Circle of Security Parenting DVD Training

Start date: 
Tuesday, 13. September 2011
End date: 
Friday, 16. September 2011
Place: 
Auckland
Cost: 
NZ $980

"This 4-Day seminar trains professionals to use an eight chapter DVD to educate caregivers. The DVD and manual can be used with families chapter by chapter or in multi-chapters to assist caregivers to better understand how attachment relationships can impact on child behaviour. The program presents video examples of secure and difficult parent/child interaction, healthy options in caregiving, and animated graphics designed to clarify principles central to COS®. Circle of Security Parenting© implements decades of attachment research in an accessible step-by-step process for use in group settings, home visitation, or individual counselling. This training is suitable for all professionals working with children and their families including social workers, counsellors, psychologists, family/whanau workers, foster care givers, Plunket and other health care workers."

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Emotional Availability Scales Training

Start date: 
Monday, 25. July 2011
End date: 
Wednesday, 27. July 2011
Place: 
Wellington
Cost: 
NZ$760

"EA is an evidence-based assessment that has enjoyed widespread use in both research and clinical settings in the US and other countries. EA is methodologically rigorous as well as a clinically sensitive instrument. As such it is suited for clinical and research settings. It has been of value to practitioners such as clinical psychologists, social workers, psychiatrists, pediatricians, child care professionals, custody evaluators, occupational therapists, etc.) as well as the basic researcher.
An asset of the EA Scales is that two dimensions of the sale measure child qualities—child responsiveness to the caregiver and the child’s involvement with the caregiver, thus capturing not only the adult’s side of the relationship (sensitivity, structuring, nonintrusiveness and nonhostility), but also the child’s side of the relationship. The key to the success of this instrument is that, although culture impacts how parents and children interact with one another, the emphasis on the presence of an emotional connection makes this tool an important one, even in varying cultural contexts.
The EA Scales have been utilized in over 20 countries, including European and Asian countries, as well as in numerous subcultures in the US."

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13th WAIMH Congress

Start date: 
Tuesday, 17. April 2012
End date: 
Saturday, 21. April 2012
Place: 
Cape Town, South Africa
Cost: 
TBA

Babies in Mind - the Minds of Babies: A View from Africa

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WAIMH Cape Town

"The theme of the Congress Babies in Mind - the Minds of Babies encapsulates the many dimensions of infant mental health. The importance of keeping the baby in mind at all levels is a moral and ethical imperative: for parents, the community and for policy makers in every part of the world; the minds of babies has been an area of fascination for researchers and clinicians for several decades - the growth in our knowledge has been exponential and at every congress new and exciting findings emerge. We look forward to receiving your proposals on these topics and hope to have a rich encounter which brings not only research and clinical practice together, but also Africa and the rest of the world."

ACWA Conference

Start date: 
Monday, 20. August 2012
End date: 
Wednesday, 22. August 2012
Place: 
Sydney

The Association of Children's Welfare Agencies (ACWA) invite you to attend the ACWA 2012 Conference, to be held from 20 - 22 August 2012 at the Sydney Convention and Exhibition Centre, Darling Harbour, Australia. For further information, please click here.