Dr Baylin received his doctorate in clinical psychology from Peabody College of Vanderbilt University in 1981. He has been working in the mental health field for 35 years. For the past fifteen years, while continuing his clinical practice, he has immersed himself in the study of neurobiology and in teaching mental health practitioners about the brain. He has given numerous workshops for mental health professionals on “Putting the Brain in Therapy.” Several years ago, Dr. Baylin began a collaborative relationship with Daniel Hughes, a leader in the field of attachment-focused therapy. Their book, Brain Based Parenting, was released by Norton Press in the spring of 2012 as part of the Norton series on Interpersonal Neurobiology. Dr. Baylin has delivered keynote sessions at international conferences and has also given numerous workshops both internationally and regionally within the US
Dr Dan Hughes has been a psychologist specializing in the treatment of children and youth with severe emotional and behavioural problems. His work has focused on children and youth who experienced developmental trauma and attachment disorganization along with their foster and adoptive families. Dan has borrowed heavily from attachment theory and neurobiology research to develop a model of treatment that he calls Dyadic Developmental Psychotherapy. DDP is a non-directive yet directive, client-cantered approach, influenced by psychodynamic, gestalt, Rogerian, and Ericksonian traditions, brought together within the dance of affect attunement that is seen most powerfully in the relationship between a parent and her/his infant and toddler. The DDP model is described well in Building the Bonds of Attachment, 2nd Edition (2006). He expanded the treatment model so that it was applicable to all families, which led to the publication of Attachment-Focused Family Therapy Workbook in 2011 and Attachment-Focused Parenting in 2009. In 2012 he wrote Brain-Based Parenting with Jon Baylin and Creating Loving Attachments with Kim Golding.

Pat Ogden Ph.D., is a pioneer in somatic psychology and the founder/director of the Sensorimotor Psychotherapy® Institute in Colorado (USA), an internationally recognized school specializing in somatic–cognitive approaches for the treatment of post-traumatic stress disorder and attachment disturbances. She is co-founder of the Hakomi Institute, a clinician, consultant, international lecturer and trainer, and first author of Trauma and the Body: A Sensorimotor Approach to Psychotherapy. Her second book, Sensorimotor Psychotherapy: Interventions for Trauma and Attachment, due out in Spring, 2014, is a practical guide to integrate Sensorimotor Psychotherapy® interventions into the treatment of trauma and attachment issues. Dr. Ogden is currently developing Sensorimotor Psychotherapy for Children, adolescents and families with colleagues. Dr Allan Schore is on the clinical faculty of the Department of Psychiatry and Biobehavioural Sciences, UCLA David Geffen School of Medicine, and at the UCLA Centre for Culture, Brain, and Development (Los Angeles USA). He is author of four seminal volumes, Affect Regulation and the Origin of the Self, Affect Dysregulation and Disorders of the Self, Affect Regulation and the Repair of the Self, and The Science of the Art of Psychotherapy, as well as numerous articles and chapters. His Regulation Theory, is grounded in developmental neuroscience and developmental psychoanalysis. His contributions appear in multiple disciplines, including developmental neuroscience, psychiatry, psychoanalysis, developmental psychology, attachment theory, trauma studies, behavioural biology, clinical psychology and social work. His ground breaking integration of neuroscience with attachment theory has lead to his description as the American Bowlby with emotional development as the world’s leading authority on how our right hemisphere regulates emotion and processes our sense of self. The American Psychoanalytic Association has described Dr. Schore as a monumental figure in psychoanalytic and neuropsychoanalytic studies.

Dr Baylin received his doctorate in clinical psychology from Peabody College of Vanderbilt University in 1981. He has been working in the mental health field for 35 years. For the past fifteen years, while continuing his clinical practice, he has immersed himself in the study of neurobiology and in teaching mental health practitioners about the brain. He has given numerous workshops for mental health professionals on “Putting the Brain in Therapy.” Several years ago, Dr. Baylin began a collaborative relationship with Daniel Hughes, a leader in the field of attachment-focused therapy. Their book, Brain Based Parenting, was released by Norton Press in the spring of 2012 as part of the Norton series on Interpersonal Neurobiology. Dr. Baylin has delivered keynote sessions at international conferences and has also given numerous workshops both internationally and regionally within the US
Dr Dan Hughes has been a psychologist specializing in the treatment of children and youth with severe emotional and behavioural problems. His work has focused on children and youth who experienced developmental trauma and attachment disorganization along with their foster and adoptive families. Dan has borrowed heavily from attachment theory and neurobiology research to develop a model of treatment that he calls Dyadic Developmental Psychotherapy. DDP is a non-directive yet directive, client-cantered approach, influenced by psychodynamic, gestalt, Rogerian, and Ericksonian traditions, brought together within the dance of affect attunement that is seen most powerfully in the relationship between a parent and her/his infant and toddler. The DDP model is described well in Building the Bonds of Attachment, 2nd Edition (2006). He expanded the treatment model so that it was applicable to all families, which led to the publication of Attachment-Focused Family Therapy Workbook in 2011 and Attachment-Focused Parenting in 2009. In 2012 he wrote Brain-Based Parenting with Jon Baylin and Creating Loving Attachments with Kim Golding.

Professor Michael Yellow Bird, MSW, PhD is a citizen of the Three Affiliated Tribes, the Mandan, Hidatsa, and Arikara Nations. He is the Director of the Tribal and Indigenous Peoples Studies program and Professor in Sociology and Anthropology Department at North Dakota State University. He is the author of numerous scholarly articles and the co-editor of four books: For Indigenous Eyes Only: A Decolonization Handbook, 2005 (with Dr. Waziyatawin); For Indigenous Minds Only: A Decolonization Handbook (2012 with Dr Waziyatawin); Indigenous Social Work around the World: towards Culturally Relevant Education and Practice, 2008, 2010 (with Professors Mel Gray and John Coates); and Decolonizing Social Work 2013 (with Professor Mel Gray, John Coates, and Dr Tiani Hetherington) His teaching, writing, research, presentations, and community work, focus on social work with Indigenous Peoples, decolonizing social work, neurodecolonization, neuroscience and social work, and restoring traditional Indigenous mindfulness practices in tribal communities. He writes a regular mind body health column for the MHA (Mandan, Hidatsa, and Arikara) Times newspaper and maintains an internet Blog that shares his writing on topics related to Indigenous Peoples, health, decolonization, social work, and mindfulness.

Professor Michael Yellow Bird, MSW, PhD is a citizen of the Three Affiliated Tribes, the Mandan, Hidatsa, and Arikara Nations. He is the Director of the Tribal and Indigenous Peoples Studies program and Professor in Sociology and Anthropology Department at North Dakota State University. He is the author of numerous scholarly articles and the co-editor of four books: For Indigenous Eyes Only: A Decolonization Handbook, 2005 (with Dr. Waziyatawin); For Indigenous Minds Only: A Decolonization Handbook (2012 with Dr Waziyatawin); Indigenous Social Work around the World: towards Culturally Relevant Education and Practice, 2008, 2010 (with Professors Mel Gray and John Coates); and Decolonizing Social Work 2013 (with Professor Mel Gray, John Coates, and Dr Tiani Hetherington) His teaching, writing, research, presentations, and community work, focus on social work with Indigenous Peoples, decolonizing social work, neurodecolonization, neuroscience and social work, and restoring traditional Indigenous mindfulness practices in tribal communities. He writes a regular mind body health column for the MHA (Mandan, Hidatsa, and Arikara) Times newspaper and maintains an internet Blog that shares his writing on topics related to Indigenous Peoples, health, decolonization, social work, and mindfulness.

Professor Michael Yellow Bird, MSW, PhD is a citizen of the Three Affiliated Tribes, the Mandan, Hidatsa, and Arikara Nations. He is the Director of the Tribal and Indigenous Peoples Studies program and Professor in Sociology and Anthropology Department at North Dakota State University. He is the author of numerous scholarly articles and the co-editor of four books: For Indigenous Eyes Only: A Decolonization Handbook, 2005 (with Dr. Waziyatawin); For Indigenous Minds Only: A Decolonization Handbook (2012 with Dr Waziyatawin); Indigenous Social Work around the World: towards Culturally Relevant Education and Practice, 2008, 2010 (with Professors Mel Gray and John Coates); and Decolonizing Social Work 2013 (with Professor Mel Gray, John Coates, and Dr Tiani Hetherington) His teaching, writing, research, presentations, and community work, focus on social work with Indigenous Peoples, decolonizing social work, neurodecolonization, neuroscience and social work, and restoring traditional Indigenous mindfulness practices in tribal communities. He writes a regular mind body health column for the MHA (Mandan, Hidatsa, and Arikara) Times newspaper and maintains an internet Blog that shares his writing on topics related to Indigenous Peoples, health, decolonization, social work, and mindfulness.

The primary mission of Martin H. Teicher’s research programs is to improve the life of children, adolescents and adults by exploring the etiology and treatment of psychiatric disorders that arise during development. A major focus of his work is on the effects of childhood traumatic stress and he pioneered studies into the effects of abuse on brain development. Another focus has been on the use of technology to aid in objective psychiatric diagnosis. Dr Teicher received a Ph.D. in Psychology from The Johns Hopkins University, M.D. from Yale and residency training in Psychiatry at McLean Hospital / Harvard Medical School. He is the Director of the Developmental Biopsychiatry Research Program at McLean Hospital and an Associate Professor of Psychiatry at Harvard. Dr Teicher has served on the Editorial Board of the Journal of Child and Adolescent Psychopharmacology since its inception and he is the child and adolescent psychiatry section editor for BMC Psychiatry. He has received continuous funding from the National Institute of Health over the last 27 years. He is currently funded by awards from the National Institute of Mental Health, National Institute on Drug Abuse and National Institute on Child Health and Human Development. Dr Teicher has been a Committee Member of the Neurochemistry and Neuropharmacology Study Section, the Small Business Innovative Research Study Section, and Neuroscience Fellowship Review Committee at the National Institute of Health. He is the author of over 200 articles and holds 18 U.S. patents primarily for diagnostic technology and pharmaceutical agents. His articles have been cited more than 16,000 times.

The primary mission of Martin H. Teicher’s research programs is to improve the life of children, adolescents and adults by exploring the etiology and treatment of psychiatric disorders that arise during development. A major focus of his work is on the effects of childhood traumatic stress and he pioneered studies into the effects of abuse on brain development. Another focus has been on the use of technology to aid in objective psychiatric diagnosis. Dr Teicher received a Ph.D. in Psychology from The Johns Hopkins University, M.D. from Yale and residency training in Psychiatry at McLean Hospital / Harvard Medical School. He is the Director of the Developmental Biopsychiatry Research Program at McLean Hospital and an Associate Professor of Psychiatry at Harvard. Dr Teicher has served on the Editorial Board of the Journal of Child and Adolescent Psychopharmacology since its inception and he is the child and adolescent psychiatry section editor for BMC Psychiatry. He has received continuous funding from the National Institute of Health over the last 27 years. He is currently funded by awards from the National Institute of Mental Health, National Institute on Drug Abuse and National Institute on Child Health and Human Development. Dr Teicher has been a Committee Member of the Neurochemistry and Neuropharmacology Study Section, the Small Business Innovative Research Study Section, and Neuroscience Fellowship Review Committee at the National Institute of Health. He is the author of over 200 articles and holds 18 U.S. patents primarily for diagnostic technology and pharmaceutical agents. His articles have been cited more than 16,000 times.

The primary mission of Martin H. Teicher’s research programs is to improve the life of children, adolescents and adults by exploring the etiology and treatment of psychiatric disorders that arise during development. A major focus of his work is on the effects of childhood traumatic stress and he pioneered studies into the effects of abuse on brain development. Another focus has been on the use of technology to aid in objective psychiatric diagnosis. Dr Teicher received a Ph.D. in Psychology from The Johns Hopkins University, M.D. from Yale and residency training in Psychiatry at McLean Hospital / Harvard Medical School. He is the Director of the Developmental Biopsychiatry Research Program at McLean Hospital and an Associate Professor of Psychiatry at Harvard. Dr Teicher has served on the Editorial Board of the Journal of Child and Adolescent Psychopharmacology since its inception and he is the child and adolescent psychiatry section editor for BMC Psychiatry. He has received continuous funding from the National Institute of Health over the last 27 years. He is currently funded by awards from the National Institute of Mental Health, National Institute on Drug Abuse and National Institute on Child Health and Human Development. Dr Teicher has been a Committee Member of the Neurochemistry and Neuropharmacology Study Section, the Small Business Innovative Research Study Section, and Neuroscience Fellowship Review Committee at the National Institute of Health. He is the author of over 200 articles and holds 18 U.S. patents primarily for diagnostic technology and pharmaceutical agents. His articles have been cited more than 16,000 times.

The primary mission of Martin H. Teicher’s research programs is to improve the life of children, adolescents and adults by exploring the etiology and treatment of psychiatric disorders that arise during development. A major focus of his work is on the effects of childhood traumatic stress and he pioneered studies into the effects of abuse on brain development. Another focus has been on the use of technology to aid in objective psychiatric diagnosis. Dr Teicher received a Ph.D. in Psychology from The Johns Hopkins University, M.D. from Yale and residency training in Psychiatry at McLean Hospital / Harvard Medical School. He is the Director of the Developmental Biopsychiatry Research Program at McLean Hospital and an Associate Professor of Psychiatry at Harvard. Dr Teicher has served on the Editorial Board of the Journal of Child and Adolescent Psychopharmacology since its inception and he is the child and adolescent psychiatry section editor for BMC Psychiatry. He has received continuous funding from the National Institute of Health over the last 27 years. He is currently funded by awards from the National Institute of Mental Health, National Institute on Drug Abuse and National Institute on Child Health and Human Development. Dr Teicher has been a Committee Member of the Neurochemistry and Neuropharmacology Study Section, the Small Business Innovative Research Study Section, and Neuroscience Fellowship Review Committee at the National Institute of Health. He is the author of over 200 articles and holds 18 U.S. patents primarily for diagnostic technology and pharmaceutical agents. His articles have been cited more than 16,000 times.

