Early Trauma and the Importance of Early Relationships
Duration: 30 mins
Publication Date: 25 Jul 2022
Next Review Date: 25 Jul 2025
DOI: 10.13056/acamh.20737
Description
In this podcast, we are joined by Sally Hogg, Deputy CEO at the Parent Infant Foundation, to discuss early trauma and the importance of early relationships.
Learning Objectives
1. Details about the 1001 days movement, which she coordinates, and details what it is about the first 1001 days of a child’s life that is so critical.
2. Impact of Adverse Childhood Experiences on mental and physical health and explores why we should be especially concerned about adversity that occurs early in a child’s life.
3. How early trauma impacts emotional, behavioural, cognitive, and social functioning, as well as tells us more about the importance of nurturing parent/infant relationships, and how its presence can help a child to be more resilient to negative events.
4. How the relationship between babies and their parents can be strengthened, what her message is to CAMH professionals in terms of the role they can play, and her message to policymakers in terms of what they should be doing.
5. Tips on how to reach those parents where there is disorganised attachment, who don’t access services, and how to signpost those families to services.
