Infant Mental Health
World Association for Infant Mental Health - Finland - WAIMH's mission promotes education, research, and study of the effects of mental, emotional and social development during infancy on later normal and psychopathological development through international and interdisciplinary cooperation, publications, affiliate associations, and through regional and biennial congresses devoted to scientific, educational, and clinical work with infants and their caregivers.
Life Course Health Development research
Life Course Research Network (LCRN) at UCLA
LCRN’s life-course-health-development-theory page
Life course health development: an integrated framework for developing health, policy, and research. Halfon. (2002). Alt URL
Life course health development: A new approach for addressing upstream determinants of health and spending. Halfon. (2009). Washington: Expert Voices, National Institute for Health Care Management Foundatio. Intro Full text
The Power of Community Building to Improve Health PPT 2008 Halfon
Life Course Health Development - Perinatal Network of Monroe County- PNMC
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Mindsight w/ Dr. Dan Siegel
Mindsight Institue - Dr. Dan Siegel founded the Mindsight Institute, an educational center devoted to promoting insight, compassion, and empathy in individuals, families, organizations, and communities. With a scientific emphasis on the mind and well-being, we focus on the growth of healthy people who can nurture a kinder society. Through the Mindsight Institute's worldwide Online Courses, Lecture Series and Colloquium, individuals learn to harness the power of science and the wisdom of reflection to create an approach to health that focuses on a triangle of well-being: our minds, relationships, and brains. We welcome you to the Mindsight Institute and look forward to providing you with engaging and enriching experiences.
Goldie Hawn supports Dan Siegel - TedMED - (19 min) - Goldie Hawn, along with Dan Siegel, talks about the power of mindfulness to help children focus, battle stress and control negative emotions.
Mutual Recovery
Creative Practice as Mutual Recovery: Connecting Communities for Mental Health and Wellbeing - Project page of University of Wolverhampton, UK. This highly collaborative AHRC-funded study aims to examine how creative practice in the arts and humanities can promote the kinds of connectedness and reciprocity that support 'mutual recovery' in terms of mental health and well-being.
Putting the humanity back into healthcare - The initiative builds on the work of Nottingham Health Humanities and its International Health Humanities Network and will centre on the concept of 'mutual recovery' – promoting social, cultural and emotional connectivity between patients, professionals and informal carers to gain mental health benefits for all parties involved in health, social or adult education delivery. The study comes as part of a quiet revolution to challenge the overreliance of pharmaceutical and psychotherapy solutions which critics argue have not delivered the step-change needed to support mental health patients...." (2013).
Mutual Recovery - a new project - We’ve called it mutual recovery because there are many ways in which recovering from mental health problems is a collective process, where service users, professionals, facilitators, volunteers and carers often work together and derive collective benefits too. The project involves several initiatives, namely: Making music for mental health; Birth Shock; People Talking: Digital Dialogues for Mutual Recovery; Clay works for mutual recovery. Our central hypothesis is that creative practice, for example, in visual arts, music, storytelling or sculpture, could be a powerful tool for bringing together a diverse range of social actors and communities of practice in mental health, to establish and connect them in a mutual or reciprocal fashion to enhance mental health and well-being. (2013).
Festival with arts in mind - Australia - One of the items on the program that caught my eye was “Dramatic Recovery”. On the surface, it’s a series of original short plays created by the Mental Health Foundation ACT’s Imperfectly Sane Productions and an opportunity for actors and audience members to stand up and take part in a mutual-recovery process. All the actors have experienced mental illness and, together, they’ve woven their stories together into works of fiction based on real-life. The unusual part of “Dramatic Recovery” is that audience members can take to the stage, replacing one of the actors for the moment.
West Coast Mental Health Network on Facebook - strives to provide a setting where people who have received mental health treatment can access information, referral services and education, receive mutual support, share experiences and promote mutual recovery. Vancouver, British Columbia.
Relational Neurobiology
Humans are hardwired for connection? Neurobiology 101 for parents, educators, practitioners and the general public (2010). Wellesley Centers for Women, Wellesley College.
Book - Art Therapy Relational Neurobiology Studio Art Therapy Approaches - This book explores the clinical application and learning of art therapy relational neurobiology (ATR-N) practices. It focuses on CREATE, an integrative ATR-N model that covers six domains: Creativity in Action; Relational Resonance; Emotional Expressive Communication; Adaptive Responses; Transformation; and, Empathy. Each chapter covers a specific CREATE-ATR-N subject along with an associated media and provides clearly explained art therapy strategies that can be implemented in the classroom or applied to personal art making or client work. This unique approach marries studio art practices with interpersonal neurobiology (INB), freeing art therapists from theoretically biased frameworks and enabling them to optimize their understanding of the felt art therapy experience as well as the conceptualization and practice of their clinical skills. An authoritative text on ATR-N practices, this book will be of interest to clinicians, art therapy professors and students. (Aug. 2013).
Resilience
Positive Mental Health: Resilience - Adolescent Health Highlight brief from Child Trends. (Jan. 2013).
Building Resilience in Children and Youth Dealing with Trauma - SAMHSA webpage. (2011).
Resilience in mental health: linking psychological and neurobiological perspectives - Rutten, et al. (2013).
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