Dr Ed Tronick (University of Massachusetts, Boston, USA) is a developmental and clinical psychologist and is recognized internationally as a researcher on infants and children and parenting. He has co-authored and authored more than 200 scientific papers and chapters. Dr. Tronick’s research focuses on social-emotional development and self-regulatory processes in normal and compromised infants and young children and the effects of stress on infants and parents. He developed the Still-Face Paradigm and the Model of Mutual Regulation. More recently he has worked on co-creative processes of the expansion meaning in the infant-adult in the therapeutic dyadic. He has carried out research in Zaire, Peru, and India on child rearing and development. He co-developed the Neonatal Behavioral Assessment and the Touchpoints Program with Berry Brazelton and is a master trainer. Recently, he and his colleague, Barry Lester published the NICU Network Neurobehavioral Assessment, a standardized instrument for assessing the neurobehavioral status of the newborn that has proved effective in making long term predictions. Dr. Tronick’s current research with his research team focuses on the area of Relational Psychophysiology.

Professor Michael Yellow Bird, MSW, PhD is a citizen of the Three Affiliated Tribes, the Mandan, Hidatsa, and Arikara Nations. He is the Director of the Tribal and Indigenous Peoples Studies program and Professor in Sociology and Anthropology Department at North Dakota State University. He is the author of numerous scholarly articles and the co-editor of four books: For Indigenous Eyes Only: A Decolonization Handbook, 2005 (with Dr. Waziyatawin); For Indigenous Minds Only: A Decolonization Handbook (2012 with Dr Waziyatawin); Indigenous Social Work around the World: towards Culturally Relevant Education and Practice, 2008, 2010 (with Professors Mel Gray and John Coates); and Decolonizing Social Work 2013 (with Professor Mel Gray, John Coates, and Dr Tiani Hetherington) His teaching, writing, research, presentations, and community work, focus on social work with Indigenous Peoples, decolonizing social work, neurodecolonization, neuroscience and social work, and restoring traditional Indigenous mindfulness practices in tribal communities. He writes a regular mind body health column for the MHA (Mandan, Hidatsa, and Arikara) Times newspaper and maintains an internet Blog that shares his writing on topics related to Indigenous Peoples, health, decolonization, social work, and mindfulness.

Dr Allan Schore is on the clinical faculty of the Department of Psychiatry and Biobehavioural Sciences, UCLA David Geffen School of Medicine, and at the UCLA Centre for Culture, Brain, and Development (Los Angeles USA). He is author of four seminal volumes, Affect Regulation and the Origin of the Self, Affect Dysregulation and Disorders of the Self, Affect Regulation and the Repair of the Self, and The Science of the Art of Psychotherapy, as well as numerous articles and chapters. His Regulation Theory, is grounded in developmental neuroscience and developmental psychoanalysis. His contributions appear in multiple disciplines, including developmental neuroscience, psychiatry, psychoanalysis, developmental psychology, attachment theory, trauma studies, behavioural biology, clinical psychology and social work. His ground breaking integration of neuroscience with attachment theory has lead to his description as the American Bowlby with emotional development as the world’s leading authority on how our right hemisphere regulates emotion and processes our sense of self. The American Psychoanalytic Association has described Dr. Schore as a monumental figure in psychoanalytic and neuropsychoanalytic studies.

The primary mission of Martin H. Teicher’s research programs is to improve the life of children, adolescents and adults by exploring the etiology and treatment of psychiatric disorders that arise during development. A major focus of his work is on the effects of childhood traumatic stress and he pioneered studies into the effects of abuse on brain development. Another focus has been on the use of technology to aid in objective psychiatric diagnosis. Dr Teicher received a Ph.D. in Psychology from The Johns Hopkins University, M.D. from Yale and residency training in Psychiatry at McLean Hospital / Harvard Medical School. He is the Director of the Developmental Biopsychiatry Research Program at McLean Hospital and an Associate Professor of Psychiatry at Harvard. Dr Teicher has served on the Editorial Board of the Journal of Child and Adolescent Psychopharmacology since its inception and he is the child and adolescent psychiatry section editor for BMC Psychiatry. He has received continuous funding from the National Institute of Health over the last 27 years. He is currently funded by awards from the National Institute of Mental Health, National Institute on Drug Abuse and National Institute on Child Health and Human Development. Dr Teicher has been a Committee Member of the Neurochemistry and Neuropharmacology Study Section, the Small Business Innovative Research Study Section, and Neuroscience Fellowship Review Committee at the National Institute of Health. He is the author of over 200 articles and holds 18 U.S. patents primarily for diagnostic technology and pharmaceutical agents. His articles have been cited more than 16,000 times.

Dr Stephen Porges is Professor of Psychiatry at the University of North Carolina (USA). He is Professor Emeritus of Psychiatry at the University of Illinois at Chicago where he directed the Brain-Body Centre. Dr. Porges is also Professor Emeritus at the University of Maryland where served as Chair of the Department of Human Development and Director of the Institute for Child Study. He is a former president of the Society for Psychophysiological Research and also of the Federation of Behavioural, Psychological, and Cognitive Sciences. He is a former recipient of a National Institute of Mental Health Research Scientist Development Award. He has published more than 200 peer‐reviewed scientific papers across several disciplines including anaesthesiology, critical care medicine, ergonomics, exercise physiology, gerontology, neurology, obstetrics, paediatrics, psychiatry, psychology, space medicine, and substance abuse. In 1994 he proposed the Polyvagal Theory, a theory that links the evolution of the vertebrate autonomic nervous system to the emergence of social behaviour. The theory provides insights into the mechanisms mediating symptoms observed in several behavioural, psychiatric, and physical disorders. The theory has stimulated research and treatments that emphasize the importance of physiological state and behavioural regulation in the expression of several psychiatric disorders and provides a theoretical perspective to study and to treat stress and trauma. He is the author of The Polyvagal Theory: Neurophysiological foundations of Emotions, Attachment, Communication, and Self-regulation (Norton, 2011) and is currently writing Clinical Applications of the Polyvagal Theory: The Transformative Power of Feeling Safe (Norton, 2014).

Russell Meares is an Emeritus Professor of Psychiatry at Sydney University and Director of Mental Health Sciences at Westmead Hospital in Sydney. He trained at Maudsley and Bethlem Royal Hospitals, 1963 -1968, co-founding with Robert Hobson the Conversational Model of Psychotherapy. He was Founder of the academic department of Psychiatry, University of Melbourne, at the Austin Hospital 1969. He is the Foundation Chair of Psychiatry of Sydney University at Westmead Hospital, 1981 and the Foundation President   of the Australian and New Zealand Association of Psychotherapy in 1989. His most recent books are: “Intimacy and Alienation”, 2000; “Metaphor of Play”, revised and enlarged edition, 2005.  He was awarded Distinguished Psychiatrist of the Year, at UCLA, 2007 and the RANZCP NSW Branch, Meritorious Service Award, 2009.

Ed Tronick (University of Massachusetts, Boston, USA) is a developmental and clinical psychologist and is recognized internationally as a researcher on infants and children and parenting. He has co-authored and authored more than 200 scientific papers and chapters. Dr. Tronick’s research focuses on social-emotional development and self-regulatory processes in normal and compromised infants and young children and the effects of stress on infants and parents. He developed the Still-Face Paradigm and the Model of Mutual Regulation. More recently he has worked on co-creative processes of the expansion meaning in the infant-adult in the therapeutic dyadic. He has carried out research in Zaire, Peru, and India on child rearing and development. He co-developed the Neonatal Behavioral Assessment and the Touchpoints Program with Berry Brazelton and is a master trainer.  Recently, he and his colleague, Barry Lester published the NICU Network Neurobehavioral Assessment, a standardized instrument for assessing the neurobehavioral status of the newborn that has proved effective in making long term predictions. Dr. Tronick’s current research with his research team focuses on the area of Relational Psychophysiology.

Marilyn Davillier is a Licensed Clinical Social Worker who has worked with infants, toddlers, children, and their families, in a teaching, research or clinical capacity for over 30 years. What began as a career in the Montessori method of pre-school education led to extensive research experience in behavioral pediatrics.  In this capacity, she worked extensively with the psychological tools and measures relevant to infant and child development and co-authored several papers on the long-range developmental outcomes of preterm and drug-exposed infants. Additional post-licensure trainings include:  The Brazelton Touchpoints Model of Child Development, The Napa Infant-Parent Mental Health Post-Graduate Fellowship, Perry’s Neurosequential Model of Therapeutics, Ogden’s Sensorimotor Psychotherapy, Downing’s Video Intervention Therapy (VIT), Sandplay Therapy, and Mindfulness Meditation Training.  Ms. Davillier is currently the Associate Director of the University of Massachusetts, Boston, Infant-Parent Mental Health Post-Graduate Certificate Program, a two-year fellowship that trains a multidisciplinary group of professionals to treat the disorders of infancy, toddlerhood and early childhood.  She also maintains a private practice in Boston that specializes in the parent-child dyadic model of treatment for families with young children under the age of six years of age who are dealing with disorders of behavior, regulation, communication, mood, adoption and trauma.  Related therapeutic services also include:  Parent Consultation, Family Therapy, Play/Art/Sandplay therapy for elementary and middle-school aged children, Adolescent Psychotherapy, and Couples Therapy.  Ms. Davillier lectures both nationally and internationally on meaning-making in the clinical treatment of young children, the importance of limit setting, family narratives, and the use of literature to promote resilience in the private life of the child.  She is currently writing a fairy tale.

Professor Michael Yellow Bird, MSW, PhD is a citizen of the Three Affiliated Tribes, the Mandan, Hidatsa, and Arikara Nations. He is the Director of the Tribal and Indigenous Peoples Studies program and Professor in Sociology and Anthropology Department at North Dakota State University. He is the author of numerous scholarly articles and the co-editor of four books: For Indigenous Eyes Only: A Decolonization Handbook, 2005 (with Dr. Waziyatawin); For Indigenous Minds Only: A Decolonization Handbook (2012 with Dr Waziyatawin); Indigenous Social Work around the World: towards Culturally Relevant Education and Practice, 2008, 2010 (with Professors Mel Gray and John Coates); and Decolonizing Social Work 2013 (with Professor Mel Gray, John Coates, and Dr Tiani Hetherington) His teaching, writing, research, presentations, and community work, focus on social work with Indigenous Peoples, decolonizing social work, neurodecolonization, neuroscience and social work, and restoring traditional Indigenous mindfulness practices in tribal communities. He writes a regular mind body health column for the MHA (Mandan, Hidatsa, and Arikara) Times newspaper and maintains an internet Blog that shares his writing on topics related to Indigenous Peoples, health, decolonization, social work, and mindfulness.

Dr Baylin received his doctorate in clinical psychology from Peabody College of Vanderbilt University in 1981. He has been working in the mental health field for 35 years. For the past fifteen years, while continuing his clinical practice, he has immersed himself in the study of neurobiology and in teaching mental health practitioners about the brain. He has given numerous workshops for mental health professionals on “Putting the Brain in Therapy.” Several years ago, Dr. Baylin began a collaborative relationship with Daniel Hughes, a leader in the field of attachment-focused therapy. Their book, Brain Based Parenting, was released by Norton Press in the spring of 2012 as part of the Norton series on Interpersonal Neurobiology. Dr. Baylin has delivered keynote sessions at international conferences and has also given numerous workshops both internationally and regionally within the US
Dr Dan Hughes has been a psychologist specializing in the treatment of children and youth with severe emotional and behavioural problems. His work has focused on children and youth who experienced developmental trauma and attachment disorganization along with their foster and adoptive families. Dan has borrowed heavily from attachment theory and neurobiology research to develop a model of treatment that he calls Dyadic Developmental Psychotherapy. DDP is a non-directive yet directive, client-cantered approach, influenced by psychodynamic, gestalt, Rogerian, and Ericksonian traditions, brought together within the dance of affect attunement that is seen most powerfully in the relationship between a parent and her/his infant and toddler. The DDP model is described well in Building the Bonds of Attachment, 2nd Edition (2006). He expanded the treatment model so that it was applicable to all families, which led to the publication of Attachment-Focused Family Therapy Workbook in 2011 and Attachment-Focused Parenting in 2009. In 2012 he wrote Brain-Based Parenting with Jon Baylin and Creating Loving Attachments with Kim Golding.

Dr Sue Carter is Professor of Psychiatry at the University of North Carolina (USA). She is Professor Emerita of Psychiatry at the University of Illinois at Chicago and has formerly held the position of Distinguished University Professor of Biology at the University of Maryland and prior to that was Professor in the Departments of Psychology and Ecology, Ethology and Evolution at the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign. Dr. Carter is past president of the International Behavioural Neuroscience Society and holds fellow status in that Society and in the American Association for the Advancement of Science. She has authored over 275 publications, including editorship of 5 books. The most recent of these is Attachment and Bonding; A New Synthesis (MIT Press). Research from Dr. Carter’s laboratory documented the role of oxytocin and vasopressin in social bond formation. Her most recent work focuses on the developmental consequences of oxytocin, including perinatal exposure to synthetic oxytocin, and the protective role of this peptide in the regulation of behavioural and autonomic reactivity to stressful experiences.

