Online Talk for the Oxford Parent Infant Project (OXPIP)
Program Location
via ZOOM
Program Date
Friday 27th November 2020
1pm to 3pm BST
Program Presenter
PEMA™ creator Dana Shai Ph.D.
Program Objectives
Dr. Shai will present an empirical and clinical overview of her work specializing in Parental Embodied Mentalizing (PEM; Shai & Belsky, 2011). PEM is a theoretical and clinical approach that focuses on nonverbal relationship between parents and their children and on the parental capacity to understand the infant's mental state based on the infant’s whole-body kinesthetic expressions and how they adjust their own kinesthetic patterns accordingly (Shai & Belsky, 2011). Research shows that PEM predicts emotional, cognitive and social development and is associated with several parental factors as co-parenting and parental stress. PEMATM is a clinical assessment tool based on the study of PEM. It is used to measure frequencies of embodied protective and risk factors in high and low risk parent–infant dyads. Dana will provide an overview of parental mentalizing and introduce how PEMATM can be applied in clinical practice and research.
Program Host
OXPIP
OXPIP (Oxford Parent Infant Project) tackles some of society's most challenging issues by helping parents and their babies to form strong and loving relationships.
OXPIP offers intensive therapeutic help to parents and their babies in the first two years, in Oxfordshire and surrounding areas.
We support families by working with parents and infant together, to build on the positive, boost parental confidence, and help the parents be led by the needs of the baby.
Please see OXPIP flyer for details.