Professional Development
The following affiliated organizations offer training for professionals in the programs offered at Well Baby Center
Center for Mindful Parenting: Mindful Parenting Groups are innovative, experiential groups for parents and their infants or toddlers ages three months to three+ years. This pioneering group intervention provides a unique, developmentally-based approach to promoting sensitivity, flexibility, and mindfulness in communications between parent and child, focusing on enhancing the attachment relationship. Mindful Parenting Groups proactively target parental reflective functioning, which research has demonstrated is predictive of child attachment security. Mental health professionals may receive certification training to facilitate these unique groups through the Center for Mindful Parenting.
Diane Reynolds, MFT, Founder/ Co-Director 310-766-2360
Wendy Denham, PhD, Co-Director 310-657-6800
The Center for Parenting Studies (CPS): is comprised of mental health professionals, community leaders, and community agencies working together to promote the healthy growth and development of children and families. We believe community support is essential for well functioning families, the basic unit of all societies. CPS is committed to an interdisciplinary approach to child, parent and family mental health services.www.n-c-p.org/community-parent.asp
CPS is affiliated with the following programs: The Reflective Parenting Program which offers Reflective Parenting Workshops, an innovative approach to parenting. Individuals learn to be strong, effective parents while remaining sensitive and responsive to their child’s needs. The program helps parents successfully navigate and repair the disruptions that inevitably occur within the parent-child relationship. We help parents understand the often subtle, nonverbal cues that accompany a child’s behavior -- enabling parents to see their child's behavior as meaningful communications. this skill facilitates healthy development and secure attachments. The Reflective Parenting Program also trains mental health professionals who then take this exciting and successful program to the families they serve.
Paulene Popek, Ph.D., Co-Director
John Grienenberger, Ph.D., Co-Director
www.reflectiveparentingprogram.org
Thrive Infant-Family Program is committed to understanding the emotional life of infants. This interdisciplinary program provides education for expectant families and prenatal groups, and emotional support for parents of premature or critically ill infants. The program trains and educates professionals from the community.
Julie McCaig, Ph.D., Co-Director
Paulene Popek, Ph.D., Co-Director