Book description:
Utilizing narrative storytelling, this user-friendly guide describes the principles of early relational health with direct application to day-to-day work with infants and parents. Practitioners on the front lines often feel great pressure to know “what to do” in a wide range of challenging situations. Drawing on both developmental science and extensive clinical experience, this book provides evidence that the exact opposite—a stance of not-knowing—helps us find our way into another person’s experience, offering the greatest opportunity for connection, growth, and healing. It presents a model of “listening in” with an intentional suspension of expectations and a willingness to be surprised. The paradigm of listening in functions as a kind of superpower to enhance teacher–student, professional–parent, and parent–infant relationships.
Virtual monthly 90-minute reflective practice group over 6 months
Using this text as a guide, the group will apply core principles of early relational health to clinical practice through in-depth discussion in a supportive environment
Topics covered include:
— Infant Observation
—Navigating cultural similarities and differences
— Epigenetics and neuroplasticity
—Mutual regulation model and dyadic meaning making
—Polyvagal theory
—Neurosequential model
—Mentalization and reflective functioning
—Models of sensory processing