AIMH (UK) THE ASSOCIATION FOR INFANT MENTAL HEALTH

ANNOUNCING AIMH (UK) ANNUAL CONFERENCE - FRIDAY 14TH MAY 2010
NEWCASTLE-UPON-TYNE

'The Invisible Child : How do Children Cope with Domestic Violence?'

Venue: St James Park Football Ground/Conference Centre

Speakers to include:

Dr Chris Harrison: Associate Professor and Chair SHSS, Warwick Medical School,
Her Honour Judge Moir: Designated Family Judge for both Sunderland County Court and Newcastle County Court with an interest in Infant Mental Health
Robin Balbernie: Child Psychotherapist
Ann Horne: Child and Adolescent Psychotherapist
George Hosking: Chief Executive and Co-Founder The Wave Trust, Economist, Psychologist and Clinical Criminologist
Dr Janet Shaw: Head of Clinical Training NSCAP will Chair the Conference

Flyer with full information, prices/programme etc will be available soon, members will be notified

city-visitor.com/newcastleupontyne/wheretostay.html is a useful website for 'where to stay' information, click on link

Register your interest with the Administrator at info@aimh.org.uk

GMTV and Amanda Jones
GMTV have recently produced a series of short programmes (25 in all) called The Baby Breakfast Club.
AIMH Committee Member and Psychotherapist, Amanda Jones is involved in two of these that relate to bonding and post-natal depression. Click on the links below for access to the programmes 'Bonding with your Baby' and 'Post-Natal Depression'
www.gm.tv/bonding-with-your-baby/
www.netmums.com/postnatal-depression

AIMH (NI) Northern Ireland
The newly formed Association for Infant Mental Health (NI) had its formal launch at the Long Gallery in Stormont on November 19th 2009 and was hosted by Carmel Hanna MLA, John McAllister MLA and Dolores Kelly MLA.

Invited guests included Dr Liz McDonald (AIMH (UK)) and London based consultant in Perinatal Psychiatry). Guests were addressed by Chairperson Eamon McMahon, Family Therapist and by the Association Secretary Dr Angela O'Rawe, Child and Adolescent Psychiatrist and Paediatrician. The Association for Infant Mental Health (NI) has been established by a wide range of professionals and practitioners from the primary care sector, from mental health services as well as from community and voluntary sectors. AIMH (NI) have come together to establish the association in order to highlight the need for infant mental health services in Northern Ireland. Northern Ireland lags behind much of the developed world in terms of infant and perinatal mental health services - this is despite many decades of research indicating that the most effective and economically efficient way to improve social and emotional wellbeing in society is to begin at the stage of pregnancy and infanthood.

CLINICAL WORKSHOP 19/09/09 - 'Keeping the Baby in Mind' working with Mothers with Mental Health Problems and their Babies'
.pdf versions of the slides prepared by Susan Pawlby and her team from The Channi Kumar Mother and Baby Unit for this Workshop, can now be downloaded from the Publications page.