Infant Mental Health

Establishing a secure parent-child attachment relationship during the first three years of a child’s life is fundamental for lifelong emotional wellbeing and essential for enjoying satisfying relationships throughout the lifespan. This one-day workshop will delve into:

• The development of the baby’s first attachment relationship to his most important caregiver

• The impact of early caregiving on the baby’s developing brain

• Infant and toddler distress and how parents respond to them

• Why parental reflective capacity is so important for secure attachment

• How you can incorporate of the tenets of attachment theory into your clinical practice.

• Ways to develop parents’ capacity to understand and care for their baby that promote secure infant attachment.

The course delivery provides a mixture of evidence-based information, group-work, videos and interactive work.

• Do you want to help infants develop secure relationships with their caregivers?

• Do you want to help caregivers share a sensitive, affectionate and empathic relationship with their babies?

Then this is the workshop for you.

Terms and Conditions for Tresillian Health Professional Continuing Education Courses

Upon enrolment, a confirmation email will be generated by the online booking system.  When paying for courses, a receipt will also be generated.  Please check your spam if you don’t receive a receipt and/or enrolment confirmation.  For any ongoing issues, please email [email protected]

All course fees pertain to both virtual and face to face delivery.

When enrolling, please ensure that a correct mailing address is provided.  If mailed items are returned to Tresillian due to an incorrect mailing address being provided, the applicant will be required to pay postage costs for remailing.

In the event a course is cancelled, enrolled staff will be advised via email [email protected]

Refund policy

Course fees will be refunded (or transferable to a future course) if notification is received no later than two weeks prior to course commencement. 

Course fees will be refunded 50% if notification is received within the two weeks prior to course commencement.  Course fees will not be transferable to future courses.

In unforeseen and exceptional circumstances where an applicant is unable to advise of inability to attend within the desired time frame, please contact the Director, Workforce Learning and Development via [email protected]

Cancellation of courses by Tresillian

In the event of the cancellation of a course, enrolled staff will be notified by email.  Enrolled staff will have the option of a full refund, or transfer of the enrolment to a future course.

Contact details

For further information, please contact (02) 9432 4015 or email [email protected]