WAIMH 2018 - 16th WAIMH World Congress

WAIMH connects infant mental health specialists and professionals working within infant well-being. You can get access to internationally based clinical and scientific knowledge via membership journals. Join in our congresses and global communication network.
Abstracts are invited under the following themes:
Advocacy and Infant Mental Health policy
Antenatal and perinatal practices
Attachment: research, security of attachment and disorders of attachment
Caregiving contexts
Cross cultural studies – Global strategies for infants, families and communities
Early development, child health and mental health
Evaluation and outcomes: scientific studies and early interventions
Infant Mental Health services, training, teaching, supervision and consultation
Observation and assessment: diagnosis, treatment and clinical issues
Parent-infant interaction and early relationship development
Parenting and family process
Prematurity and high-risk infants
Problems, symptoms and disorders of the infant
Problems with parenting and high risk families (e.g. adolescent parenting, parental substance abuse, family violence and child abuse)
Promotion and prevention in community context
In scientific abstracts we ask you to use the following structure: Introduction, Aims of the study, Material and Methods, Results, Conclusions.
Guidelines for submissions for clinical presentations: Title of presentation, Aim of the presentation – what are you wanting to illustrate? The therapeutic process of a case? The presentation of a problem and its resolution (or non-resolution) through the therapeutic process? The presentation of a new clinical service or intervention?
Synopsis of case or your intervention: a 200 – 250 word summary of the case or of the clinical programme or intervention.