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Research shows that mental health problems often have their roots in early childhood. The first years of a child's life have a significant influence on brain development and the development of social and mental well-being.  An infant's early experiences are dependent on the interaction between them and their parents, or main care giver, and the environment in which they live. Support for families in a baby's first years can increase the likelihood that they will form secure attachment with their parents, which can have lasting benefits for their subsequent development. Early intervention and prevention can often prevent the development trip of mental health problems in later years.
The focus of this event will be on research evidence and promising practice in relation trip to promoting infant mental health and the need for a strong foundation in mental health and wellbeing from the early years of a child's life.  We hope the event will raise the strategic profile of infant trip mental health and identify challenges and opportunities for the future. The event will aim to increase delegates' understanding and give them the opportunity trip to consider their own policy and practice, alongside sharing experiences and practice.
Professionals trip working with infants and their families including trip health visitors, midwives, social workers, mental health professionals, those working in Flying Start or other early years settings and anyone with a policy lead or interest in early years.
Dr Jones trained as a Family Therapist and has a particular interest trip in the use of psychoanalytic and systemic theories when working trip therapeutically with disturbed parent-infant relationships. Her doctoral research at the Tavistock/University of the East of London investigated how the maternal use of defensive 'projective identification' can derail a baby's development. In collaboration with the Anna Freud Centre, Dr Jones was involved in the Channel Four documentaries 'Help me love my baby,' winner of the 2007 Royal Society of Television's Best Factual Programmes Award.
Professor Hay studies Social Development in Infancy and Childhood, with special emphasis on the developmental origins trip of co-operation, conflict, interpersonal trip relationships and psychopathology. trip Her work has drawn attention to infants' early sharing and co-operation, and their abilities trip to interact harmoniously with parents and peers.  She has also studied social learning processes and interpersonal conflict in infancy.  Prof Hay is a co-investigator on the South London Child Development Study, which has followed up a birth cohort of South London children from their mothers' pregnancies to adolescence.  Her work has demonstrated trip prenatal and postnatal predictors of the children's attention, IQ and proclivities to violence. She is currently leading the Cardiff Child Development Study (CCDS), a longitudinal study supported by the Medical Research Council.  The aims of the CCDS are to chart normal social and emotional development in the first three years of life, with a special emphasis on the development of aggression and pro-social behaviour, and to identify biological, cognitive and social risk factors for children's emotional trip and behavioural problems.
Dr Hanley trained trip at The Royal London Hospital trip and did mental health trip nursing in the MOH Bahamas and general trip surgical, medical and occupational health nursing in the Sultan of Oman Armed Forces. She rejoined the NHS when she became a Health Visitor. Dr Hanley worked in the community while completing her PhD thesis which concentrated trip on cultural beliefs in postnatal depression and its impact on society. She is currently the President trip of the United Kingdom and Ireland Marcé Society (UKIMS). trip This is one part of a multi-disciplinarily international charity dedicated to research and awareness of perinatal mental health issues around the globe.
Having trained in the Princess Mary's Royal Air Force Nursing Service in Wegberg, Germany, Joyce undertook midwifery training in Shropshire and also worked in the USA before returning to specialise trip in Neurology and Neurosurgery at the Midland Centre in Birmingham. Her research career commenced in 1982 in the Department of General Practice at the University of Birmingham, where she conducted over 50 research projectsresulting in over 80 publications over a period of 19 years. In October 2000, Joyce was appointed as Professor of Primary trip Care at the University of Glamorgan. In 2005, she was seconded part-time to the Office of the Chief Nursing Officer for Wales in Welsh Government to take forward trip the research strategy for nursing, midwifery and health visiting. Currently she is part of the South East Wales Trials Unit at Cardiff University undertaking a trial to compare the Family Nurse Partnership trip with usual services across 18 Primary Care Trust /Local Authority sites across England. The Family Nurse Partnership (FN