Speakers Include: 

Allan Schore, Cindy Blackstock, Dan Hughes, Pat Ogden, Stephen Porges, Kim Golding, Marilyn Davillier, Judith Schore, Joe Tucci

Dr Allan Schore is on the clinical faculty of the Department of Psychiatry and Biobehavioural Sciences, UCLA David Geffen School of Medicine, and at the UCLA Centre for Culture, Brain, and Development (Los Angeles USA). He is author of four seminal volumes, Affect Regulation and the Origin of the Self, Affect Dysregulation and Disorders of the Self, Affect Regulation and the Repair of the Self, and The Science of the Art of Psychotherapy, as well as numerous articles and chapters. His Regulation Theory, is grounded in developmental neuroscience and developmental psychoanalysis. His contributions appear in multiple disciplines, including developmental neuroscience, psychiatry, psychoanalysis, developmental psychology, attachment theory, trauma studies, behavioural biology, clinical psychology and social work. His ground breaking integration of neuroscience with attachment theory has lead to his description as the American Bowlby with emotional development as the world’s leading authority on how our right hemisphere regulates emotion and processes our sense of self. The American Psychoanalytic Association has described Dr. Schore as a monumental figure in psychoanalytic and neuropsychoanalytic studies.

Russell Meares is an Emeritus Professor of Psychiatry at Sydney University and Director of Mental Health Sciences at Westmead Hospital in Sydney. He trained at Maudsley and Bethlem Royal Hospitals, 1963 -1968, co-founding with Robert Hobson the Conversational Model of Psychotherapy. He was Founder of the academic department of Psychiatry, University of Melbourne, at the Austin Hospital 1969. He is the Foundation Chair of Psychiatry of Sydney University at Westmead Hospital, 1981 and the Foundation President   of the Australian and New Zealand Association of Psychotherapy in 1989. His most recent books are: “Intimacy and Alienation”, 2000; “Metaphor of Play”, revised and enlarged edition, 2005.  He was awarded Distinguished Psychiatrist of the Year, at UCLA, 2007 and the RANZCP NSW Branch, Meritorious Service Award, 2009.

Dr Stephen Porges is Professor of Psychiatry at the University of North Carolina (USA). He is Professor Emeritus of Psychiatry at the University of Illinois at Chicago where he directed the Brain-Body Centre. Dr. Porges is also Professor Emeritus at the University of Maryland where served as Chair of the Department of Human Development and Director of the Institute for Child Study. He is a former president of the Society for Psychophysiological Research and also of the Federation of Behavioural, Psychological, and Cognitive Sciences. He is a former recipient of a National Institute of Mental Health Research Scientist Development Award. He has published more than 200 peer‐reviewed scientific papers across several disciplines including anaesthesiology, critical care medicine, ergonomics, exercise physiology, gerontology, neurology, obstetrics, paediatrics, psychiatry, psychology, space medicine, and substance abuse. In 1994 he proposed the Polyvagal Theory, a theory that links the evolution of the vertebrate autonomic nervous system to the emergence of social behaviour. The theory provides insights into the mechanisms mediating symptoms observed in several behavioural, psychiatric, and physical disorders. The theory has stimulated research and treatments that emphasize the importance of physiological state and behavioural regulation in the expression of several psychiatric disorders and provides a theoretical perspective to study and to treat stress and trauma. He is the author of The Polyvagal Theory: Neurophysiological foundations of Emotions, Attachment, Communication, and Self-regulation (Norton, 2011) and is currently writing Clinical Applications of the Polyvagal Theory: The Transformative Power of Feeling Safe (Norton, 2014).

Speakers Include: 

Cindy Blackstock, Dan Hughes, Pat Ogden, Kim Golding, Ed Tronick, Judith Schore, Allan Schore, Sue Carter, Marilyn Davillier

Emeritus Professor Judy Atkinson is a Jiman – Aboriginal Australian (from Central west Queensland) / Bundjalung (Northern New South Wales) woman, who also has Anglo-Celtic, and German heritage. She holds a BA from the University of Canberra, and a PhD from Queensland University of Technology. She is also a graduate of the Harvard University – Program for Refugee Trauma – Global Mental Health Trauma and Recovery certificate course. Her primary academic and research focus has been in the area of violence, with its relational trauma, and healing or recovery for Indigenous, and indeed all peoples. In 2006, while Head of the College of Indigenous Australian Peoples at Southern Cross University, she won the Carrick Neville Bonner Award for her curriculum development and innovative teaching practice. In 2011 she was awarded the Fritz Redlich Memorial award for Human Rights and Mental Health from the Harvard University Program for Refugee Trauma. She co-authored the Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Women’s Task Force on Violence Report, for the Queensland government. Her book in 2005: Trauma Trails – Recreating Songlines:The Transgenerational Effects of Trauma in Indigenous Australia, provides context to the life stories of people who have moved/been moved from their country in a process that has created trauma trails, and the changes that can occur in the lives of people as they make connections with each other, and share their stories of healing.

Dr Dan Siegel is currently clinical professor of psychiatry at the UCLA School of Medicine where he is on the faculty of the Centre for Culture, Brain, and Development and the Co-Director of the Mindful Awareness Research Centre (Los Angeles, USA). An award-winning educator, he is a Distinguished Fellow of the American Psychiatric Association and recipient of several honorary fellowships. Dr. Siegel is also the Executive Director of the Mindsight Institute, an educational organization, which offers online learning and in-person lectures that focus on how the development of mindsight in individuals, families and communities can be enhanced by examining the interface of human relationships and basic biological processes. Dr. Siegel has published extensively for the professional audience. He is the co-editor of the Handbook of Psychiatry and the author of numerous articles, chapters, and the internationally acclaimed text, The Developing Mind: How Relationships and the Brain Interact to Shape Who We Are (Guilford, 1999). This book introduces the field of interpersonal neurobiology, and has been utilized by a number of clinical and research organizations worldwide, including the U.S. Department of Justice, The Vatican’s Pontifical Council for the Family, Microsoft and Google. The Developing Mind, Second Edition was published on March 14, 2012. Dr. Siegel serves as the Founding Editor for the Norton Professional Series on Interpersonal Neurobiology which now includes more than 20 textbooks. His professional book, The Mindful Brain: Reflection and Attunement in the Cultivation of Well-Being (Norton, 2007), explores the nature of mindful awareness as a process that harnesses the social circuitry of the brain as it promotes mental, physical, and relational health. His latest professional text, The Mindful Therapist: A Clinician's Guide to Mindsight and Neural Integration (Norton, 2010), explores the application of focusing techniques for the clinician’s own development, as well as their clients' development of mindsight and neural integration. His latest book is Pocket Guide to Interpersonal Neurobiology:An Integrative Handbook of the Mind (Norton, 2012).

Dr Ed Tronick (University of Massachusetts, Boston, USA) is a developmental and clinical psychologist and is recognized internationally as a researcher on infants and children and parenting. He has co-authored and authored more than 200 scientific papers and chapters. Dr. Tronick’s research focuses on social-emotional development and self-regulatory processes in normal and compromised infants and young children and the effects of stress on infants and parents. He developed the Still-Face Paradigm and the Model of Mutual Regulation. More recently he has worked on co-creative processes of the expansion meaning in the infant-adult in the therapeutic dyadic. He has carried out research in Zaire, Peru, and India on child rearing and development. He co-developed the Neonatal Behavioral Assessment and the Touchpoints Program with Berry Brazelton and is a master trainer. Recently, he and his colleague, Barry Lester published the NICU Network Neurobehavioral Assessment, a standardized instrument for assessing the neurobehavioral status of the newborn that has proved effective in making long term predictions. Dr. Tronick’s current research with his research team focuses on the area of Relational Psychophysiology.

Dr Dan Siegel is currently clinical professor of psychiatry at the UCLA School of Medicine where he is on the faculty of the Centre for Culture, Brain, and Development and the Co-Director of the Mindful Awareness Research Centre (Los Angeles, USA). An award-winning educator, he is a Distinguished Fellow of the American Psychiatric Association and recipient of several honorary fellowships. Dr. Siegel is also the Executive Director of the Mindsight Institute, an educational organization, which offers online learning and in-person lectures that focus on how the development of mindsight in individuals, families and communities can be enhanced by examining the interface of human relationships and basic biological processes. Dr. Siegel has published extensively for the professional audience. He is the co-editor of the Handbook of Psychiatry and the author of numerous articles, chapters, and the internationally acclaimed text, The Developing Mind: How Relationships and the Brain Interact to Shape Who We Are (Guilford, 1999). This book introduces the field of interpersonal neurobiology, and has been utilized by a number of clinical and research organizations worldwide, including the U.S. Department of Justice, The Vatican’s Pontifical Council for the Family, Microsoft and Google. The Developing Mind, Second Edition was published on March 14, 2012. Dr. Siegel serves as the Founding Editor for the Norton Professional Series on Interpersonal Neurobiology which now includes more than 20 textbooks. His professional book, The Mindful Brain: Reflection and Attunement in the Cultivation of Well-Being (Norton, 2007), explores the nature of mindful awareness as a process that harnesses the social circuitry of the brain as it promotes mental, physical, and relational health. His latest professional text, The Mindful Therapist: A Clinician's Guide to Mindsight and Neural Integration (Norton, 2010), explores the application of focusing techniques for the clinician’s own development, as well as their clients' development of mindsight and neural integration. His latest book is Pocket Guide to Interpersonal Neurobiology:An Integrative Handbook of the Mind (Norton, 2012).

The primary mission of Martin H. Teicher’s research programs is to improve the life of children, adolescents and adults by exploring the etiology and treatment of psychiatric disorders that arise during development. A major focus of his work is on the effects of childhood traumatic stress and he pioneered studies into the effects of abuse on brain development. Another focus has been on the use of technology to aid in objective psychiatric diagnosis. Dr Teicher received a Ph.D. in Psychology from The Johns Hopkins University, M.D. from Yale and residency training in Psychiatry at McLean Hospital / Harvard Medical School. He is the Director of the Developmental Biopsychiatry Research Program at McLean Hospital and an Associate Professor of Psychiatry at Harvard. Dr Teicher has served on the Editorial Board of the Journal of Child and Adolescent Psychopharmacology since its inception and he is the child and adolescent psychiatry section editor for BMC Psychiatry. He has received continuous funding from the National Institute of Health over the last 27 years. He is currently funded by awards from the National Institute of Mental Health, National Institute on Drug Abuse and National Institute on Child Health and Human Development. Dr Teicher has been a Committee Member of the Neurochemistry and Neuropharmacology Study Section, the Small Business Innovative Research Study Section, and Neuroscience Fellowship Review Committee at the National Institute of Health. He is the author of over 200 articles and holds 18 U.S. patents primarily for diagnostic technology and pharmaceutical agents. His articles have been cited more than 16,000 times.

Emeritus Professor Judy Atkinson is a Jiman – Aboriginal Australian (from Central west Queensland) / Bundjalung (Northern New South Wales) woman, who also has Anglo-Celtic, and German heritage. She holds a BA from the University of Canberra, and a PhD from Queensland University of Technology. She is also a graduate of the Harvard University – Program for Refugee Trauma – Global Mental Health Trauma and Recovery certificate course. Her primary academic and research focus has been in the area of violence, with its relational trauma, and healing or recovery for Indigenous, and indeed all peoples. In 2006, while Head of the College of Indigenous Australian Peoples at Southern Cross University, she won the Carrick Neville Bonner Award for her curriculum development and innovative teaching practice. In 2011 she was awarded the Fritz Redlich Memorial award for Human Rights and Mental Health from the Harvard University Program for Refugee Trauma. She co-authored the Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Women’s Task Force on Violence Report, for the Queensland government. Her book in 2005: Trauma Trails – Recreating Songlines:The Transgenerational Effects of Trauma in Indigenous Australia, provides context to the life stories of people who have moved/been moved from their country in a process that has created trauma trails, and the changes that can occur in the lives of people as they make connections with each other, and share their stories of healing.

Marilyn Davillier, LCSW, Associate Program Director - A Licensed Clinical Social Worker who has worked with infants, toddlers, children, and their families, in a teaching, research or clinical capacity for over 30 years. What began as a career in the Montessori method of pre-school education led to extensive research experience in behavioral pediatrics. In this capacity, she worked extensively with the psychological tools and measures relevant to infant and child development and co-authored several papers on the long-range developmental outcomes of preterm and drug-exposed infants. Additional post-licensure trainings include: The Brazelton Touchpoints Model of Child Development, The Napa Infant-Parent Mental Health Post-Graduate Fellowship, Perry’s Neurosequential Model of Therapeutics, Ogden’s Sensorimotor Psychotherapy, Downing’s Video Intervention Therapy (VIT), Sandplay Therapy, and Mindfulness Meditation Training. Ms. Davillier is currently the Associate Director of the University of Massachusetts, Boston, Infant-Parent Mental Health Post-Graduate Certificate Program, a two-year fellowship that trains a multidisciplinary group of professionals to treat the disorders of infancy, toddlerhood and early childhood. She also maintains a private practice in Boston that specializes in the parent-child dyadic model of treatment for families with young children under the age of six years of age who are dealing with disorders of behavior, regulation, communication, mood, adoption and trauma. Related therapeutic services also include: Parent Consultation, Family Therapy, Play/Art/Sandplay therapy for elementary and middle-school aged children, Adolescent Psychotherapy, and Couples Therapy. Ms. Davillier lectures both nationally and internationally on meaning-making in the clinical treatment of young children, the importance of limit setting, family narratives, and the use of literature to promote resilience in the private life of the child. She is currently writing a fairy tale.

