2013 Bruce A. Gibbard Memorial Lecture
Thursday, February 28th, 2013
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:
- Participants will learn the fundamental tenets of attachment and mentalization theory, as these pertain to parent-infant intervention.
- Participants will learn about models and approaches to enhancing attachment and mentalization in young families.
- 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:
- Participants will learn how to define and recognize instances of parental reflective functioning.
- Participants will learn basic techniques for enhancing parental reflective functioning in young parents.
- 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 CreditsTM
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 CreditsTM. 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.