

Wed, Sep 27
|Webinar
Reimagining the Transition to Parenthood for 2-Gen Impact
Sponsor: NYC Early Childhood Mental Health
Time & Location
Sep 27, 2023, 10:30 AM – 12:00 PM EDT
Webinar
About the event
Please join us to discuss this important topic with Dr. Catherine Monk of Columbia University
This workshop will discuss two interrelated topics and their implications for clinical intervention: (1) parents’ prenatal impact on children’s brain-behavior development and (2) parents’ own psychosocial needs during the perinatal period, a time of immense change and neuroplasticity.
Drawing on decades of Developmental Origins of Health and Disease research highlighting the prenatal beginnings of future health and new studies on the transition to parenthood describing adult development from pregnancy to early postpartum, we will propose that, similar to pediatrics, the integration of new education and intervention strategies into the prenatal care ecosystem could improve child cognitive and social-emotional development as well as parental mental health. To promote optimal beginnings for the whole family, we envision an enhanced prenatal care ecosystem.
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