Speakers Include: 

Cindy Blackstock, Dan Hughes, Ed Tronick, Dan Siegel, Judy Atkinson, Stephen Porges, Joe Tucci

Emeritus Professor Judy Atkinson is a Jiman – Aboriginal Australian (from Central west Queensland) / Bundjalung (Northern New South Wales) woman, who also has Anglo-Celtic, and German heritage. She holds a BA from the University of Canberra, and a PhD from Queensland University of Technology. She is also a graduate of the Harvard University – Program for Refugee Trauma – Global Mental Health Trauma and Recovery certificate course. Her primary academic and research focus has been in the area of violence, with its relational trauma, and healing or recovery for Indigenous, and indeed all peoples. In 2006, while Head of the College of Indigenous Australian Peoples at Southern Cross University, she won the Carrick Neville Bonner Award for her curriculum development and innovative teaching practice. In 2011 she was awarded the Fritz Redlich Memorial award for Human Rights and Mental Health from the Harvard University Program for Refugee Trauma. She co-authored the Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Women’s Task Force on Violence Report, for the Queensland government. Her book in 2005: Trauma Trails – Recreating Songlines:The Transgenerational Effects of Trauma in Indigenous Australia, provides context to the life stories of people who have moved/been moved from their country in a process that has created trauma trails, and the changes that can occur in the lives of people as they make connections with each other, and share their stories of healing.

Emeritus Professor Judy Atkinson is a Jiman – Aboriginal Australian (from Central west Queensland) / Bundjalung (Northern New South Wales) woman, who also has Anglo-Celtic, and German heritage. She holds a BA from the University of Canberra, and a PhD from Queensland University of Technology. She is also a graduate of the Harvard University – Program for Refugee Trauma – Global Mental Health Trauma and Recovery certificate course. Her primary academic and research focus has been in the area of violence, with its relational trauma, and healing or recovery for Indigenous, and indeed all peoples. In 2006, while Head of the College of Indigenous Australian Peoples at Southern Cross University, she won the Carrick Neville Bonner Award for her curriculum development and innovative teaching practice. In 2011 she was awarded the Fritz Redlich Memorial award for Human Rights and Mental Health from the Harvard University Program for Refugee Trauma. She co-authored the Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Women’s Task Force on Violence Report, for the Queensland government. Her book in 2005: Trauma Trails – Recreating Songlines:The Transgenerational Effects of Trauma in Indigenous Australia, provides context to the life stories of people who have moved/been moved from their country in a process that has created trauma trails, and the changes that can occur in the lives of people as they make connections with each other, and share their stories of healing.

Emeritus Professor Judy Atkinson is a Jiman – Aboriginal Australian (from Central west Queensland) / Bundjalung (Northern New South Wales) woman, who also has Anglo-Celtic, and German heritage. She holds a BA from the University of Canberra, and a PhD from Queensland University of Technology. She is also a graduate of the Harvard University – Program for Refugee Trauma – Global Mental Health Trauma and Recovery certificate course. Her primary academic and research focus has been in the area of violence, with its relational trauma, and healing or recovery for Indigenous, and indeed all peoples. In 2006, while Head of the College of Indigenous Australian Peoples at Southern Cross University, she won the Carrick Neville Bonner Award for her curriculum development and innovative teaching practice. In 2011 she was awarded the Fritz Redlich Memorial award for Human Rights and Mental Health from the Harvard University Program for Refugee Trauma. She co-authored the Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Women’s Task Force on Violence Report, for the Queensland government. Her book in 2005: Trauma Trails – Recreating Songlines:The Transgenerational Effects of Trauma in Indigenous Australia, provides context to the life stories of people who have moved/been moved from their country in a process that has created trauma trails, and the changes that can occur in the lives of people as they make connections with each other, and share their stories of healing.

Emeritus Professor Judy Atkinson is a Jiman – Aboriginal Australian (from Central west Queensland) / Bundjalung (Northern New South Wales) woman, who also has Anglo-Celtic, and German heritage. She holds a BA from the University of Canberra, and a PhD from Queensland University of Technology. She is also a graduate of the Harvard University – Program for Refugee Trauma – Global Mental Health Trauma and Recovery certificate course. Her primary academic and research focus has been in the area of violence, with its relational trauma, and healing or recovery for Indigenous, and indeed all peoples. In 2006, while Head of the College of Indigenous Australian Peoples at Southern Cross University, she won the Carrick Neville Bonner Award for her curriculum development and innovative teaching practice. In 2011 she was awarded the Fritz Redlich Memorial award for Human Rights and Mental Health from the Harvard University Program for Refugee Trauma. She co-authored the Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Women’s Task Force on Violence Report, for the Queensland government. Her book in 2005: Trauma Trails – Recreating Songlines:The Transgenerational Effects of Trauma in Indigenous Australia, provides context to the life stories of people who have moved/been moved from their country in a process that has created trauma trails, and the changes that can occur in the lives of people as they make connections with each other, and share their stories of healing.

Dr Dan Siegel is currently clinical professor of psychiatry at the UCLA School of Medicine where he is on the faculty of the Centre for Culture, Brain, and Development and the Co-Director of the Mindful Awareness Research Centre (Los Angeles, USA). An award-winning educator, he is a Distinguished Fellow of the American Psychiatric Association and recipient of several honorary fellowships. Dr. Siegel is also the Executive Director of the Mindsight Institute, an educational organization, which offers online learning and in-person lectures that focus on how the development of mindsight in individuals, families and communities can be enhanced by examining the interface of human relationships and basic biological processes. Dr. Siegel has published extensively for the professional audience. He is the co-editor of the Handbook of Psychiatry and the author of numerous articles, chapters, and the internationally acclaimed text, The Developing Mind: How Relationships and the Brain Interact to Shape Who We Are (Guilford, 1999). This book introduces the field of interpersonal neurobiology, and has been utilized by a number of clinical and research organizations worldwide, including the U.S. Department of Justice, The Vatican’s Pontifical Council for the Family, Microsoft and Google. The Developing Mind, Second Edition was published on March 14, 2012. Dr. Siegel serves as the Founding Editor for the Norton Professional Series on Interpersonal Neurobiology which now includes more than 20 textbooks. His professional book, The Mindful Brain: Reflection and Attunement in the Cultivation of Well-Being (Norton, 2007), explores the nature of mindful awareness as a process that harnesses the social circuitry of the brain as it promotes mental, physical, and relational health. His latest professional text, The Mindful Therapist: A Clinician's Guide to Mindsight and Neural Integration (Norton, 2010), explores the application of focusing techniques for the clinician’s own development, as well as their clients' development of mindsight and neural integration. His latest book is Pocket Guide to Interpersonal Neurobiology:An Integrative Handbook of the Mind (Norton, 2012).

Dr Dan Siegel is currently clinical professor of psychiatry at the UCLA School of Medicine where he is on the faculty of the Centre for Culture, Brain, and Development and the Co-Director of the Mindful Awareness Research Centre (Los Angeles, USA). An award-winning educator, he is a Distinguished Fellow of the American Psychiatric Association and recipient of several honorary fellowships. Dr. Siegel is also the Executive Director of the Mindsight Institute, an educational organization, which offers online learning and in-person lectures that focus on how the development of mindsight in individuals, families and communities can be enhanced by examining the interface of human relationships and basic biological processes. Dr. Siegel has published extensively for the professional audience. He is the co-editor of the Handbook of Psychiatry and the author of numerous articles, chapters, and the internationally acclaimed text, The Developing Mind: How Relationships and the Brain Interact to Shape Who We Are (Guilford, 1999). This book introduces the field of interpersonal neurobiology, and has been utilized by a number of clinical and research organizations worldwide, including the U.S. Department of Justice, The Vatican’s Pontifical Council for the Family, Microsoft and Google. The Developing Mind, Second Edition was published on March 14, 2012. Dr. Siegel serves as the Founding Editor for the Norton Professional Series on Interpersonal Neurobiology which now includes more than 20 textbooks. His professional book, The Mindful Brain: Reflection and Attunement in the Cultivation of Well-Being (Norton, 2007), explores the nature of mindful awareness as a process that harnesses the social circuitry of the brain as it promotes mental, physical, and relational health. His latest professional text, The Mindful Therapist: A Clinician's Guide to Mindsight and Neural Integration (Norton, 2010), explores the application of focusing techniques for the clinician’s own development, as well as their clients' development of mindsight and neural integration. His latest book is Pocket Guide to Interpersonal Neurobiology:An Integrative Handbook of the Mind (Norton, 2012).

Dr Dan Siegel is currently clinical professor of psychiatry at the UCLA School of Medicine where he is on the faculty of the Centre for Culture, Brain, and Development and the Co-Director of the Mindful Awareness Research Centre (Los Angeles, USA). An award-winning educator, he is a Distinguished Fellow of the American Psychiatric Association and recipient of several honorary fellowships. Dr. Siegel is also the Executive Director of the Mindsight Institute, an educational organization, which offers online learning and in-person lectures that focus on how the development of mindsight in individuals, families and communities can be enhanced by examining the interface of human relationships and basic biological processes. Dr. Siegel has published extensively for the professional audience. He is the co-editor of the Handbook of Psychiatry and the author of numerous articles, chapters, and the internationally acclaimed text, The Developing Mind: How Relationships and the Brain Interact to Shape Who We Are (Guilford, 1999). This book introduces the field of interpersonal neurobiology, and has been utilized by a number of clinical and research organizations worldwide, including the U.S. Department of Justice, The Vatican’s Pontifical Council for the Family, Microsoft and Google. The Developing Mind, Second Edition was published on March 14, 2012. Dr. Siegel serves as the Founding Editor for the Norton Professional Series on Interpersonal Neurobiology which now includes more than 20 textbooks. His professional book, The Mindful Brain: Reflection and Attunement in the Cultivation of Well-Being (Norton, 2007), explores the nature of mindful awareness as a process that harnesses the social circuitry of the brain as it promotes mental, physical, and relational health. His latest professional text, The Mindful Therapist: A Clinician's Guide to Mindsight and Neural Integration (Norton, 2010), explores the application of focusing techniques for the clinician’s own development, as well as their clients' development of mindsight and neural integration. His latest book is Pocket Guide to Interpersonal Neurobiology:An Integrative Handbook of the Mind (Norton, 2012).

Dr Dan Siegel is currently clinical professor of psychiatry at the UCLA School of Medicine where he is on the faculty of the Centre for Culture, Brain, and Development and the Co-Director of the Mindful Awareness Research Centre (Los Angeles, USA). An award-winning educator, he is a Distinguished Fellow of the American Psychiatric Association and recipient of several honorary fellowships. Dr. Siegel is also the Executive Director of the Mindsight Institute, an educational organization, which offers online learning and in-person lectures that focus on how the development of mindsight in individuals, families and communities can be enhanced by examining the interface of human relationships and basic biological processes. Dr. Siegel has published extensively for the professional audience. He is the co-editor of the Handbook of Psychiatry and the author of numerous articles, chapters, and the internationally acclaimed text, The Developing Mind: How Relationships and the Brain Interact to Shape Who We Are (Guilford, 1999). This book introduces the field of interpersonal neurobiology, and has been utilized by a number of clinical and research organizations worldwide, including the U.S. Department of Justice, The Vatican’s Pontifical Council for the Family, Microsoft and Google. The Developing Mind, Second Edition was published on March 14, 2012. Dr. Siegel serves as the Founding Editor for the Norton Professional Series on Interpersonal Neurobiology which now includes more than 20 textbooks. His professional book, The Mindful Brain: Reflection and Attunement in the Cultivation of Well-Being (Norton, 2007), explores the nature of mindful awareness as a process that harnesses the social circuitry of the brain as it promotes mental, physical, and relational health. His latest professional text, The Mindful Therapist: A Clinician's Guide to Mindsight and Neural Integration (Norton, 2010), explores the application of focusing techniques for the clinician’s own development, as well as their clients' development of mindsight and neural integration. His latest book is Pocket Guide to Interpersonal Neurobiology:An Integrative Handbook of the Mind (Norton, 2012).

Dr Stephen Porges is Distinguished University Scientist at Indiana University Bloomington where he directs the Trauma Research Center in the Kinsey Institute. He is Professor of Psychiatry at the University of North Carolina, Professor Emeritus at the University of Illinois at Chicago, where he directed the Brain-Body Center in the Department of Psychiatry, and Professor Emeritus at the University of Maryland, where he chaired the Department of Human Development and directed the Institute for Child Study. He is a former president of the Society for Psychophysiological Research and also of the Federation of Behavioral, Psychological, and Cognitive Sciences. He is a former recipient of a National Institute of Mental Health Research Scientist Development Award. He has published more than 200 peer reviewed scientific papers across several disciplines including anesthesiology, critical care medicine, ergonomics, exercise physiology, gerontology, neurology, obstetrics, pediatrics, psychiatry, psychology, space medicine, and substance abuse. In 1994 he proposed the Polyvagal Theory, a theory that links the evolution of the vertebrate autonomic nervous system to the emergence of social behavior. The theory provides insights into the mechanisms mediating symptoms observed in several behavioral, psychiatric, and physical disorders. The theory has stimulated research and treatments that emphasize the importance of physiological state and behavioral regulation in the expression of several psychiatric disorders and provides a theoretical perspective to study and to treat stress and trauma. He is the author of The Polyvagal Theory: Neurophysiological foundations of Emotions, Attachment, Communication, and Self-regulation (Norton, 2011) and is currently writing Clinical Applications of the Polyvagal Theory: The Transformative Power of Feeling Safe. Dr Sue Carter is Director of the Kinsey Institute and Rudy Professor of Biology at Indiana University Bloomington and Professor Emeritus at the University of Illinois at Chicago, where she co-directed the Brain-Body Center in the Department of Psychiatry. She formerly held the position of Distinguished University Professor of Biology at the University of Maryland and prior to that was Professor in the Departments of Psychology and Ecology, Ethology and Evolution at the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign. Dr Carter is past president of the International Behavioral Neuroscience Society and holds fellow status in that Society and in the American Association for the Advancement of Science. She is a former recipient of a National Institute of Mental Health Research Scientist Award. She has authored more than 275 publications, including editorship of 5 books including “Attachment and Bonding: A New Synthesis” (MIT Press, 2006). Dr Carter discovered the important role that oxytocin plays in establishment of social bonds and parental behavior.

