Our Infant Mental Health and Parent Infant Relationship Level 1 training course covers
attachment, risk factors to the caregiving relationship, supervision and support and keeping in touch.
Enhance your professional practice with our CPD certified training course.
Our training courses are delivered online
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IMHC (Infant Mental Health Competency) training builds on your exsisting knowledge and understanding of parental bonding, infant attachment and parent infant relationships.
Early parent-infant relationship relationships, and the extraordinary development of the brain – with its vulnerability to trauma and neglect – are key to our relationships with others throughout life, and our ongoing emotional wellbeing.
Our training will give you confidence in giving a voice to the baby/child and the impact of their experiences.
The course helps you to support parents and carers who often have their own difficult life histories which, in turn, impact on their capacity to care for their children.
This understanding, and the skills developed further during the course, help you to achieve:
more thorough assessment of emotional needs
reduced risk and better safeguarding
more effective therapeutic intervention
more effective communication with the professional network.
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To be able to hold the infant mental health and wellbeing in mind when you are working with families so that you can deliver high quality care.
You wil be able to identify stressors and risks to the care giving relationship that might impact on the parent infant relationship and in time on the optimum development of the infant.
You will understand how to apply attachment theory in practise. Recognise how attachment styles can enhance interpersonal relationships, including impacting interactions between caregiver and infant.
You will be able to assess additional needs that families may have and support the caregiving relationship through introduction to relevant available resources, including working within relevant legal and professional frameworks.
You will be able to reflect on your personal experience of working with families, to facilitate better communication, understanding and appreciation.
You will feel empowered to work within your own boundaries and to seek support, including supervision when needed.
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In person or online training delivered in 2 parts over one or two day.
Part 1 Mandatory training – Infant Mental Health knowledge and skills
Part 2 Personal and Professional development – Attachment theory in practice
Pre course self-assessment – self guided, time to complete estimated 40 minutes.
Post course self-assessment – self guided, time to complete estimated 40 minutes.
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The human brain has over 100 billion neurons, each connecting to around 10,000 other neurons. These connections are affected by our social and emotional experience from infancy. So how can we help to nurture healthy brains?
Our IMHC Training Courses incorporate current research in the field of child development, including: neuroscience, attachment, emotional regulation, parental attunement and mentalization / reflective capacity.
The courses build on concepts and skills embedded within psychodynamic therapeutic work, mentalization-based therapy and interventions such as the Solihull Approach (Douglas, H. & Ginty, M. 2001), Watch, Wait and Wonder (Muir, E. 1992), the Tavistock Clinic approach: Watch Me Play! (2020), Mind-mindedness (Meins, E. 2012) and Words and Pictures (Hiles, M., Essex, S., Fox, A. and Luger, C. (2008).
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Our IMHC Training Course is designed for practitioners and volunteers working antenatally and postnatally with infants and families, e.g. perinatal staff, parent-infant practitioners, midwives, health visitors, nursery nurses and early years workers.
Our IMHC Training supports skills identified in the Association for Infant Mental Health (AiMH) UK Infant Mental Health Competency Framework.
The trainers are skilled at adapting the course to the appropriate level (varying theoretical content, depth of discussion, and therapeutic techniques) to ensure that all practitioners benefit.
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Lisa Villa - DorPIP Clinical Lead
A specialist midwife with a strong emphasis on supporting and caring for vulnerable women during their pregnancy and in the postnatal period. Lisa has worked as a lead midwife in Perinatal Mental Health and Safeguarding Children within the NHS and is also a Newborn Infant Physical Examination and Newborn Behaviour Observation trained practitioner.
Viv Allen - CEO and DorPIP Founder
Viv Allen understands personally and professionally the critical importance of the first 1001 days for families, infants, and society. From her experience Viv felt compelled to establish a specialist parent infant relationship service and founded DorPIP 2017, so that families could flourish. Since then, Viv has delivered training in perinatal mental health, infant mental health and risk assessment for RCM, BU, Local Authorities, Public Health, and the NHS. In 2021 she won the AIMH High awards for her work promoting IMH.
Marie-Clare Gale
A mental health and wellbeing trainer.
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Our Level 1 Course is broken into a AM and PM session. This can be delivered across one or two days.
Our IMHC Level 1 course is delivered online using Microsoft Teams.
Days and dates can be arranged to suit your needs.
Our IMHC Level 1 Course can be commissioned for a minimum of 5 participants, and maximum 24, to allow time and space for discussion.
All practitioners who complete the course in full are issued with a CPD certificate for 7 hours CPD.
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Our IMH Level 1 Training Course cost £2520 per day (7 hours)
This cost covers:
A 7 hour CPD Certified Training Day for a maximum of 24 learners
A Private Cohort webpage
A interactive course workbook
The entire registration process managed by our team
Pre and Post Course Assessments
A certificate of completion
A detailed analysis of cohort performance for comissioner.
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Course Highlights from Health Visitors and Midwives from NHS Solent Trust
“I would absolutely reccomend DorPIP for IMH training. The video materials in the course were invaluable and really make you think! The registration process was easy and straightforward.” - Clair
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Course Highlights from Barnardos Charity
“The Level 1 course was Interesting and Educative - Great Facilitators and very happy with the way they taught the course. I loved meeting other people and sharing our experiences of parent infant relationships we have seen.” - Tom
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Course Highlights from Coventry Council Family Hub Staff
“I loved being able to listen to and share my professional experiences with others, I am now very confident in talking with families that enter the hub needing support.” - Nish
Let’s work together.
Contact Vivian Allen about Commissioning a Training Course