LIVE Legacy interview with Dr. Arietta Slade, internationally recognized expert on reflective parenting and the clinical implications of attachment theory and research With Special Guests: Dr. Alicia Lieberman, world renowned specialist on child trauma and Dr. Tanika Eaves, senior infant mental health specialist

Key discussion areas:

• Why is a parent’s reflective capacity (their understanding of their own and child’s internal experience) so important?
• How can those of us who work with families enhance the development of reflective parenting?
• How can we build the relational foundations of reflection?
• What can we learn from Arietta and her colleagues’ Minding The Baby™ Program about home visiting with high risk mothers
• What does applying attachment look like in clinical practice?
• How do psychodynamic, attachment and trauma theories come together in our work?
• How can Arietta’s Parent Development Interview be used to assess parental mentalizing in a clinical context?
• Tanika has written about Minding the Baby ™ with Arietta. She discusses some of the ways that babies and parents who struggle with adversity can best be supported, and that racial inequities in maternal-infant health and mental health can be addressed?

Arietta Slade is Professor of Clinical Child Psychology at the Yale Child Study Center, and Professor Emerita of Clinical Psychology at the City University of New York. An internationally recognised clinician, researcher, and teacher, she has published widely on reflective parenting, the clinical implications of attachment theory, the development of parental mentalization, and relationship-based infant mental health practice.

For the past 20 years Arietta has been co-directing Minding the Baby™ (MTB), an interdisciplinary reflective parenting home visiting program for high-risk mothers, babies, and their families, at the Yale Child Study Center and School of Nursing. She and her MTB colleagues have written a book describing their experiences delivering the program to parents and children in a number of communities, ‘Enhancing Attachment and Reflective Parenting in Clinical Practice: A Minding the Baby Approach’ (Forthcoming, Guilford, 2023).