Concurrent Session 4D
Tracks
D
Saturday, October 12, 2019 |
2:00 PM - 3:00 PM |
Hamersley Room |
Details
Theme: Mother Baby Group Programs
Speaker
Susan Morgan
Clinicial Nurse Consultant
Karitane
Parent-Child Interaction for Toddlers (PCIT-T): An attachment-based parenting program for children with disruptive behaviours
2:00 PM - 2:20 PMBiography
Susan Morgan MMH, is a registrated Nurse who graduated in 1977 and supplemented her qualifications with a Masters in Perinatal Infant Mental Health. She has worked extensively with parents, infants and toddlers for over 30 years and has a strong dedication to working within an attachment framework.She is currently a Clinicial Nurse Consultant at Karitane, Sydney and a level II Trainer with PCIT International.
Gillian Ennis
Coordinator Of Mental Health Nursing
Women And Newborn Health Service
Evaluation of a nurse led playgroup in a Mother Baby Unit - perceptions of discharged mothers
2:20 PM - 2:40 PMBiography
Gillian Ennis is the Coordinator for Mental Health Nursing at Womens and Newborn Health Service. Gillian trained as a mental health nurse in London, UK where she worked for over 20 years before migrating with her family to Perth in 2006. During her time nursing in London she undertook a number of positions including a ward manager for a thirty bedded, authorised, acute adult mental health facility, a community nurse for the elderly and in 1999, her interest in perinatal mental health was ignited when she commenced work as a perinatal community mental health nurse.
Following settling in Perth she started work as at King Edward Memorial Hospital Mother Baby Unit prior to its opening in July 2007 and helped develop the initial governance structure. She has worked in many different roles at king Eddies but her passion always remains with perinatal metal health.
Sharon Cooke
Service Coordinator
Mother-Baby Nurture
Mother-Baby Nurture: An Attachment Focussed Group Intervention for Reducing Parenting Stress and Improving Maternal Mentalising
2:40 PM - 3:00 PMBiography
Sharon Cooke is the service coordinator for Mother-Baby Nurture - a government-funded group intervention that focusses on strengthening the infant-mother attachment relationship. Sharon trained in midwifery, child health and perinatal and infant mental health. She has undertaken two research projects evaluating the Mother-Baby Nurture programme. Sharon is captivated by the relational dance between the parent and infant, and the way past patterns of relating within family are passed forward, yet rarely recognised or talked about. Her preferred place of work is beside the parent-infant dyad as they begin to notice, and gradually find their rhythm.
Session Chair
Elizabeth Izett
Snr Clinical Psychologist
CAMHS/ The Elizabeth Clinic
