The University of Vemont Libraries: Bailey/Howe Library

Bruce A. Gibbard, M.D. Memorial Lectureship Program

Sponsored by the University of Vermont College of Medicine Department of Psychiatry

Friday, March 22, 2013

The Davis Auditorium

Fletcher Allen/UVM Medical Education Center, Burlington

Aritetta Slade, Ph.D.
Minding the Baby(r):
Attachment, Trauma, and the Development of Mentalization

Morning Program:

10:15 – 10:30 A.M. Vermont Psychiatric Association’s Presentation of the Bruce A. Gibbard, M.D. Award for Clinical Excellence for 2013

10:30 − 11:45 A.M. Gibbard Lecture* (Grand Rounds Workshop #13-128-29)
Minding the Baby(r): Attachment, Trauma, and the Development of Mentalization

12:00 − 1:00 P.M. Lunch Reception−−Davis Auditorium Lobby

Afternoon Program (open to Clinicians and Mental Health Professionals only):

1:00 − 3:00 P.M. Workshop* (Davis Auditorium)

“Developing Reflective Capacities in Mothers and Families: Notes from the Field”

*The Afternoon Workshop is open to Clinicians and Mental Health Professionals only. Attendance and clinical affiliation will be taken at the door.

Lecture and Workshop Descriptions

MORNING LECTURE:

Minding the Baby(r): Attachment, Trauma, and the Development of Mentalization

Minding the Baby(r) is an intensive, interdisciplinary home-based intervention aimed at helping parents, whose lives have been disrupted by trauma, abandonment, loss, and severe mental illness, to develop the capacity to envision their own and their child’s subjective experience. While Selma Fraiberg planted the seeds for psychoanalytic infant-parent work over 40 years ago, contemporary efforts have been deeply enriched by developments in infant research, relational psychoanalysis, as well as attachment and mentalization theories, with their particular focus on affect regulation, intersubjectivity, and intergenerational transmission of fear and trauma. Minding the Baby(r) engages mothers before they give birth, with the goal of interrupting cycles of traumatizing, disrupted interactions, and developing more attuned interactions that culminate in a more secure attachment and appropriate development. The presentation will include a discussion of the theoretical frameworks for Minding the Baby(r), a description of the fundamental aspects of mentalization-based infant-parent work, and a summary of a randomized clinical trial and preliminary findings.

Learning Objectives:

1. Participants will learn the fundamental tenets of attachment and mentalization theory, as these pertain to parent-infant intervention.
2. Participants will learn about models and approaches to enhancing attachment and mentalization in young families.
3. Participants will learn about the outcomes of a longitudinal randomized clinical trial examining the impact of Minding the Baby(r) on health, attachment, and relationship outcomes.

AFTERNOON WORKSHOP:

Developing Reflective Capacities in Mothers and Families: Notes from the Field

This seminar will focus more closely on the processes whereby clinicians observe and evaluate a parent’s reflective capacities, and engage parents in becoming more reflective and sensitive in their parenting. This will first involve an in-depth look at what parental reflective functioning looks like in the clinical situation, as well as a discussion of case material and clinical vignettes demonstrating clinical strategies for working with breakdowns in mentalization.

Learning Objectives:

1. Participants will learn how to define and recognize instances of parental reflective functioning.
2. Participants will learn basic techniques for enhancing parental reflective functioning in young parents.
3. Participants will learn basic techniques for interrupting cycles of non-mentalizing interactions.

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About Our Speaker:

Arietta Slade, Ph.D. is Professor of Clinical and Developmental Psychology at the City University of New York, and Visiting Research Scientist at the Yale Child Study Center. Dr. Slade is a theoretician, clinician, researcher, and teacher who has focused for the past 30 years on integrating the domains of attachment research and dynamically oriented clinical practice. She has written widely on the clinical implications of attachment theory, the development of parental reflective functioning and mentalization, and the relational contexts of play and early symbolization. Most recently she has addressed the role of fear in attachment and clinical process. For the past 10 years she has been co-directing Minding the Baby, an interdisciplinary reflective parenting home visiting program for high-risk mothers, infants, and their families, at the Yale Child Study Center and School of Nursing. She is editor, with Dennie Wolf, of Children at Play: Developmental and Clinical Approaches to Meaning and Representation, (Oxford University Press, 1994), with Elliot Jurist and Sharone Bergner, of Mind to Mind: Infant Research, Neuroscience, and Psychoanalysis (Other Press, 2008), and with Jeremy Holmes of the forthcoming Major Work on Attachment (SAGE Publications). She has also been in private practice for thirty years, working with children and adults.

Continuing Education Credits:

The morning lecture (Workshop #13-128-29) is part of the UVM Department of Psychiatry Grand Rounds Series. Attendees will receive 1.25 AMA PRA Category 1 Credits^TM

The University of Vermont College of Medicine is accredited by the Accreditation Council for Continuing Medical Education to provide continuing medical education for physicians. The University of Vermont designates this educational activity for a maximum of 1.25 AMA PRA Category 1 Credits^TM. Physicians should only claim credit commensurate with the extent of their participation in the activity.

The Afternoon Workshop is not accredited for Category 1 CME or CEU Credits.

Application has been made for CEUs for Psychologists, Social Workers, and Mental Health Counselors.