Dr Stephen Porges is Distinguished University Scientist at Indiana University Bloomington where he directs the Trauma Research Center in the Kinsey Institute. He is Professor of Psychiatry at the University of North Carolina, Professor Emeritus at the University of Illinois at Chicago, where he directed the Brain-Body Center in the Department of Psychiatry, and Professor Emeritus at the University of Maryland, where he chaired the Department of Human Development and directed the Institute for Child Study. He is a former president of the Society for Psychophysiological Research and also of the Federation of Behavioral, Psychological, and Cognitive Sciences. He is a former recipient of a National Institute of Mental Health Research Scientist Development Award. He has published more than 200 peer reviewed scientific papers across several disciplines including anesthesiology, critical care medicine, ergonomics, exercise physiology, gerontology, neurology, obstetrics, pediatrics, psychiatry, psychology, space medicine, and substance abuse. In 1994 he proposed the Polyvagal Theory, a theory that links the evolution of the vertebrate autonomic nervous system to the emergence of social behavior. The theory provides insights into the mechanisms mediating symptoms observed in several behavioral, psychiatric, and physical disorders. The theory has stimulated research and treatments that emphasize the importance of physiological state and behavioral regulation in the expression of several psychiatric disorders and provides a theoretical perspective to study and to treat stress and trauma. He is the author of The Polyvagal Theory: Neurophysiological foundations of Emotions, Attachment, Communication, and Self-regulation (Norton, 2011) and is currently writing Clinical Applications of the Polyvagal Theory: The Transformative Power of Feeling Safe. Dr Sue Carter is Director of the Kinsey Institute and Rudy Professor of Biology at Indiana University Bloomington and Professor Emeritus at the University of Illinois at Chicago, where she co-directed the Brain-Body Center in the Department of Psychiatry. She formerly held the position of Distinguished University Professor of Biology at the University of Maryland and prior to that was Professor in the Departments of Psychology and Ecology, Ethology and Evolution at the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign. Dr Carter is past president of the International Behavioral Neuroscience Society and holds fellow status in that Society and in the American Association for the Advancement of Science. She is a former recipient of a National Institute of Mental Health Research Scientist Award. She has authored more than 275 publications, including editorship of 5 books including “Attachment and Bonding: A New Synthesis” (MIT Press, 2006). Dr Carter discovered the important role that oxytocin plays in establishment of social bonds and parental behavior.

Dr Stephen Porges is Distinguished University Scientist at Indiana University Bloomington where he directs the Trauma Research Center in the Kinsey Institute. He is Professor of Psychiatry at the University of North Carolina, Professor Emeritus at the University of Illinois at Chicago, where he directed the Brain-Body Center in the Department of Psychiatry, and Professor Emeritus at the University of Maryland, where he chaired the Department of Human Development and directed the Institute for Child Study. He is a former president of the Society for Psychophysiological Research and also of the Federation of Behavioral, Psychological, and Cognitive Sciences. He is a former recipient of a National Institute of Mental Health Research Scientist Development Award. He has published more than 200 peer reviewed scientific papers across several disciplines including anesthesiology, critical care medicine, ergonomics, exercise physiology, gerontology, neurology, obstetrics, pediatrics, psychiatry, psychology, space medicine, and substance abuse. In 1994 he proposed the Polyvagal Theory, a theory that links the evolution of the vertebrate autonomic nervous system to the emergence of social behavior. The theory provides insights into the mechanisms mediating symptoms observed in several behavioral, psychiatric, and physical disorders. The theory has stimulated research and treatments that emphasize the importance of physiological state and behavioral regulation in the expression of several psychiatric disorders and provides a theoretical perspective to study and to treat stress and trauma. He is the author of The Polyvagal Theory: Neurophysiological foundations of Emotions, Attachment, Communication, and Self-regulation (Norton, 2011) and is currently writing Clinical Applications of the Polyvagal Theory: The Transformative Power of Feeling Safe. Dr Sue Carter is Director of the Kinsey Institute and Rudy Professor of Biology at Indiana University Bloomington and Professor Emeritus at the University of Illinois at Chicago, where she co-directed the Brain-Body Center in the Department of Psychiatry. She formerly held the position of Distinguished University Professor of Biology at the University of Maryland and prior to that was Professor in the Departments of Psychology and Ecology, Ethology and Evolution at the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign. Dr Carter is past president of the International Behavioral Neuroscience Society and holds fellow status in that Society and in the American Association for the Advancement of Science. She is a former recipient of a National Institute of Mental Health Research Scientist Award. She has authored more than 275 publications, including editorship of 5 books including “Attachment and Bonding: A New Synthesis” (MIT Press, 2006). Dr Carter discovered the important role that oxytocin plays in establishment of social bonds and parental behavior.

Dr Stephen Porges is Distinguished University Scientist at Indiana University Bloomington where he directs the Trauma Research Center in the Kinsey Institute. He is Professor of Psychiatry at the University of North Carolina, Professor Emeritus at the University of Illinois at Chicago, where he directed the Brain-Body Center in the Department of Psychiatry, and Professor Emeritus at the University of Maryland, where he chaired the Department of Human Development and directed the Institute for Child Study. He is a former president of the Society for Psychophysiological Research and also of the Federation of Behavioral, Psychological, and Cognitive Sciences. He is a former recipient of a National Institute of Mental Health Research Scientist Development Award. He has published more than 200 peer reviewed scientific papers across several disciplines including anesthesiology, critical care medicine, ergonomics, exercise physiology, gerontology, neurology, obstetrics, pediatrics, psychiatry, psychology, space medicine, and substance abuse. In 1994 he proposed the Polyvagal Theory, a theory that links the evolution of the vertebrate autonomic nervous system to the emergence of social behavior. The theory provides insights into the mechanisms mediating symptoms observed in several behavioral, psychiatric, and physical disorders. The theory has stimulated research and treatments that emphasize the importance of physiological state and behavioral regulation in the expression of several psychiatric disorders and provides a theoretical perspective to study and to treat stress and trauma. He is the author of The Polyvagal Theory: Neurophysiological foundations of Emotions, Attachment, Communication, and Self-regulation (Norton, 2011) and is currently writing Clinical Applications of the Polyvagal Theory: The Transformative Power of Feeling Safe. Dr Sue Carter is Director of the Kinsey Institute and Rudy Professor of Biology at Indiana University Bloomington and Professor Emeritus at the University of Illinois at Chicago, where she co-directed the Brain-Body Center in the Department of Psychiatry. She formerly held the position of Distinguished University Professor of Biology at the University of Maryland and prior to that was Professor in the Departments of Psychology and Ecology, Ethology and Evolution at the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign. Dr Carter is past president of the International Behavioral Neuroscience Society and holds fellow status in that Society and in the American Association for the Advancement of Science. She is a former recipient of a National Institute of Mental Health Research Scientist Award. She has authored more than 275 publications, including editorship of 5 books including “Attachment and Bonding: A New Synthesis” (MIT Press, 2006). Dr Carter discovered the important role that oxytocin plays in establishment of social bonds and parental behavior.

Cathy Malchiodi, PhD, LPAT, LPCC, ATR-BC,  is a leading international expert, syndicated writer, and educator in the fields of art therapy and art in healthcare. She is a research psychologist, a Board Certified and Licensed Professional Art Therapist, Licensed Professional Clinical Counselor, and has had over 25 years of experience and education in trauma intervention and disaster relief and integrative approaches to health. Cathy is the founder, director and lead faculty member of the Trauma-Informed Practices and Expressive Arts Therapy Institute, dedicated to teaching trauma-informed intervention that integrates neurodevelopment, somatic approaches, mindfulness, and positive psychology. In particular, it supports the use of creative arts therapies including art therapy, music therapy and movement therapy, play therapy, integrative expressive arts therapies, and mind-body approaches for recovery and wellness in children, adults and families. Cathy is also the President of Art Therapy Without Borders and is one of its founders.

Cathy has published numerous books all of which are standards in the field, including:

•    The Art Therapy Sourcebook
•    The Soul’s Palette: Drawing on Art’s Transformative Powers
•    Breaking the Silence: Art Therapy with Children from Violent Homes
•    Handbook or Art Therapy (1st and 2nd eds.)
•    Expressive Therapies, Creative Interventions with Traumatized Children
•    Medical Art Therapy with Adults
•    Medical Art Therapy with Children
•    Understanding Children’s Drawings

She has served as Editor for several journals including Trauma and Loss: Research and Interventions  and Art Therapy: Journal of the American Art Therapy Association. She has also published more than 50 of invited book chapters and refereed articles and reviews various mental health and medical journals. Cathy’s blog, Arts and Health at Psychology Today Online covers topics related to art therapy, expressive arts therapy, trauma, body-mind approaches, neuroscience and the arts, creativity, and integrative health practices.

Cathy is a recognized force in international education, program development and advocacy for trauma survivors and the accessibility of trauma-informed care. She has had more than 25 years of experience facilitating art therapy and expressive arts therapies as trauma-informed intervention with children, adults, families and communities. Her work includes providing services and programs to children and women exposed to domestic violence; physical abuse and neglect; sexual abuse; witness to homicide and violence; disaster relief; bullying; and medical illness, including grief and loss. Cathy’s recent work with the Department of Defense and their families focuses on resilience-building and posttraumatic “success” with those challenged by posttraumatic stress and/or traumatic brain injuries.

Cathy Malchiodi, PhD, LPAT, LPCC, ATR-BC,  is a leading international expert, syndicated writer, and educator in the fields of art therapy and art in healthcare. She is a research psychologist, a Board Certified and Licensed Professional Art Therapist, Licensed Professional Clinical Counselor, and has had over 25 years of experience and education in trauma intervention and disaster relief and integrative approaches to health. Cathy is the founder, director and lead faculty member of the Trauma-Informed Practices and Expressive Arts Therapy Institute, dedicated to teaching trauma-informed intervention that integrates neurodevelopment, somatic approaches, mindfulness, and positive psychology. In particular, it supports the use of creative arts therapies including art therapy, music therapy and movement therapy, play therapy, integrative expressive arts therapies, and mind-body approaches for recovery and wellness in children, adults and families. Cathy is also the President of Art Therapy Without Borders and is one of its founders.

Cathy has published numerous books all of which are standards in the field, including:

•    The Art Therapy Sourcebook
•    The Soul’s Palette: Drawing on Art’s Transformative Powers
•    Breaking the Silence: Art Therapy with Children from Violent Homes
•    Handbook or Art Therapy (1st and 2nd eds.)
•    Expressive Therapies, Creative Interventions with Traumatized Children
•    Medical Art Therapy with Adults
•    Medical Art Therapy with Children
•    Understanding Children’s Drawings

She has served as Editor for several journals including Trauma and Loss: Research and Interventions  and Art Therapy: Journal of the American Art Therapy Association. She has also published more than 50 of invited book chapters and refereed articles and reviews various mental health and medical journals. Cathy’s blog, Arts and Health at Psychology Today Online covers topics related to art therapy, expressive arts therapy, trauma, body-mind approaches, neuroscience and the arts, creativity, and integrative health practices.

Cathy is a recognized force in international education, program development and advocacy for trauma survivors and the accessibility of trauma-informed care. She has had more than 25 years of experience facilitating art therapy and expressive arts therapies as trauma-informed intervention with children, adults, families and communities. Her work includes providing services and programs to children and women exposed to domestic violence; physical abuse and neglect; sexual abuse; witness to homicide and violence; disaster relief; bullying; and medical illness, including grief and loss. Cathy’s recent work with the Department of Defense and their families focuses on resilience-building and posttraumatic “success” with those challenged by posttraumatic stress and/or traumatic brain injuries.

Cathy Malchiodi, PhD, LPAT, LPCC, ATR-BC,  is a leading international expert, syndicated writer, and educator in the fields of art therapy and art in healthcare. She is a research psychologist, a Board Certified and Licensed Professional Art Therapist, Licensed Professional Clinical Counselor, and has had over 25 years of experience and education in trauma intervention and disaster relief and integrative approaches to health. Cathy is the founder, director and lead faculty member of the Trauma-Informed Practices and Expressive Arts Therapy Institute, dedicated to teaching trauma-informed intervention that integrates neurodevelopment, somatic approaches, mindfulness, and positive psychology. In particular, it supports the use of creative arts therapies including art therapy, music therapy and movement therapy, play therapy, integrative expressive arts therapies, and mind-body approaches for recovery and wellness in children, adults and families. Cathy is also the President of Art Therapy Without Borders and is one of its founders.

