The Central Role of Human Relationships in Infant Mental Health

Please join us to explore this important topic with Dr. Gilbert Foley, Consulting Clinical Psychologist at the New York Center for Child Development (NYCCD) in New York City and Clinical Co- Director of the New York City Early Childhood Mental Health Training and Technical Assistance Center.

Humans are hard wired to relate, first in order to survive and then to thrive. Because relationships are at the center of human endurance and flourishing, infant mental health is embedded in relationship, devoted to building secure caregiver-child relationships and using relationship as a therapeutic engine.

This presentation will take the participant on a descriptive journey of the infant’s first falling in-love experience, hatching and separate self-formation. Woven into this developmental tale is a discussion of attachment, caregiving attributes that nurture a secure attachment and tools infant mental health professionals such as yourselves can exercise to nurture a cradle of love, trust and faith…