Weekend with Luminary Speakers
  • Core Faculty Case Presentations
  • Dan Siegel, Ph.D., (via remote video-conference) Toward and Interpersonal Neurobiology of the Developing Mind: Attachment Relationships, "Mindisght" and Neural Integration
  • Ed Tronick, Ph.D., Diadic States of Consciousness Model (DSCM)
  • Stephen Ruffins, Ph.D. and Ed Tronick, Ph.D. Thinking about Similarity and Difference
II. Friday, October 15th – Sunday October 17th , 2010
(Friday: 9am-5pm; Saturday 9am-5pm; Sunday 9am-4pm)
Postpartum Mood Disorders
Interactive Weekend with Luminary Speakers
  • Lynne Murray Ph.D. and Peter Cooper, Ph.D., Therapeutic Family Interventions with Postpartum Depression in the United Kingdom.
  • Lee Cohen, M.D., Advances in Postpartum Mental Health
  • Ed Tronick, Ph.D., Overview of research on infant outcomes
  • Focused training with Core Faculty
  • Reflective supervision and facilitated group integration of course material
III. Thursday, November 11th – Sunday, November 14th, 2010
(Friday: 9am-5pm; Saturday 9am-5pm; Sunday 9am-4pm)
Neonatal Assessment and Attachment-Based Therapeutics
Interactive Weekend with Luminary Speakers
  • Kevin Nugent, Ph.D., NBO Training
  • Charles Zeanah, M.D., Attachment-based Interventions in Infant Mental Health and Working Model of the Child Interview
  • Focused training with Core Faculty
  • Reflective supervision and facilitated group integration of course material
IV. Thursday, December 9th – Sunday, December 12th, 2010*
(Friday: 9am-5pm; Saturday 9am-5pm; Sunday 9am-4pm)
Zero-to-Three National Training Institute in Phoenix Arizona
  • Special UMB IPMH Fellows Seminar and Reunion of Napa and Boston Program Graduates
* Registration and Travel Fees to this conference are not included in course fee.
V. Friday, January 14th – Sunday, January 16th, 2011
(Friday: 9am-5pm; Saturday 9am-5pm; Sunday 9am-4pm)
Mentalization-Based Therapeutics
Interactive Weekend with Luminary Speaker
  • Peter Fonagy, Ph.D., The Development of Mentalization and Mentalization-Based Psychotherapeutics
  • Dorothy Richardson, Ph.D., Parent-Infant Psychotherapy
  • Focused trainings with Core Faculty
  • Reflective supervision and facilitated group integration of course material
VI. Friday, February 11th – Sunday, February 13th, 2011
(Friday 9am-5pm; Saturday 9am-5pm; Sunday 9am-4pm)
Neurodevelopmental Models
Interactive Weekend with Luminary Speaker
  • Bruce Perry, Ph.D., Neurobiology & Trauma; Neurosequential Model of Therapeutics (NMT)
  • Deborah Bauch, MA, OTR/L, Sensory Integration, FAES and DIR Floortime Model Overview
  • Focused trainings with Core Faculty
  • Reflective supervision and facilitated group integration of course material
VII. Friday, March 11th – Sunday, March 13th, 2011
(Friday 9am-5pm; Saturday 9am-5pm; Sunday 9am-4pm)
Disorders of Social Communication; Therapeutic Use of Touch
Interactive Weekend with Luminary Speakers
  • Tiffany Field, Ph.D., Therapeutic Touch in Infant-Parent Mental Health
  • Alice Carter, Ph.D., Overview of Social Communication Disorders in Infants and Toddlers
  • Karen Levine, Ph.D., Therapeutic Interventions with Autism Spectrum Disorders
  • Focused trainings with Core Faculty
  • Reflective supervision and facilitated group integration of course material
VIII. Friday, April 15th – Sunday, April 17th, 2011
(Friday, 9am-5pm; Saturday 9am-5pm; Sunday 9am-4pm)
Therapeutic Use of Videotape
Interactive Weekend with Luminary Speakers
  • George Downing, Ph.D., Video Intervention Therapy (VIT)
  • Carole Gammer, Ph.D., Voice of the Child in Family Systems Therapy
  • Alexandra Harrison, M.D., Parent-Child Consultation Model
  • Reflective supervision and facilitated group integration of course material
IX. Friday, May 20th – Sunday, May 22nd, 2011
(Friday, 9am-5pm; Saturday 9am-5pm; Sunday 9am-4pm)
Developmental Risk and Resilience
  • Barry Lester, Ph.D., Is there a Fetal Origin of Mental Health?
  • Joyce Maguire Pavao, Ph.D., Adoption
  • Kristie Brandt, Ph.D., Clinical Applications of NCAST
  • Focused trainings with Core Faculty
  • Reflective supervision and facilitated group integration of course material
OPTIONAL NCAST TRAINING (for additional fee)
Open to current and past fellows as well as outside applicants
Monday, May 23rd – Friday, May 27th
  • Kristie Brandt, Ph.D.,Certification in NCAST Teaching and Feeding Scales
X. Friday, June 24th – Sunday, June 26th, 2011
(Friday 9am-5pm; Saturday 9am-5pm; Sunday 9am-4pm)
Infant Mental Health Diagnostic Classification Systems and Interdisciplinary Perspectives on Infant-Parent Mental Health
Interactive Weekend with Luminary
  • Connie Lillas, Ph.D., Infant Mental Health from a multidisciplinary perspective: a Neuro Relational Framework (NRF)
  • DC:0-3R Training
  • Cherise Northcutt, Ph.D., Diagnostic Classification Systems and Codes:  DC:0-3R, DSM-IV & V, ICD9, CPT codes
  • Focused trainings with Core Faculty
  • Reflective supervision and facilitated group integration of course material
XI. Thursday, October 6th – Sunday, October 9th, 2011
(Thursday 12pm-5pm; Friday 9am-5pm; Saturday 9am-5pm; Sunday tba)
Colloquium & Graduation Weekend