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THE PARENT INFANT CLINIC
What is our clinic ? It is a private Clinic staffed by Child and Adult Psychotherapists and other professionals specializing in infant mental health. The Clinic provides assessment and treatment to parents with infants and toddlers and consultations to primary care givers.The approach is psychodynamic.The clinic is also a forum for education.
What are the Goals?
"Our clinic aims to help parents understand"
to help parents understand the stress and difficulties they experience in raising their infant or toddler.
to think with them of alternative ways of managing the problem.
to offer consultation to professionals regarding methods for working with particular parents and young children.to promote knowledge and awareness of infant mental health.
Who can receive this service?
Any parent or family with a child under five years of age who:
- is worried that their baby is not eating well or growing as expected.
- has a baby or child experiencing sleeping problems,
- difficulties around separation or long and frequent temper tantrums.
- finds their baby unusually quiet or uninterested in them.
- feels their baby is too fussy or difficult to comfort.
- is concerned about how active their child is.
- feels burdened by the demands of parenthood.
- has a baby with developmental problems that place special emotional burdens on the parents.
What services are offered?
Our Programmes
...for infants...we work to meet your infants needs.
Parents and their baby are assessed both individually and as part of the family. We offer both short term and longer term therapeutic treatments, as well as specialised intensive treatments. The length of treatment necessary is dependent upon the infant's age, severity of the parent's concerns and ability of their baby to assimilate change.
...for children...we provide a Child Focus Consultancy
Child Focus Consultancy is a branch of the Parent Infant Clinic specialising in offering assessment, treatment and consultation when there are concerns about children and adolescents. We work closely with parents, concerned professionals and the children and young people themselves to address worrying behaviours, identify underlying causes and
treat emotional disturbances. Issues we have successfully worked with include: low self esteem, eating distress, bullying, bereavement, aggressive behaviours, anxiety, family breakdown and depression.
...for parents...we offer early support.
Parents who have worries about their infant or child can contact us for an informal discussion in order to assist them in deciding whether or not an assessment could be beneficial. Support can be offered to parents around: parenting strategies, identifying and responding to their child's emotional state, and managing their own emotions.
...for professionals...we offer training.
Professionals who work with infants or children can arrange for consultations about specific issues or infants, or on going supervision from our team of experienced therapists.
Our Team
Our multidisciplinary team is made of clinicians with a wide range of backgrounds and experience. Their clinical disciplines include: Parent-Infant Psychotherapy, Child Psychotherapy, Adult Psychotherapy, Developmental Paediatrics, Neurological Paediatrics, Developmental Therapy, Physiotherapy, Occupational Therapy, and Speech Therapy. Such a range of expertise enables us to address every sphere of child development -- emotional, cognitive, physical and social. Skilled and experienced, we use the arts and play to engage the family and as a therapeutic medium. Psychoanalytic thinking underpins all of our work.
(For more information see ABOUT US / clinical team for staff biographies)