Date/Time
Date(s) - January 29
10:00 am - 11:30 am
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January 29, 2026 10 am – 11:30 am
Preterm birth is a profound early relational and developmental experience that disproportionately impacts families facing systemic inequities. This workshop invites participants to approach prematurity through an infant mental health and infant–parent mental health (IPMH) framework, with particular attention to the emotional experience of both the parent and the pre-term infant, and to the central role of relationship in early regulation and development from the NICU into early childhood.
Participants will be supported in imagining what it may feel like for parents and their infants to navigate early medical trauma, prolonged separation, and the sensory intensity of the NICU, and how these experiences shape infants’ emerging capacities for co-regulation, self-regulation, and attachment.
Instructors: Lisa White LCSW-R and Michelly Garcia-Arroyo, LMSW
