MERTIL for Families

Overview

Family therapy and group work skills for building and healing early relational trust in young families.

By attending this workshop, you will be able to:

• Become familiar with the MERTIL for Parents framework for early relational trust, and its growing evidence base
• Bring developmental constructs such as attachment and trauma to life, in plain English
• Learn how to create a healing conversation with families around the MERTIL for My Family resource, using single session principles
• Learn how to run MERTIL for Parents in single or multiple session group formats
• Consider implementation enablers in their own workplace

Who should attend

Practitioners who work in infant mental health and building relational trust in dyads 0-5 years.
Including:

• Nurses
• Midwives
• Psychologists/Psychiatrists
• Social Workers
• Family Support Workers
• Child Protection Workers
• Infant Mental Health Workers
• General Practitioners
• Workers who provide services involving young children