Rupture and Repair (Early Relationships)

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Tavistock Relationships

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Rupture and Repair

Early Relationships and Mental Health Series: Session Five

With Tessa Baradon

Tessa Baradon is a Consultant Child, Adolescent and Parent-Infant Psychotherapist and co-author of The Practice of Psychoanalytic Parent-Infant Psychotherapy. Tessa will deliver the fifth talk in our Early Relationships and Mental Health Series.

Baradon’s talk will focus on the concept of rupture and repair in therapist-parent-infant relationships, drawing on research from pioneers including Stern, Trevarthen, Tronick, and Beebe. These researchers highlight how parent-infant relationships are co-constructed in micro-events of interaction that move between matching, mismatching, and repair. Some mismatches create ruptures that may negatively affect the relationship. She will discuss how ruptures, which inevitably occur in infant mental health practice, can be repaired through internal and interactive processes. Using video material, she will demonstrate how the processes that cause ruptures also set the stage for repair, with insights relevant to all participants.

Tessa trained in Public Health at Hadassah Medical School in Jerusalem, where she founded Israel’s first Pregnancy Advisory Service. After moving to the UK, she trained in child psychotherapy and psychoanalysis at the Anna Freud Centre, where she pioneered the psychoanalytic parent-infant psychotherapy model, now used globally. She also trains, supervises, and publishes widely on the topic.

If you are interested in attending the entire Early Relationships and Mental Health Series please visit the webpage Early Relationships and Mental Health Series-Courses (trtogether.com)

This series is developed in collaboration with the National Centre for Supervision of Parent-Infant Relationships (NCSPIR). NCSPIR offers clinical supervision to practitioners and their supervisors working with parents and infants as part of the UK government’s Family Hubs and Start for Life program, which aims to improve early years services for families with children aged 0 to 2.

For full information see https://trtogether.com

For information about Tavistock Relationships visit https://tavistockrelationships.org

For information about NCSPIR visit https://ncspir.org.uk

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