This webinar continues to explore infant mental health and builds on the content of the previous webinar Keeping the Babies in Mind. After a quick review of basic infant mental health principles, the webinar will provide an overview of the development and screening of social and emotional development; trauma and its impact on the brain and subsequent development; and how to support mentalization in parents and ourselves as child life professionals.

Note: Although not mandatory, a prior viewing of Keeping the Babies in Mind is strongly encouraged before the upcoming webinar.

Jo-Anne Robertson, MPH is a former certified child life specialist who worked in both the USA and Canada with chronically ill children of all ages. Later she pursued her passions of infant mental health and optimal early child development at a population level and recently, Jo-Anne has been hired as a program manager with the Infant Mental Health Promotion team at SickKids Hospital in Toronto

5 Sample Questions

The capacities that make up infant mental health include all except which of the following?

  • A. Ability to form close relationships
  • B. Ability to explore the environment
  • C. Ability to experience, regulate and express emotion
  • D. All of the above are capacities of infant mental health

What type of attachment is most affiliated with later psychopathology?

  • A. Disorganized
  • B. Insecure
  • C. Avoidant
  • D. Ambivalent or Resistant

What are the three levels of stress for a young child?

  • A. Positive, tolerable, terrified
  • B. Positive, negative, terrified
  • C. Positive, tolerable, toxic

All of the following are factors that need to be considered by caregivers when responding to their stressed infant except?

  • A. Sensitive
  • B. Timely
  • C. Consistent
  • D. Satiability
  • E.
    Appropriate
  • F.
    Appropriate

To reset during stressful times by breathing, your breath should be longer on the exhale than inhale to get the most benefit.

  • A. True
  • B. False

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