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All About Minds: Infants, Parents & Service
Providers; Considering Multiple Perspectives
in Early Intervention
Early childhood interventionists consider multiple perspectives when assessing and assisting parent-child interaction.  Parents may have difficulty “seeing” the child as a developing person and may derive little pleasure from their daily activities.  This workshop lays the foundation for the professional’s use of multiple perspectives in assessment and intervention and the “sharing of minds” that is essential to effective early intervention. 

The morning session describes the multiple perspectives of infant, parent, and service provider and how they inform the goals and work of early intervention.  The afternoon session uses case examples to examine how interventionists can use “sharing of minds” in their work. 

Training objectives advance key competencies for MAIECMH endorsement

Monday, July 13, 2009
Foundations and Principles*
8:30-11:30 p.m.
Application and Intervention*
12:30-3:30 p.m.
Maple Grove Community Center
12951 Weaver Lake Rd, Maple Grove, MN 55369

Presented by: Developmental Partnerships, LLC

Scott Harman, MSW, LICSW, IMH-E® (IV)
Scott D. Harman is a clinical social worker overseeing program and professional development for St. David’s Center for Child Development & Family Services in Minnetonka, Minnesota.  He currently teaches in the Infant and Early Childhood Mental Heath Certificate Program at the University of Minnesota.  His professional interests include infant mental health, child development, and early and preventative interventions. Scott is a consultant to home visiting programs in Hennepin County and greater Minnesota.  He was a 2002-03 Leadership Fellow with the Bush Foundation and studied at the Infant-Parent and Early Childhood Group Therapy Programs at the Jewish Board of Family and Children services in New York City. 

Susan Schultz, Ph.D., LP, LICSW, IMH-E® (IV)
Susan K. Schultz has a private psychotherapy practice in Edina, Minnesota offering infant, child, adolescent and parent mental health services.   In 2003 she completed a three year course of study in infant mental health and clinical training in infant parent psychotherapy. She is on the Professional Staff of the Children’s Hospitals and Clinics of Minnesota and as a consultant there developed an infant observation training project with the Neonatal Intensive Care Unit social workers.  She has developed curricula for professional development in infant mental health and currently teaches in the University of Minnesota’s Infant and Early Childhood Mental Health Certificate Program.  

Carol Siegel, Ph.D., LP, IMH-E® (IV)
Carol F. Siegel is a clinical psychologist in Minneapolis, Minnesota who sees parents and young children in her private practice.  Her primary clinical focus is  parenting and issues encountered by parents with challenging histories.  From 1999 to 2005 Carol was the clinical supervisor of the Infant Toddler Program at Washburn Child Guidance Center.  Her clinical training included an internship at the Infant Parent Program of the University of California, San Francisco.  She is a consultant to  home-visiting programs around the state and offers training on high-risk families, attachment, early childhood mental health, and prevention of abuse and neglect.  She is an instructor in the Infant and Early Childhood Mental Health Certificate Program at the University of Minnesota.

*We highly recommend that participants enroll in both the morning and afternoon sessions of the early childhood workshops. Those who are only able to attend a half day should sign up for the morning session as the afternoon session builds upon the morning presentation.  

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