Welcome

The Infant-Parent Institute specializes in clinical services, professional training and research related to the optimal development of infants and their families. Michael Trout, founder and director of the Institute, is a graduate of the Infant Mental Health Training Program at the University of Michigan under Professor Selma Fraiberg.

Associates at the Institute work with children in the foster care and adoption systems. They also conduct divorce mediation involving young children and treat adults whose depression, marital problems or parenting struggles have risen out of conflicted experiences in the first few years of life.  Parent support and guidance groups, parent coaching, and training for Child Care Center/Family Child Care Providers and Educators are also available.

More than 2,200 clinicians across North America have participated in our training programs. In addition, we have developed 14 training videos that are used in clinics, homes, agencies and universities around the world.

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NEW WORKSHOP

FIRST U.S. TRAINING IN PRENATAL BONDING (BA)

“THE SOUL’S CORD:
A METHOD FOR ENCOUNTERING THE UNBORN” 

A NEW STRATEGY FROM EUROPEAN PSYCHOANALYSIS FOR FACILITATING BOTH ATTACHMENT AND DIFFERENTIATION WITH THE PRENATE

NEW PRODUCT - Click here to
find out more about Baby Verses

By Michael Trout
Published by the
Infant-Parent Institute
112 Pages
ISBN 978-0-9761546-1-7
$22.95 Hardcover, with CD
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Visit Building
Healthy Families
to learn more about
The Jonathon Letters

By Michael Trout
and Lori Thomas
Published by the
Infant-Parent Institute
192 Pages
ISBN 0-9761546-0-9
$22.95 Print Format
$29.95 Audio Format

NEW PRODUCT - Click here to find out more about The Hope-Filled Parent


By Michael Trout
$14.95 Booklet and CD
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