Description:
OPD Points: 5
Gain an understanding of the link between psychology and genetics
Key Learning Objectives / Outcomes:
Recent research shows that mental health – emotions, behaviour and personality are strongly influenced by genetics. This talk explains the complex link between the genes and psychopathology, with a strong focus on the early years of life. The 'orchid and dandelion' genetic concept is discussed as well as the 'differential susceptibility to environmental influences' in relation to emotional and behavioural problems in children. This talk reveals why psychological interventions, parental guidance and constructive improvements to a child's environment are so essential and which children benefit the most from these interventions. It is relevant to all psychotherapists as well as to anyone involved in childcare or other therapies with children.??The talk has 15 multiple choice questions. 70% is needed to pass, you have three tries.
Presenter / Provider:
Jenny Perkel
Presenter Qualifications:
Jenny Perkel, author of Babies in Mind, is a clinical psychologist, mother, trained nursing sister and midwife. Jenny works in private practice in Cape Town, South Africa, offering psychotherapy to adults, play therapy with young children, parent-infant psychotherapy and parental guidance.Jenny is the managing editor of the professional journal,Psychoanalytic Psychotherapy in South Africa,and a member and past chairperson (2011-2012) of the Western Cape Association for Infant Mental Health. She has published dozens of articles about babies, children and parenting and she is the author of a children's book, Streets of Jewels.