Cathy has published numerous books all of which are standards in the field, including:

•    The Art Therapy Sourcebook
•    The Soul’s Palette: Drawing on Art’s Transformative Powers
•    Breaking the Silence: Art Therapy with Children from Violent Homes
•    Handbook or Art Therapy (1st and 2nd eds.)
•    Expressive Therapies, Creative Interventions with Traumatized Children
•    Medical Art Therapy with Adults
•    Medical Art Therapy with Children
•    Understanding Children’s Drawings

She has served as Editor for several journals including Trauma and Loss: Research and Interventions  and Art Therapy: Journal of the American Art Therapy Association. She has also published more than 50 of invited book chapters and refereed articles and reviews various mental health and medical journals. Cathy’s blog, Arts and Health at Psychology Today Online covers topics related to art therapy, expressive arts therapy, trauma, body-mind approaches, neuroscience and the arts, creativity, and integrative health practices.

Cathy is a recognized force in international education, program development and advocacy for trauma survivors and the accessibility of trauma-informed care. She has had more than 25 years of experience facilitating art therapy and expressive arts therapies as trauma-informed intervention with children, adults, families and communities. Her work includes providing services and programs to children and women exposed to domestic violence; physical abuse and neglect; sexual abuse; witness to homicide and violence; disaster relief; bullying; and medical illness, including grief and loss. Cathy’s recent work with the Department of Defense and their families focuses on resilience-building and posttraumatic “success” with those challenged by posttraumatic stress and/or traumatic brain injuries.

Kim Golding is a Clinical Psychologist working in Worcestershire, England. Her career has focused on working with children and families within the NHS since her training was completed in 1985. Kim has been involved in the establishment and evaluation of the Integrated Service for Looked After Children. ISL provides support for foster, adoptive and residential parents, schools and the range of professionals around the children growing up in care or in adoptive families. She is the author of Nurturing Attachments: Supporting Children who are Fostered and Adopted, co-author with Dan Hughes of Creating Loving Attachments: Parenting with Pace and lead author of observational checklists designed for use in educational settings, Observing Children with Attachment Difficulties in Preschool Settings. She has written a group work programme to use with foster carers and adopters: The Nurturing Attachments Training Resource. All of these have been published by Jessica Kingsley Publishers. She is currently working on a book of short therapeutic stories for children, their parents and the practitioners who support them.

Dr. Dan Hughes has been a psychologist specializing in the treatment of children and youth with severe emotional and behavioural problems.  His work has focused on children and youth who experienced developmental trauma and attachment disorganization along with their foster and adoptive families. Dan has borrowed heavily from attachment theory and neurobiology research to develop a model of treatment that he calls Dyadic Developmental Psychotherapy.  DDP is a nondirective yet directive, client-cantered approach, influenced by psychodynamic, gestalt, Rogerian, and Ericksonian traditions, brought together within the dance of affect attunement that is seen most powerfully in the relationship between a parent and her/his infant and toddler. The DDP model is described well inBuilding the Bonds of Attachment, 2nd Edition (2006). He expanded the treatment model so that it was applicable to all families, which led to the publication of Attachment-Focused Family Therapy Workbook in 2011 and Attachment-Focused Parenting in 2009.  In 2012 he wrote Brain-Based Parenting with Jon Baylin and Creating Loving Attachments with Kim Golding.

Kim Golding is a Clinical Psychologist working in Worcestershire, England. Her career has focused on working with children and families within the NHS since her training was completed in 1985. Kim has been involved in the establishment and evaluation of the Integrated Service for Looked After Children. ISL provides support for foster, adoptive and residential parents, schools and the range of professionals around the children growing up in care or in adoptive families. She is the author of Nurturing Attachments: Supporting Children who are Fostered and Adopted, co-author with Dan Hughes of Creating Loving Attachments: Parenting with Pace and lead author of observational checklists designed for use in educational settings, Observing Children with Attachment Difficulties in Preschool Settings. She has written a group work programme to use with foster carers and adopters: The Nurturing Attachments Training Resource. All of these have been published by Jessica Kingsley Publishers. She is currently working on a book of short therapeutic stories for children, their parents and the practitioners who support them.

Dr. Dan Hughes has been a psychologist specializing in the treatment of children and youth with severe emotional and behavioural problems.  His work has focused on children and youth who experienced developmental trauma and attachment disorganization along with their foster and adoptive families. Dan has borrowed heavily from attachment theory and neurobiology research to develop a model of treatment that he calls Dyadic Developmental Psychotherapy.  DDP is a nondirective yet directive, client-cantered approach, influenced by psychodynamic, gestalt, Rogerian, and Ericksonian traditions, brought together within the dance of affect attunement that is seen most powerfully in the relationship between a parent and her/his infant and toddler. The DDP model is described well inBuilding the Bonds of Attachment, 2nd Edition (2006). He expanded the treatment model so that it was applicable to all families, which led to the publication of Attachment-Focused Family Therapy Workbook in 2011 and Attachment-Focused Parenting in 2009.  In 2012 he wrote Brain-Based Parenting with Jon Baylin and Creating Loving Attachments with Kim Golding.

Kim Golding is a Clinical Psychologist working in Worcestershire, England. Her career has focused on working with children and families within the NHS since her training was completed in 1985. Kim has been involved in the establishment and evaluation of the Integrated Service for Looked After Children. ISL provides support for foster, adoptive and residential parents, schools and the range of professionals around the children growing up in care or in adoptive families. She is the author of Nurturing Attachments: Supporting Children who are Fostered and Adopted, co-author with Dan Hughes of Creating Loving Attachments: Parenting with Pace and lead author of observational checklists designed for use in educational settings, Observing Children with Attachment Difficulties in Preschool Settings. She has written a group work programme to use with foster carers and adopters: The Nurturing Attachments Training Resource. All of these have been published by Jessica Kingsley Publishers. She is currently working on a book of short therapeutic stories for children, their parents and the practitioners who support them.

Dr. Dan Hughes has been a psychologist specializing in the treatment of children and youth with severe emotional and behavioural problems.  His work has focused on children and youth who experienced developmental trauma and attachment disorganization along with their foster and adoptive families. Dan has borrowed heavily from attachment theory and neurobiology research to develop a model of treatment that he calls Dyadic Developmental Psychotherapy.  DDP is a nondirective yet directive, client-cantered approach, influenced by psychodynamic, gestalt, Rogerian, and Ericksonian traditions, brought together within the dance of affect attunement that is seen most powerfully in the relationship between a parent and her/his infant and toddler. The DDP model is described well inBuilding the Bonds of Attachment, 2nd Edition (2006). He expanded the treatment model so that it was applicable to all families, which led to the publication of Attachment-Focused Family Therapy Workbook in 2011 and Attachment-Focused Parenting in 2009.  In 2012 he wrote Brain-Based Parenting with Jon Baylin and Creating Loving Attachments with Kim Golding.

Kim Golding is a Clinical Psychologist working in Worcestershire, England. Her career has focused on working with children and families within the NHS since her training was completed in 1985. Kim has been involved in the establishment and evaluation of the Integrated Service for Looked After Children. ISL provides support for foster, adoptive and residential parents, schools and the range of professionals around the children growing up in care or in adoptive families. She is the author of Nurturing Attachments: Supporting Children who are Fostered and Adopted, co-author with Dan Hughes of Creating Loving Attachments: Parenting with Pace and lead author of observational checklists designed for use in educational settings, Observing Children with Attachment Difficulties in Preschool Settings. She has written a group work programme to use with foster carers and adopters: The Nurturing Attachments Training Resource. All of these have been published by Jessica Kingsley Publishers. She is currently working on a book of short therapeutic stories for children, their parents and the practitioners who support them.

Dr. Dan Hughes has been a psychologist specializing in the treatment of children and youth with severe emotional and behavioural problems.  His work has focused on children and youth who experienced developmental trauma and attachment disorganization along with their foster and adoptive families. Dan has borrowed heavily from attachment theory and neurobiology research to develop a model of treatment that he calls Dyadic Developmental Psychotherapy.  DDP is a nondirective yet directive, client-cantered approach, influenced by psychodynamic, gestalt, Rogerian, and Ericksonian traditions, brought together within the dance of affect attunement that is seen most powerfully in the relationship between a parent and her/his infant and toddler. The DDP model is described well inBuilding the Bonds of Attachment, 2nd Edition (2006). He expanded the treatment model so that it was applicable to all families, which led to the publication of Attachment-Focused Family Therapy Workbook in 2011 and Attachment-Focused Parenting in 2009.  In 2012 he wrote Brain-Based Parenting with Jon Baylin and Creating Loving Attachments with Kim Golding.

Dr Dan Siegel is currently clinical professor of psychiatry at the UCLA School of Medicine where he is on the faculty of the Centre for Culture, Brain, and Development and the Co-Director of the Mindful Awareness Research Centre (Los Angeles, USA). An award-winning educator, he is a Distinguished Fellow of the American Psychiatric Association and recipient of several honorary fellowships. Dr. Siegel is also the Executive Director of the Mindsight Institute, an educational organization, which offers online learning and in-person lectures that focus on how the development of mindsight in individuals, families and communities can be enhanced by examining the interface of human relationships and basic biological processes. Dr. Siegel has published extensively for the professional audience. He is the co-editor of the Handbook of Psychiatry and the author of numerous articles, chapters, and the internationally acclaimed text, The Developing Mind: How Relationships and the Brain Interact to Shape Who We Are (Guilford, 1999). This book introduces the field of interpersonal neurobiology, and has been utilized by a number of clinical and research organizations worldwide, including the U.S. Department of Justice, The Vatican’s Pontifical Council for the Family, Microsoft and Google. The Developing Mind, Second Edition was published on March 14, 2012. Dr. Siegel serves as the Founding Editor for the Norton Professional Series on Interpersonal Neurobiology which now includes more than 20 textbooks. His professional book, The Mindful Brain: Reflection and Attunement in the Cultivation of Well-Being (Norton, 2007), explores the nature of mindful awareness as a process that harnesses the social circuitry of the brain as it promotes mental, physical, and relational health. His latest professional text, The Mindful Therapist: A Clinician's Guide to Mindsight and Neural Integration (Norton, 2010), explores the application of focusing techniques for the clinician’s own development, as well as their clients' development of mindsight and neural integration. His latest book is Pocket Guide to Interpersonal Neurobiology:An Integrative Handbook of the Mind (Norton, 2012).

Dr Dan Siegel is currently clinical professor of psychiatry at the UCLA School of Medicine where he is on the faculty of the Centre for Culture, Brain, and Development and the Co-Director of the Mindful Awareness Research Centre (Los Angeles, USA). An award-winning educator, he is a Distinguished Fellow of the American Psychiatric Association and recipient of several honorary fellowships. Dr. Siegel is also the Executive Director of the Mindsight Institute, an educational organization, which offers online learning and in-person lectures that focus on how the development of mindsight in individuals, families and communities can be enhanced by examining the interface of human relationships and basic biological processes. Dr. Siegel has published extensively for the professional audience. He is the co-editor of the Handbook of Psychiatry and the author of numerous articles, chapters, and the internationally acclaimed text, The Developing Mind: How Relationships and the Brain Interact to Shape Who We Are (Guilford, 1999). This book introduces the field of interpersonal neurobiology, and has been utilized by a number of clinical and research organizations worldwide, including the U.S. Department of Justice, The Vatican’s Pontifical Council for the Family, Microsoft and Google. The Developing Mind, Second Edition was published on March 14, 2012. Dr. Siegel serves as the Founding Editor for the Norton Professional Series on Interpersonal Neurobiology which now includes more than 20 textbooks. His professional book, The Mindful Brain: Reflection and Attunement in the Cultivation of Well-Being (Norton, 2007), explores the nature of mindful awareness as a process that harnesses the social circuitry of the brain as it promotes mental, physical, and relational health. His latest professional text, The Mindful Therapist: A Clinician's Guide to Mindsight and Neural Integration (Norton, 2010), explores the application of focusing techniques for the clinician’s own development, as well as their clients' development of mindsight and neural integration. His latest book is Pocket Guide to Interpersonal Neurobiology:An Integrative Handbook of the Mind (Norton, 2012).

Dr Dan Siegel is currently clinical professor of psychiatry at the UCLA School of Medicine where he is on the faculty of the Centre for Culture, Brain, and Development and the Co-Director of the Mindful Awareness Research Centre (Los Angeles, USA). An award-winning educator, he is a Distinguished Fellow of the American Psychiatric Association and recipient of several honorary fellowships. Dr. Siegel is also the Executive Director of the Mindsight Institute, an educational organization, which offers online learning and in-person lectures that focus on how the development of mindsight in individuals, families and communities can be enhanced by examining the interface of human relationships and basic biological processes. Dr. Siegel has published extensively for the professional audience. He is the co-editor of the Handbook of Psychiatry and the author of numerous articles, chapters, and the internationally acclaimed text, The Developing Mind: How Relationships and the Brain Interact to Shape Who We Are (Guilford, 1999). This book introduces the field of interpersonal neurobiology, and has been utilized by a number of clinical and research organizations worldwide, including the U.S. Department of Justice, The Vatican’s Pontifical Council for the Family, Microsoft and Google. The Developing Mind, Second Edition was published on March 14, 2012. Dr. Siegel serves as the Founding Editor for the Norton Professional Series on Interpersonal Neurobiology which now includes more than 20 textbooks. His professional book, The Mindful Brain: Reflection and Attunement in the Cultivation of Well-Being (Norton, 2007), explores the nature of mindful awareness as a process that harnesses the social circuitry of the brain as it promotes mental, physical, and relational health. His latest professional text, The Mindful Therapist: A Clinician's Guide to Mindsight and Neural Integration (Norton, 2010), explores the application of focusing techniques for the clinician’s own development, as well as their clients' development of mindsight and neural integration. His latest book is Pocket Guide to Interpersonal Neurobiology:An Integrative Handbook of the Mind (Norton, 2012).

