The Infant-Parent Institute, Inc. - Infant Mental Health

Over the past two decades, the Institute has conducted courses and training seminars across North America. We have trained more than 2,200 clinicians in a specific method of assessment and intervention with troubled families and their babies.

Since 1981, Mr. Trout has offered an intensive four-day clinical course, designed principally for clinicians (but open to people from all allied fields). The Course has been brought to universities, clinics and other sites around the U.S. and Canada, and is well known for its use of the case-study method of presenting material. Participants gain a solid grounding in attachment research, and an introduction to clinical principles of assessment and treatment with troubled infant-parent dyads.

Most of the courses offered by the Institute are portable and can be customized to various settings. From three- and four-day courses to shorter presentations, please call us to discuss your preferred format. Possible topics include:

•	The nature of human attachments in infancy — how they work, what difference it makes if attachments are absent and/or conflicted.
•	Attachment in the life cycle; how early experience is manifested in later life.
•	A model for conducting home-based assessment of troubled infant-parent dyads.
•	A model for home-based psychotherapeutic intervention with troubled infant-parent dyads.
•	Separation and loss in infancy: short- and long-term results of infant hospitalization, foster care, adoption, institutional daycare, parental death or parental divorce.
•	Special challenges to attachment: how to nurture families of terminally ill or disabled babies/toddlers.
•	Reproductive loss: the impact on mothers, fathers and siblings of miscarriage, stillbirth, SIDS, neonatal death, death of one twin, infertility, reversed adoption, and induced abortion.
•	The development of emotional expressiveness in boys; how boys become men, and men become fathers.
•	The impact of domestic violence on prenates, infants and toddlers.

This lecture series is sponsored by the Center for Men and Masculinity and is dedicated to the 20th Anniversary of The Infant-Parent Institute. The lectures are intended for all audiences and are given by Martin Srajek, Ph.D., LCSW. Click here for additional information.

DATES:

March 26th, 2007: Fragile Man—A Look at the Hidden Vulnerabilities of Men

May 28th, 2007: Men’s Isolation: Heroism and Desperation—Looking for a Middle

June 25th, 2007: Men and the Male Body—Neglect and Obsession as a Way Of Life

October 29th, 2007: Men and Friendship—The lone hero and the Erosion of Friendship

February 25th, 2008: Men and Their Daughters—Utterly Useless . . . Utterly Indispensable

In addition to courses and seminars, the Institute offers long distance clinical supervision. This program is presented as an option in high-quality supervisory attention for infant mental health clinicians who have a powerful investment in the optimal development of infants and their families, but who feel isolated in their clinical endeavors and without support or supervision in their daily walk with families in trouble.

Clinical Traineeship

Since the early 1980s, Mr. Trout has accepted one experienced professional each year (from pediatric medicine and psychology, special education, social work, nursing, etc.) for 10 months of intensive individual supervision, practicum experiences and seminars. The traineeship begins in September and most trainees are able to complete requirements by late June of the following year. Basic traineeship requirements can be met in one Institute day per week if the trainee has access to referrals for the clinical practicum in his/her home area, allowing a trainee to continue employment.

To receive more detailed information on any of the Institute’s services, please click here for appropriate contact information.