Event Description

Children’s Hospital & Research Center Oakland, Every Child Counts – First 5 Alameda County and California Institute of Intregal Studies Somatic Psychology Department present
Regulation, Attachment and Emotional Development—Part 2 An On-going Clinical Education Series in Infant and Early Childhood Mental Health

Relational psychophysiology: physiological dimensions of dyadic states of consciousness and potential applications to psychotherapy research
Edward Z. Tronick, PhD

Ed Tronick, PhD, is a leader in the field of Infant Parent Mental Health and for the past decades has been among the preeminent researchers of infant parent interaction and child development. Ed has researched and written extensively about cross-cultural patterns of child rearing; coping, stress and resilience; the developmental impact of drug-exposure; maternal depression and infant development, and is among the foremost researchers of the mutual regulation-dysregulation-repair process using the “Still Face” experimental design which to developed. He was a member of the Process of Change Study Group and continues to be interested in the implications of early development research for the practice of adult psychotherapy. Dr. Tronick’s current research with Jacob Ham PhD focuses on the area of Relational Psychophysiology. In this research they measure cardiac and skin conductance variables simultaneously in mothers and infants during interaction, and discuss how this work relates to our theory on dyadically expanded states of consciousness and consider how their results might inform understandings of the psychotherapy process and methods for psychotherapy research. In this daylong program Dr. Tronick will present his infant-parent interaction model, introduce his new work and discuss applications of his work to the current practice of early intervention professionals attending the program. We eagerly invite you to participate in what we expect to be a profound day of learning and thinking together with this dynamic writer and researcher. Recommended Readings: Edward Z. Tronick, The Neurobehavioral and Social Emotional Development of Infants and Children (Norton Series on Interpersonal Neurobiology) W. W. Norton; (July 31, 2007)

For location and registration information, contact Lorraine Watts at (510) 428-3407 or lowatts@mail.cho.org. For program information, contact Mary Claire Heffron at (510) 428-8425 or mheffron@mail.cho.org.