Dr Dan Siegel is currently clinical professor of psychiatry at the UCLA School of Medicine where he is on the faculty of the Centre for Culture, Brain, and Development and the Co-Director of the Mindful Awareness Research Centre (Los Angeles, USA). An award-winning educator, he is a Distinguished Fellow of the American Psychiatric Association and recipient of several honorary fellowships. Dr. Siegel is also the Executive Director of the Mindsight Institute, an educational organization, which offers online learning and in-person lectures that focus on how the development of mindsight in individuals, families and communities can be enhanced by examining the interface of human relationships and basic biological processes. Dr. Siegel has published extensively for the professional audience. He is the co-editor of the Handbook of Psychiatry and the author of numerous articles, chapters, and the internationally acclaimed text, The Developing Mind: How Relationships and the Brain Interact to Shape Who We Are (Guilford, 1999). This book introduces the field of interpersonal neurobiology, and has been utilized by a number of clinical and research organizations worldwide, including the U.S. Department of Justice, The Vatican’s Pontifical Council for the Family, Microsoft and Google. The Developing Mind, Second Edition was published on March 14, 2012. Dr. Siegel serves as the Founding Editor for the Norton Professional Series on Interpersonal Neurobiology which now includes more than 20 textbooks. His professional book, The Mindful Brain: Reflection and Attunement in the Cultivation of Well-Being (Norton, 2007), explores the nature of mindful awareness as a process that harnesses the social circuitry of the brain as it promotes mental, physical, and relational health. His latest professional text, The Mindful Therapist: A Clinician's Guide to Mindsight and Neural Integration (Norton, 2010), explores the application of focusing techniques for the clinician’s own development, as well as their clients' development of mindsight and neural integration. His latest book is Pocket Guide to Interpersonal Neurobiology:An Integrative Handbook of the Mind (Norton, 2012).

Dr Dan Hughes has been a psychologist specializing in the treatment of children and youth with severe emotional and behavioural problems. His work has focused on children and youth who experienced developmental trauma and attachment disorganization along with their foster and adoptive families. Dan has borrowed heavily from attachment theory and neurobiology research to develop a model of treatment that he calls Dyadic Developmental Psychotherapy. DDP is a nondirective yet directive, client-cantered approach, influenced by psychodynamic, gestalt, Rogerian, and Ericksonian traditions, brought together within the dance of affect attunement that is seen most powerfully in the relationship between a parent and her/his infant and toddler. The DDP model is described well in Building the Bonds of Attachment, 2nd Edition (2006). He expanded the treatment model so that it was applicable to all families, which led to the publication of Attachment-Focused Family Therapy Workbook in 2011 and Attachment-Focused Parenting in 2009. In 2012 he wrote Brain-Based Parenting with Jon Baylin and Creating Loving Attachments with Kim Golding.

Dr Dan Hughes has been a psychologist specializing in the treatment of children and youth with severe emotional and behavioural problems. His work has focused on children and youth who experienced developmental trauma and attachment disorganization along with their foster and adoptive families. Dan has borrowed heavily from attachment theory and neurobiology research to develop a model of treatment that he calls Dyadic Developmental Psychotherapy. DDP is a nondirective yet directive, client-cantered approach, influenced by psychodynamic, gestalt, Rogerian, and Ericksonian traditions, brought together within the dance of affect attunement that is seen most powerfully in the relationship between a parent and her/his infant and toddler. The DDP model is described well in Building the Bonds of Attachment, 2nd Edition (2006). He expanded the treatment model so that it was applicable to all families, which led to the publication of Attachment-Focused Family Therapy Workbook in 2011 and Attachment-Focused Parenting in 2009. In 2012 he wrote Brain-Based Parenting with Jon Baylin and Creating Loving Attachments with Kim Golding.

Dr Dan Hughes has been a psychologist specializing in the treatment of children and youth with severe emotional and behavioural problems. His work has focused on children and youth who experienced developmental trauma and attachment disorganization along with their foster and adoptive families. Dan has borrowed heavily from attachment theory and neurobiology research to develop a model of treatment that he calls Dyadic Developmental Psychotherapy. DDP is a nondirective yet directive, client-cantered approach, influenced by psychodynamic, gestalt, Rogerian, and Ericksonian traditions, brought together within the dance of affect attunement that is seen most powerfully in the relationship between a parent and her/his infant and toddler. The DDP model is described well in Building the Bonds of Attachment, 2nd Edition (2006). He expanded the treatment model so that it was applicable to all families, which led to the publication of Attachment-Focused Family Therapy Workbook in 2011 and Attachment-Focused Parenting in 2009. In 2012 he wrote Brain-Based Parenting with Jon Baylin and Creating Loving Attachments with Kim Golding.

Dr Dan Hughes has been a psychologist specializing in the treatment of children and youth with severe emotional and behavioural problems. His work has focused on children and youth who experienced developmental trauma and attachment disorganization along with their foster and adoptive families. Dan has borrowed heavily from attachment theory and neurobiology research to develop a model of treatment that he calls Dyadic Developmental Psychotherapy. DDP is a nondirective yet directive, client-cantered approach, influenced by psychodynamic, gestalt, Rogerian, and Ericksonian traditions, brought together within the dance of affect attunement that is seen most powerfully in the relationship between a parent and her/his infant and toddler. The DDP model is described well in Building the Bonds of Attachment, 2nd Edition (2006). He expanded the treatment model so that it was applicable to all families, which led to the publication of Attachment-Focused Family Therapy Workbook in 2011 and Attachment-Focused Parenting in 2009. In 2012 he wrote Brain-Based Parenting with Jon Baylin and Creating Loving Attachments with Kim Golding.

Cindy Blackstock is the Executive Director of the First Nations Child and Family Caring Society of Canada and an associate professor at the University of Alberta. A member of the Gitksan Nation, Blackstock has worked in the field of child and family services for over 20 years. An author of over 50 publications, her key interests include exploring, and addressing, the causes of disadvantage for Aboriginal children and families and promoting equitable and culturally based interventions. She holds fellowships with the Ashoka Foundation and the J.W. McConnell Family Foundation and has received numerous awards and distinctions, including a National Aboriginal Achievement Award.

Cindy Blackstock is the Executive Director of the First Nations Child and Family Caring Society of Canada and an associate professor at the University of Alberta. A member of the Gitksan Nation, Blackstock has worked in the field of child and family services for over 20 years. An author of over 50 publications, her key interests include exploring, and addressing, the causes of disadvantage for Aboriginal children and families and promoting equitable and culturally based interventions. She holds fellowships with the Ashoka Foundation and the J.W. McConnell Family Foundation and has received numerous awards and distinctions, including a National Aboriginal Achievement Award.

Dr Allan Schore is on the clinical faculty of the Department of Psychiatry and Biobehavioural Sciences, UCLA David Geffen School of Medicine, and at the UCLA Centre for Culture, Brain, and Development (Los Angeles USA). He is author of four seminal volumes, Affect Regulation and the Origin of the Self, Affect Dysregulation and Disorders of the Self, Affect Regulation and the Repair of the Self, and The Science of the Art of Psychotherapy, as well as numerous articles and chapters. His Regulation Theory, is grounded in developmental neuroscience and developmental psychoanalysis. His contributions appear in multiple disciplines, including developmental neuroscience, psychiatry, psychoanalysis, developmental psychology, attachment theory, trauma studies, behavioural biology, clinical psychology and social work. His ground breaking integration of neuroscience with attachment theory has lead to his description as the American Bowlby with emotional development as the world’s leading authority on how our right hemisphere regulates emotion and processes our sense of self. The American Psychoanalytic Association has described Dr. Schore as a monumental figure in psychoanalytic and neuropsychoanalytic studies.

Dr Allan Schore is on the clinical faculty of the Department of Psychiatry and Biobehavioural Sciences, UCLA David Geffen School of Medicine, and at the UCLA Centre for Culture, Brain, and Development (Los Angeles USA). He is author of four seminal volumes, Affect Regulation and the Origin of the Self, Affect Dysregulation and Disorders of the Self, Affect Regulation and the Repair of the Self, and The Science of the Art of Psychotherapy, as well as numerous articles and chapters. His Regulation Theory, is grounded in developmental neuroscience and developmental psychoanalysis. His contributions appear in multiple disciplines, including developmental neuroscience, psychiatry, psychoanalysis, developmental psychology, attachment theory, trauma studies, behavioural biology, clinical psychology and social work. His ground breaking integration of neuroscience with attachment theory has lead to his description as the American Bowlby with emotional development as the world’s leading authority on how our right hemisphere regulates emotion and processes our sense of self. The American Psychoanalytic Association has described Dr. Schore as a monumental figure in psychoanalytic and neuropsychoanalytic studies.

Dr Allan Schore is on the clinical faculty of the Department of Psychiatry and Biobehavioural Sciences, UCLA David Geffen School of Medicine, and at the UCLA Centre for Culture, Brain, and Development (Los Angeles USA). He is author of four seminal volumes, Affect Regulation and the Origin of the Self, Affect Dysregulation and Disorders of the Self, Affect Regulation and the Repair of the Self, and The Science of the Art of Psychotherapy, as well as numerous articles and chapters. His Regulation Theory, is grounded in developmental neuroscience and developmental psychoanalysis. His contributions appear in multiple disciplines, including developmental neuroscience, psychiatry, psychoanalysis, developmental psychology, attachment theory, trauma studies, behavioural biology, clinical psychology and social work. His ground breaking integration of neuroscience with attachment theory has lead to his description as the American Bowlby with emotional development as the world’s leading authority on how our right hemisphere regulates emotion and processes our sense of self. The American Psychoanalytic Association has described Dr. Schore as a monumental figure in psychoanalytic and neuropsychoanalytic studies.

Dr Allan Schore is on the clinical faculty of the Department of Psychiatry and Biobehavioural Sciences, UCLA David Geffen School of Medicine, and at the UCLA Centre for Culture, Brain, and Development (Los Angeles USA). He is author of four seminal volumes, Affect Regulation and the Origin of the Self, Affect Dysregulation and Disorders of the Self, Affect Regulation and the Repair of the Self, and The Science of the Art of Psychotherapy, as well as numerous articles and chapters. His Regulation Theory, is grounded in developmental neuroscience and developmental psychoanalysis. His contributions appear in multiple disciplines, including developmental neuroscience, psychiatry, psychoanalysis, developmental psychology, attachment theory, trauma studies, behavioural biology, clinical psychology and social work. His ground breaking integration of neuroscience with attachment theory has lead to his description as the American Bowlby with emotional development as the world’s leading authority on how our right hemisphere regulates emotion and processes our sense of self. The American Psychoanalytic Association has described Dr. Schore as a monumental figure in psychoanalytic and neuropsychoanalytic studies.

Dr Allan Schore is on the clinical faculty of the Department of Psychiatry and Biobehavioural Sciences, UCLA David Geffen School of Medicine, and at the UCLA Centre for Culture, Brain, and Development (Los Angeles USA). He is author of four seminal volumes, Affect Regulation and the Origin of the Self, Affect Dysregulation and Disorders of the Self, Affect Regulation and the Repair of the Self, and The Science of the Art of Psychotherapy, as well as numerous articles and chapters. His Regulation Theory, is grounded in developmental neuroscience and developmental psychoanalysis. His contributions appear in multiple disciplines, including developmental neuroscience, psychiatry, psychoanalysis, developmental psychology, attachment theory, trauma studies, behavioural biology, clinical psychology and social work. His ground breaking integration of neuroscience with attachment theory has lead to his description as the American Bowlby with emotional development as the world’s leading authority on how our right hemisphere regulates emotion and processes our sense of self. The American Psychoanalytic Association has described Dr. Schore as a monumental figure in psychoanalytic and neuropsychoanalytic studies.

Dr Allan Schore is on the clinical faculty of the Department of Psychiatry and Biobehavioural Sciences, UCLA David Geffen School of Medicine, and at the UCLA Centre for Culture, Brain, and Development (Los Angeles USA). He is author of four seminal volumes, Affect Regulation and the Origin of the Self, Affect Dysregulation and Disorders of the Self, Affect Regulation and the Repair of the Self, and The Science of the Art of Psychotherapy, as well as numerous articles and chapters. His Regulation Theory, is grounded in developmental neuroscience and developmental psychoanalysis. His contributions appear in multiple disciplines, including developmental neuroscience, psychiatry, psychoanalysis, developmental psychology, attachment theory, trauma studies, behavioural biology, clinical psychology and social work. His ground breaking integration of neuroscience with attachment theory has lead to his description as the American Bowlby with emotional development as the world’s leading authority on how our right hemisphere regulates emotion and processes our sense of self. The American Psychoanalytic Association has described Dr. Schore as a monumental figure in psychoanalytic and neuropsychoanalytic studies.

Cindy Blackstock is the Executive Director of the First Nations Child and Family Caring Society of Canada and an associate professor at the University of Alberta. A member of the Gitksan Nation, Blackstock has worked in the field of child and family services for over 20 years. An author of over 50 publications, her key interests include exploring, and addressing, the causes of disadvantage for Aboriginal children and families and promoting equitable and culturally based interventions. She holds fellowships with the Ashoka Foundation and the J.W. McConnell Family Foundation and has received numerous awards and distinctions, including a National Aboriginal Achievement Award.

