Parent-Infant Center
The Parent-Infant Center (PIC) provides multidisciplinary assessment and treatment of at-risk pregnant women and parents (adolescents and adults) and their children between the ages of birth to three. The Center identifies parents who exhibit risk factors for maladaptive parent-infant/toddler relationship, child abuse or neglect. Risk factors include parental mental illness, such as post-partum depression, parental history of trauma, teen and single parenthood, and family lack of social and financial support. In addition, the Parent-infant Center identifies infants/toddlers who are exhibiting delays in the areas of cognitive, physical, and social-emotional development.
The goals of the Center are to decrease the risk of child abuse and neglect, facilitate the development of a healthier attachment between caretakers and their infants/toddlers and to promote healthy child development. The primary focus is to provide Parent-Infant/Toddler psychotherapy in the form of dyadic treatment or dyadic group treatment. The emphasis of treatment is on the caretaker-child relationship, which includes all types of primary caretakers including pregnant mothers, mothers, fathers, grandparents and foster parents.
Our interventions are aimed to facilitate caretakers’ better attunement to a child’s emotional needs; heightened sensitivity and predictable responses to their child’s cues; increased understanding of the impact of family dynamics; greater awareness of a parent’s contribution to the parent-child relationship and social support and psycho-education around issues of child development.
The Parent-Infant Center also provides individual child and parent psychotherapy, and family therapy. Psychopharmacological consultation is provided when necessary to treat postpartum depression and other serious disorders. The Parent-Infant Center works collaboratively with daycares, schools, social service organizations, and other community and mental health agencies.
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