Born to Connect: Infant Mental Health

SPEAKERS

Dr Rosalind Powrie, Child & Adolescent PsychiatristIntroducing Infant Mental Health Awareness weekHead, Perinatal and Infant Mental Health Service, Women’s & Children’s Hospital, Women’s and Children’s Health NetworkDr Rosalind Powrie is a Child and Adolescent Psychiatrist and is Head of the Perinatal and Infant Mental Health Team at the Women’s and Children’s Hospital, Women’s and Children’s Health Network in Adelaide. Dr Powrie has extensive experience in teaching and training in Perinatal and Infant Mental Health. Dr Powrie is current President of the South Australian Branch of the Australian Association for Infant Mental Health. She is also a mindfulness teacher.

Dr Heather Mattner, Perinatal Health Psychologist & MidwifeEarly relationship building - So evident it goes without saying or not evident so it goes without saying?Private Psychology Practice / School of Nursing and School of Psychology, University of Adelaide

Dr Heather Mattner is a Perinatal Health Psychologist and Midwife with a wide-ranging background in maternal/infant health, midwifery practice, research, education, models of practice development and review, perinatal mental health/wellbeing, including Aboriginal perinatal health/wellbeing, and primary health care.

Ms Meg Bater, Neonatal Intensive Care Unit Nurse, PhD CandidatePEDaL: Training Parents of Preterm Infants to Support Early DevelopmentWomen’s and Children’s Hospital, Women’s and Children’s Health Network / University of Adelaide / SAHMRI Healthy Mothers Babies & Children

Ms Meg Bater is a Neonatal Intensive Care Unit (ICU) nurse and educator who has worked in London, Melbourne and Adelaide. Her current role is a consultant registered nurse attached to the Women’s and Children’s Hospital Neonatal Nursery, where she co-ordinates the Growth & Development Neonatal Follow-up Program. Her interest in preterm infant neuro-development and family centred care led to her research project, PEDaL: parent education for developmental literacy.

Ms Sara Jones, Neonatal Critical Care Nurse, A/Nurse Unit ManagerIntroduction to Family Integrated care in the Flinders Medical Centre Neonatal UnitNeonatal Unit, Flinders Medical CentreMs Sara Jones is a Registered Nurse, Neonatal Critical Care Nurse and the Associate Nurse Unit Manager within the Neonatal Unit at Flinders Medical Centre. Sara is an advocate for the concept of Family Integrated Care in the Flinders Medical Centre Neonatal Unit. Sara will also discuss the Stella Bella Bead Program currently running in the Flinders Medical Centre Neonatal Unit. This involves consumer engagement and has been successful in empowering and including our neonatal parents in the care of their baby.