Description:
OPD Points: 5
Learn more about therapeutic intervention with infants, young children and their parents.
Key Learning Objectives / Outcomes:
What are the unique psychological needs of infants? How can psychologists help parents to understand and meet these needs? Jenny Perkel, clinical psychologist and author of the bookBabies in Mind, discusses the emotional and psychological needs of infants and young children, and sheds light on the impact of parenting styles and the parent-infant relationship. Jenny offers clinicians ways of understanding and working with the parent-infant dyad.
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.
