‘BEHAVIOURAL SIGNS OF AUTISM IN INFANTS’

The School of Infant Mental Health recently celebrated a very successful training weekend in collaboration with the charity International Pre-autism Network (ipAn) who sponsored the event held at the Royal Free Hospital. This weekend training was ‘Early behavioural signs of autism’ which provided an insight into a specific care pathway of early intervention surrounding infant mental health and parent infant psychotherapy combined with the latest neuroscience research.

The two speakers Dr Stella Acquarone and Professor David Foreman who have pioneered and developed clinical, diagnostic and research pathways relating to this field, provided the audience of 150 people with a rich tapestry of material to absorb and digest.

During the weekend delegates from a spectrum of multi-disciplinary health and educational professions were offered an opportunity to listen, explore and discuss the potential of early intervention with autism and infant mental health. Many were surprised to hear that there is the potential to use preventative psychoanalytical interventions in order to alleviate the heartache that is so often caused with the helpless experience of a family with an autistic child.

The School of Infant Mental Health want to thank all delegates that engaged in this event which allowed for networking opportunities and relational exchange of professions and partnerships. These rich exchanges of communication between professionals can never occur without an attendance of delegates who open themselves up to possibilities.

‘Thank you for the insight provided by speakers who provided hope in an area of clinical work where it is often touching hopelessness – inspirational’. Psychotherapist