Cindy Blackstock is the Executive Director of the First Nations Child and Family Caring Society of Canada and an associate professor at the University of Alberta. A member of the Gitksan Nation, Blackstock has worked in the field of child and family services for over 20 years. An author of over 50 publications, her key interests include exploring, and addressing, the causes of disadvantage for Aboriginal children and families and promoting equitable and culturally based interventions. She holds fellowships with the Ashoka Foundation and the J.W. McConnell Family Foundation and has received numerous awards and distinctions, including a National Aboriginal Achievement Award.

Dr Dan Hughes has been a psychologist specializing in the treatment of children and youth with severe emotional and behavioural problems. His work has focused on children and youth who experienced developmental trauma and attachment disorganization along with their foster and adoptive families. Dan has borrowed heavily from attachment theory and neurobiology research to develop a model of treatment that he calls Dyadic Developmental Psychotherapy. DDP is a nondirective yet directive, client-cantered approach, influenced by psychodynamic, gestalt, Rogerian, and Ericksonian traditions, brought together within the dance of affect attunement that is seen most powerfully in the relationship between a parent and her/his infant and toddler. The DDP model is described well in Building the Bonds of Attachment, 2nd Edition (2006). He expanded the treatment model so that it was applicable to all families, which led to the publication of Attachment-Focused Family Therapy Workbook in 2011 and Attachment-Focused Parenting in 2009. In 2012 he wrote Brain-Based Parenting with Jon Baylin and Creating Loving Attachments with Kim Golding.

Dr Dan Siegel is currently clinical professor of psychiatry at the UCLA School of Medicine where he is on the faculty of the Centre for Culture, Brain, and Development and the Co-Director of the Mindful Awareness Research Centre (Los Angeles, USA). An award-winning educator, he is a Distinguished Fellow of the American Psychiatric Association and recipient of several honorary fellowships. Dr. Siegel is also the Executive Director of the Mindsight Institute, an educational organization, which offers online learning and in-person lectures that focus on how the development of mindsight in individuals, families and communities can be enhanced by examining the interface of human relationships and basic biological processes. Dr. Siegel has published extensively for the professional audience. He is the co-editor of the Handbook of Psychiatry and the author of numerous articles, chapters, and the internationally acclaimed text, The Developing Mind: How Relationships and the Brain Interact to Shape Who We Are (Guilford, 1999). This book introduces the field of interpersonal neurobiology, and has been utilized by a number of clinical and research organizations worldwide, including the U.S. Department of Justice, The Vatican’s Pontifical Council for the Family, Microsoft and Google. The Developing Mind, Second Edition was published on March 14, 2012. Dr. Siegel serves as the Founding Editor for the Norton Professional Series on Interpersonal Neurobiology which now includes more than 20 textbooks. His professional book, The Mindful Brain: Reflection and Attunement in the Cultivation of Well-Being (Norton, 2007), explores the nature of mindful awareness as a process that harnesses the social circuitry of the brain as it promotes mental, physical, and relational health. His latest professional text, The Mindful Therapist: A Clinician's Guide to Mindsight and Neural Integration (Norton, 2010), explores the application of focusing techniques for the clinician’s own development, as well as their clients' development of mindsight and neural integration. His latest book is Pocket Guide to Interpersonal Neurobiology:An Integrative Handbook of the Mind (Norton, 2012).

Dr Dan Siegel is currently clinical professor of psychiatry at the UCLA School of Medicine where he is on the faculty of the Centre for Culture, Brain, and Development and the Co-Director of the Mindful Awareness Research Centre (Los Angeles, USA). An award-winning educator, he is a Distinguished Fellow of the American Psychiatric Association and recipient of several honorary fellowships. Dr. Siegel is also the Executive Director of the Mindsight Institute, an educational organization, which offers online learning and in-person lectures that focus on how the development of mindsight in individuals, families and communities can be enhanced by examining the interface of human relationships and basic biological processes. Dr. Siegel has published extensively for the professional audience. He is the co-editor of the Handbook of Psychiatry and the author of numerous articles, chapters, and the internationally acclaimed text, The Developing Mind: How Relationships and the Brain Interact to Shape Who We Are (Guilford, 1999). This book introduces the field of interpersonal neurobiology, and has been utilized by a number of clinical and research organizations worldwide, including the U.S. Department of Justice, The Vatican’s Pontifical Council for the Family, Microsoft and Google. The Developing Mind, Second Edition was published on March 14, 2012. Dr. Siegel serves as the Founding Editor for the Norton Professional Series on Interpersonal Neurobiology which now includes more than 20 textbooks. His professional book, The Mindful Brain: Reflection and Attunement in the Cultivation of Well-Being (Norton, 2007), explores the nature of mindful awareness as a process that harnesses the social circuitry of the brain as it promotes mental, physical, and relational health. His latest professional text, The Mindful Therapist: A Clinician's Guide to Mindsight and Neural Integration (Norton, 2010), explores the application of focusing techniques for the clinician’s own development, as well as their clients' development of mindsight and neural integration. His latest book is Pocket Guide to Interpersonal Neurobiology:An Integrative Handbook of the Mind (Norton, 2012).

Dr Ed Tronick (University of Massachusetts, Boston, USA) is a developmental and clinical psychologist and is recognized internationally as a researcher on infants and children and parenting. He has co-authored and authored more than 200 scientific papers and chapters. Dr. Tronick’s research focuses on social-emotional development and self-regulatory processes in normal and compromised infants and young children and the effects of stress on infants and parents. He developed the Still-Face Paradigm and the Model of Mutual Regulation. More recently he has worked on co-creative processes of the expansion meaning in the infant-adult in the therapeutic dyadic. He has carried out research in Zaire, Peru, and India on child rearing and development. He co-developed the Neonatal Behavioral Assessment and the Touchpoints Program with Berry Brazelton and is a master trainer. Recently, he and his colleague, Barry Lester published the NICU Network Neurobehavioral Assessment, a standardized instrument for assessing the neurobehavioral status of the newborn that has proved effective in making long term predictions. Dr. Tronick’s current research with his research team focuses on the area of Relational Psychophysiology.

Ed Tronick (University of Massachusetts, Boston, USA) is a developmental and clinical psychologist and is recognized internationally as a researcher on infants and children and parenting. He has co-authored and authored more than 200 scientific papers and chapters. Dr. Tronick’s research focuses on social-emotional development and self-regulatory processes in normal and compromised infants and young children and the effects of stress on infants and parents. He developed the Still-Face Paradigm and the Model of Mutual Regulation. More recently he has worked on co-creative processes of the expansion meaning in the infant-adult in the therapeutic dyadic. He has carried out research in Zaire, Peru, and India on child rearing and development. He co-developed the Neonatal Behavioral Assessment and the Touchpoints Program with Berry Brazelton and is a master trainer.  Recently, he and his colleague, Barry Lester published the NICU Network Neurobehavioral Assessment, a standardized instrument for assessing the neurobehavioral status of the newborn that has proved effective in making long term predictions. Dr. Tronick’s current research with his research team focuses on the area of Relational Psychophysiology.

Marilyn Davillier is a Licensed Clinical Social Worker who has worked with infants, toddlers, children, and their families, in a teaching, research or clinical capacity for over 30 years. What began as a career in the Montessori method of pre-school education led to extensive research experience in behavioral pediatrics.  In this capacity, she worked extensively with the psychological tools and measures relevant to infant and child development and co-authored several papers on the long-range developmental outcomes of preterm and drug-exposed infants. Additional post-licensure trainings include:  The Brazelton Touchpoints Model of Child Development, The Napa Infant-Parent Mental Health Post-Graduate Fellowship, Perry’s Neurosequential Model of Therapeutics, Ogden’s Sensorimotor Psychotherapy, Downing’s Video Intervention Therapy (VIT), Sandplay Therapy, and Mindfulness Meditation Training.  Ms. Davillier is currently the Associate Director of the University of Massachusetts, Boston, Infant-Parent Mental Health Post-Graduate Certificate Program, a two-year fellowship that trains a multidisciplinary group of professionals to treat the disorders of infancy, toddlerhood and early childhood.  She also maintains a private practice in Boston that specializes in the parent-child dyadic model of treatment for families with young children under the age of six years of age who are dealing with disorders of behavior, regulation, communication, mood, adoption and trauma.  Related therapeutic services also include:  Parent Consultation, Family Therapy, Play/Art/Sandplay therapy for elementary and middle-school aged children, Adolescent Psychotherapy, and Couples Therapy.  Ms. Davillier lectures both nationally and internationally on meaning-making in the clinical treatment of young children, the importance of limit setting, family narratives, and the use of literature to promote resilience in the private life of the child.  She is currently writing a fairy tale.

Speakers Include: 

Allan Schore, Cindy Blackstock, Dan Hughes, Pat Ogden, Stephen Porges, Kim Golding, Marilyn Davillier, Judith Schore, Joe Tucci

Speakers Include: 

Cindy Blackstock, Dan Hughes, Pat Ogden, Kim Golding, Ed Tronick, Judith Schore, Allan Schore, Sue Carter, Marilyn Davillier

Speakers Include: 

Cindy Blackstock, Dan Hughes, Ed Tronick, Dan Siegel, Judy Atkinson, Stephen Porges, Joe Tucci

Kim Golding is a Clinical Psychologist working in Worcestershire, England. Her career has focused on working with children and families within the NHS since her training was completed in 1985. Kim has been involved in the establishment and evaluation of the Integrated Service for Looked After Children. ISL provides support for foster, adoptive and residential parents, schools and the range of professionals around the children growing up in care or in adoptive families. She is the author of Nurturing Attachments: Supporting Children who are Fostered and Adopted, co-author with Dan Hughes of Creating Loving Attachments: Parenting with Pace and lead author of observational checklists designed for use in educational settings, Observing Children with Attachment Difficulties in Preschool Settings. She has written a group work programme to use with foster carers and adopters: The Nurturing Attachments Training Resource. All of these have been published by Jessica Kingsley Publishers. She is currently working on a book of short therapeutic stories for children, their parents and the practitioners who support them.

Adjunct Professor Muriel Bamblett AM

Muriel Bamblett is a Yorta Yorta and Dja Dja Wurrung woman who has been employed as the Chief Executive Officer of the Victorian Aboriginal Child Care Agency since 1999. Muriel was Chairperson of the Secretariat of National Aboriginal and Islander Child Care for 10 years (the peak agency representing Indigenous Child and Family Services nationally). Muriel is active on many boards and committees concerning children, families and the Indigenous community, including the Victorian Children’s Council; the Foundation to Prevent Violence Against Women and Children; the Australian Institute of Family Studies Advisory Council; the Aboriginal Justice Forum and the Aboriginal Community Elders Service. From 2009-2010 Muriel was a Board Member on the NT Board of Inquiry into the Child Protection System.

Muriel has been the recipient of a number of awards, including the Centenary of Federation Medal; the 2003 Robin Clark Memorial Award for Inspirational Leadership in the Field of Child and Family Welfare; the Women’s Electoral Lobby Inaugural Vida Goldstein Award; and an AM in the 2004 Australia Day Honours for her services to the community, particularly through leadership in the provision of services for Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander children and families. In 2009 Muriel was appointed an Adjunct Professor at LaTrobe University’s School of Social Work and Social Policy.

Muriel was inducted into the Victorian Honour Roll of Women in 2011 and was a finalist for a Human Rights Medal with the Australian Human Rights Commission.

Dr Stephen Porges is Professor of Psychiatry at the University of North Carolina (USA). He is Professor Emeritus of Psychiatry at the University of Illinois at Chicago where he directed the Brain-Body Centre. Dr. Porges is also Professor Emeritus at the University of Maryland where served as Chair of the Department of Human Development and Director of the Institute for Child Study. He is a former president of the Society for Psychophysiological Research and also of the Federation of Behavioural, Psychological, and Cognitive Sciences. He is a former recipient of a National Institute of Mental Health Research Scientist Development Award. He has published more than 200 peer‐reviewed scientific papers across several disciplines including anaesthesiology, critical care medicine, ergonomics, exercise physiology, gerontology, neurology, obstetrics, paediatrics, psychiatry, psychology, space medicine, and substance abuse. In 1994 he proposed the Polyvagal Theory, a theory that links the evolution of the vertebrate autonomic nervous system to the emergence of social behaviour. The theory provides insights into the mechanisms mediating symptoms observed in several behavioural, psychiatric, and physical disorders. The theory has stimulated research and treatments that emphasize the importance of physiological state and behavioural regulation in the expression of several psychiatric disorders and provides a theoretical perspective to study and to treat stress and trauma. He is the author of The Polyvagal Theory: Neurophysiological foundations of Emotions, Attachment, Communication, and Self-regulation (Norton, 2011) and is currently writing Clinical Applications of the Polyvagal Theory: The Transformative Power of Feeling Safe (Norton, 2014).

Dr Sue Carter is Professor of Psychiatry at the University of North Carolina (USA). She is Professor Emerita of Psychiatry at the University of Illinois at Chicago and has formerly held the position of Distinguished University Professor of Biology at the University of Maryland and prior to that was Professor in the Departments of Psychology and Ecology, Ethology and Evolution at the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign. Dr. Carter is past president of the International Behavioural Neuroscience Society and holds fellow status in that Society and in the American Association for the Advancement of Science. She has authored over 275 publications, including editorship of 5 books. The most recent of these is Attachment and Bonding; A New Synthesis (MIT Press). Research from Dr. Carter’s laboratory documented the role of oxytocin and vasopressin in social bond formation. Her most recent work focuses on the developmental consequences of oxytocin, including perinatal exposure to synthetic oxytocin, and the protective role of this peptide in the regulation of behavioural and autonomic reactivity to stressful experiences.