Keeping the Baby in Mind: A Celebration of the Work of the Third Sector

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Title

Keeping the Baby in Mind: A Celebration of the Work of the Third Sector

When

Tuesday 16 May, 09:30 to 16:30

Where

Online via Zoom

Summary

For nearly 3 years, Human Development Scotland (HDS) has had the privilege and pleasure of working alongside an amazing group of workers from a variety of settings and agencies in the Third Sector where we have spent a half day a week, for 6 weeks at a time, thinking about Infant Mental Health and in particular baby observation.

Now, at the end of our series of courses, we want to welcome back our former students and their colleagues to celebrate and think about the journey we have had together, a rich interchanging of ideas that has informed all our practice.

Programme

09:30  Welcome from HDS plus housekeeping – Annie Baikie, lead for HDS Infant Mental Health training programme

09:40  Welcome address from Harriet Waugh, Head of Perinatal and Early Years Mental Health Team, Scottish Government

09:50  ‘Wellbeing for Wee Ones’ with keynote speaker: Dr Anne McFadyen, Infant Mental Health Lead for Perinatal Mental Health Scotland

10:20  Question & Answer session

10:35  Morning break

10:50  Into workshops

10:55  Workshops – delegates pre-select the workshop they would like to attend (see choices below)

11:55  Back into main group

12:00  Feedback from workshops

12:25  Lunch

13:20  Welcome back from HDS plus housekeeping – Annie Baikie,  lead for HDS Infant Mental Health training programme

13:25  Welcome to the afternoon from Leanne Anderson, Fund Manager - Perinatal & Infant Mental Health at Inspiring Scotland

13:40  ‘Early years in all our minds: an opportunity for informing each other’s practice’ - experiences and reflections from the HDS Infant Mental Health course for Third Sector workers with keynote speaker: Annie Baikie, lead for HDS Infant Mental Health training programme and supported by students from a range of organisations including Crossreach , Scottish Child Minders Association, Home-Start East Highland

14:15  Question & Answer session

14:30  Into workshops

14:35  Workshops - delegates pre-select the workshop they would like to attend (see choices below)

15:35  Afternoon break

15:45  Feedback from workshops

16:10  Closing remarks and thanks

16:30  Event finishes

Workshop choices

Please select:

• one workshop to attend in the morning; and
• one workshop to attend in the afternoon.

Workshop numbers are limited. We are sorry if your first choice is not available.

You must register for workshops which will be your ticket for this event. 

Zoom joining information for the event will then be emailed to you nearer the time of the event.

If you are booking tickets for a number of colleagues, please remember to select their workshops and tell us in the booking form who is attending which workshop.

Morning workshops

Workshop 1	Workshop 2	Workshop 3	Worksop 4	Workshop 5
Thinking about the impact participation in art can have upon the social well-being of young children and how shared art experiences may help to build strong attachment relationships.	Thinking about the use of infant observation to inform work with parents and infants.	Assessing Infant Mental Health in rural areas of Scotland.	Thinking about the use of infant observation to inform work with parents and infants.	Thinking about working relationships between NHS specialist Infant Mental Health services and Third Sector services, and how these could be developed and strengthened for the benefit of infants and their families.
Vicky Armstrong & Josephine Ross, Art at the Start	Joan Herrmann, Consultant Child and Adolescent Psychotherapist	Viviane Rodgers, trainee Child and Adolescent Psychotherapist	Carol O’Connor, Child Psychotherapist	Gillian Sloan Donachy, Consultant Child Psychotherapist and  the lead for Infant Mental Health in the Glasgow specialist service

Afternoon workshops

Workshop 1	Workshop 2	Workshop 3	Worksop 4	Workshop 5
Thinking about the impact participation in art can have upon the social well-being of young children and how shared art experiences may help to build strong attachment relationships.	Exploring intergenerational trauma experiences of care experienced expectant parents and interventions, beginning in pregnancy that support the developing relationship between parents and their unborn child across the perinatal period.	What we can learn through infant observation about the relational attunement of a mother and baby where the infant has visual impairment.	"When Sense Does not Make Sense" Impact of the prolonged hospital stay on child development, how to ameliorate the impact and support the infant and the parents.	Hearing the ‘voice of the infant’ working as a child psychotherapist in an NHS infant mental health team.
Vicky Armstrong & Josephine Ross, Art at the Start	Esther Congreave, trainee Child and Adolescent Psychotherapist	Laura Hancock, trainee Child and Adolescent Psychotherapist	Nashwa Matta, Associate Specialist in Neonatology & Neurodisability	Kasia Zych,Child and Adolescent Psychotherapist

Cost

This event is FREE* to attend. However, you must register for workshops which will be your ticket for this event. Zoom joining information will then be emailed to you nearer the time of the event.

*This event is free thanks to grant funding that HDS has received from the Perinatal and Infant Mental Health Fund set up by the Scottish Government and allocated through Inspiring Scotland.