Registration and Program Fees:

No registration is required for the morning program. Attendance and clinical affiliation will be recorded for the afternoon program. The annual Gibbard Lectureship Program is provided at no charge to participants, thanks to donations made to the Bruce A. Gibbard M.D. Lectureship in Psychiatry Fund at the University of Vermont, College of Medicine. To learn more about the Gibbard Lectureship Fund or to make a donation, contact: sarah.keblin@uvm.edu.

Directions to Davis Auditorium:

From the Fletcher Allen Health Center parking garage Level 2 (orange), enter the Ambulatory Care Center (ACC). Once inside, follow the signs to the Medical Education Center. At the snack kiosk, turn left through the double glass doors. Davis Auditorium is on the right.

Directions to Fletcher Allen Health Center Parking Garage:

Map available at: http://www.fletcherallen.org/Quick_Links/mchv_flrplan.html

Questions?

Contact: Jean Pieniadz, Ph.D., UVM Gibbard Committee Chair, at 802-651-7506, or

Committee Members: Brooke Barss, M.D., James Jacobson, M.D., Judith Lewis, M.D., & Debra Lopez, M.D.

How clean is Vermont’s air? What health problems could be linked to the water we drink? What relationships may exist between environmental exposures and cancer?

Vermont’s Environmental Public Health Tracking Program aims to assist policymakers, health professionals, scientists, researchers and others to answer these questions and more. According to the Vermont Public Health Tracking web site, environmental public health tracking brings environmental and public health data together in one place in order to understand how environmental factors play a role in certain illnesses. As the VT Department of Health notes,

For decades, the United States has faced a fundamental gap in understanding how environmental contaminants affect people’s health. The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) is working to close this gap by improving surveillance through the National Environmental Public Health Tracking Network (Tracking Network). The Tracking Network is a dynamic Web-based tool that, for the first time, provides health and environment data in one easy to find location.

Policy makers and public health officials can use the Tracking Network to make critical decisions about where to target environmental public health resources and interventions. Health practitioners and researchers can use the Tracking Network to learn more about health conditions related to the environment, and improve treatment plans. Anyone can use the Tracking Network to find out how the environment may be affecting them, their family’s or community’s health.

The building blocks of the national network are state and local health departments around the country that are funded to build local tracking systems. These systems supply data to the National Tracking Network and address local environmental public health concerns. The tracking programs use their networks every day to improve the health of their communities.

Vermont’s Tracking Program also links you to comparable information from other states and to national data.

Anyone can use the site to search for data about environmental and health topics such as air quality, cancer, lead, drinking water and birth defects. The site also connects users to additional resources on the health and environmental topics. For more information, be sure to visit the site at healthvermont.gov/tracking.

The Dana Medical Library wants to maintain a dynamic and relevant collection of books, journals, and databases for our health sciences patrons at UVM and FAHC. Requests are submitted by faculty, staff, and students.

Each year the Collections Team sits down with the “wish list” of items requested by our users, and after evaluating their price, impact factor, and other evaluative measures, decides which ones to add to our collection.

This year, the Dana Medical Library added the following electronic journals:

Nature Reviews Endocrinology
Journal of Electronic Resources in Medical Libraries
Journal of Visualized Experiments (JoVE)- Clinical & Translational Medicine and
JoVE- Neurosciences
Journal of Strength and Conditioning Research
Journal of Bone & Joint Surgery British edition (new title)

In addition, the Library added another simultaneous user for the title Journal of Pediatric Orthopedics as a result of high numbers of patrons being turned away.

Still under consideration is another segment of the MEDU database, which offers virtual patient cases for use in medical education. CORE provides educational cases designed for use in radiology. Dana Library has subscribed to this resource for trial this month to evaluate its usefulness.

A collection of streaming videos for use with psychiatry clerkship students as well as residents has been also added. It can be found in our catalog under the title Symptom Media.

And, of course, the Library regularly adds book titles– print and eBooks. An up to date list of new books at Dana can always be found at: http://library.uvm.edu/dana/newbooks/index.php/.

Hi, my name is Gary Atwood and I am the Health Sciences Education Librarian here at Dana Medical Library. Prior to UVM, I worked at Springfield College in Springfield, MA as a Reference and Instruction Librarian. I hold a BA in Political Science and an MA in American History from the University of Maine and a MSLIS from Simmons College.

Like all librarians, I have a wide variety of job responsibilities. I provide reference and instruction services to students, faculty, and staff as well as the clinicians at Fletcher Allen Health Care. In addition, I am the liaison to the Department of Nursing, Psychiatry, and Neurological Sciences as well as the College of Medicine’s Clerkship program. I am also involved in expanding the library’s education efforts in areas such as the use of technology in teaching and in teaching online.

In my spare time, I like to read, explore Vermont with my family, and work with our dog Bady. I am also a passionate Liverpool Football Club supporter.  Go Reds!

The current exhibit in Special Collections features postcards that document Stowe’s development as the Ski Capital of the East during the 1940s-1950s. For many years, Newport, Vermont photographer Harry Richardson traveled around Vermont and took thousands of pictures of people, places, and activities. He published many of the images as real photo postcards. The postcards in this exhibit are from a sample book that Richardson may have used to sell his cards to Stowe retailers. The cards promoted Vermont skiing with images of deep snow, downhill descents, modern facilities and traditional landscapes, and above all, happy skiers.