About the keynote speakers and workshop speakers

Anne McFadyen

Dr Anne McFadyen is a Child and Adolescent Psychiatrist. She is the Infant Mental Health Lead for Perinatal Mental Health Scotland and an adviser to the Scottish Government Perinatal and Early Years policy team. She is passionate about helping wee ones get off to a good start and has worked with colleagues across Scotland to help them set up infant mental health services.

Annie Baikie

Annie Baikie is a Consultant Child and Adolescent Psychotherapist and lead for HDS Infant Mental Health training programme for Third Sector workers. Annie teaches on both the observation course and the clinical training at HDS. After 25 years in CAMHS Annie now works as a child psychotherapist for Barnardo’s Fostering.

Carol O’Connor

Dr Carol O’ Connor is a highly experienced Child Psychotherapist recently retired from NHS Lanarkshire where she played an integral part in organising and delivering Infant Mental Health training to NHS and Social Work staff. Carol has been part of the team delivering the HDS Infant Mental Health programme of training and consultation to the Third Sector.

Esther Congreave

Esther Congreave is a trainee Child and Adolescent Psychotherapist in NHS Greater Glasgow . Esther is part of the specialist Infant Mental Health team. Prior to training Esther was a highly experienced art therapist working with children and young people who were care experienced. Esther’s research explores intergenerational trauma experiences of care experienced expectant parents and interventions, beginning in pregnancy that support the developing relationship between parents and their unborn child across the perinatal period. 

Gillian Sloan Donachy

Dr Gillian Sloan Donachy is a Consultant Child Psychotherapist and  the lead for Infant Mental Health in the Glasgow specialist service. She is the co-lead of the child psychotherapy training and infant observation course in Scotland.  Gillian was previously  part of an NSPCC project, working with infants separated from their birth families. Gillian is interested in thinking about working relationships between her NHS service and Third Sector services, and how these could be developed and strengthened for the benefit of infants and their families.

Joan Hermann

Dr Joan Hermann is a highly experienced Consultant Child and Adolescent Psychotherapist who was formerly head of the child psychotherapy training in Scotland. She has been part of the team delivering the HDS Infant Mental programme of training and consultation to the Third Sector.

Josephine Ross, Art from the Start

Dr Josephine Ross is a lecturer in Developmental Psychology at Dundee University. Her primary research interest is in the development of self-awareness. Children’s realisation that they are an individual has far reaching psychological consequences; encouraging independence, self-evaluation, self-reflection (including personal memories), and fostering a social-conscience. The development of self-awareness takes place in the context of children’s relationship with other people, and is shaped by the responses they receive. Josephine is interested in researching how early relationships and interactions contribute to children’s growing self-awareness, and how parents and caregivers can support children in this journey. 

Kasia Zych

Kasia Zych is an experienced Child and Adolescent Psychotherapist in NHS Greater Glasgow. Previously having worked in CAMHS Kasia now works in the specialist Infant Mental Health team. Kasia has contributed to a range of forums on Infant Mental Health including delivering the HDS Third Sector training in Infant Mental Health. Kasia has done further specialist training in Infant Mental Health. Kasia will be talking about her direct work in the Infant Mental Health specialist team.

Laura Hancock

Laura Hancock is a trainee Child and Adolescent Psychotherapist in NHS Fife. Laura was previously an experienced clinician in a CAMHS early intervention team and also worked as an adult counsellor. Laura is researching attachment between visually impaired infants and their primary caregivers. 

Nashwa Matta

Dr Nashwa Matta worked as a Neonatologist for 16 years, developing special interest in Child development and Neurodisability; she went on post membership to further develop her interest in Neurodisability by obtaining a UK post-graduate diploma in the subject.

Nashwa has been involved in the developmental follow-up of children born preterm in Glasgow for the past 20 years, and her interest extended to children with exceptional health needs. In 2015, she started a Neurodevelopmental follow up clinic for children born with severe congenital heart disease specially those required ECMO (extra-corporeal membrane oxygenation).

Nashwa developed an interest in infant mental health seeing the effect of the NICU/PICU trauma on the infants and their families.

She has been a committee member of the NICE guideline group on “Developmental follow-up of children and young people born preterm” published August 2017, and a specialist committee member on the QSAC (Quality Standards Advisory Committee) for the same guideline.

Vicky Armstrong, Art from the Start

Vicky Armstrong is an HCPC registered Art Psychotherapist. She worked from 2008-2018 with children who had experienced early trauma and has further training in Dyadic Art Therapy, parent-infant work and relational assessments. Vicky is particularly interested in the attuned relationship between a baby and their primary caregiver. She developed parent-infant art therapy groups to use art therapy to help maximise the positive experience of this relationship for both baby and parent. Vicky was delighted to join University of Dundee in 2018 to continue this research into art making in the early years with a doctoral research project, and now to be able to take this forward as a research fellow, expanding the model to support more families. Vicky runs art therapy groups, public sessions, outreach to under-served communities, and public engagement activities.

Viviane Rogers

Viviane Rogers is a trainee Child and Adolescent Psychotherapist in NHS Argyle and Bute. Viv has many years experience as a specialist clinician in CAMHS . Viv’s research looks at accessing Infant Mental Health services in rural areas of Scotland . Viv has spent many years championing access to a range of specialist services for rural areas.