Description
A 40 minute presentation by Heidelise Als, PhD followed by a 20 minute Question & Answer session moderated by Deborah Buehler, PhD.
Target Audience
This webinar is designed for any and all healthcare professionals as well as parents
involved in newborn intensive care
Objectives
This webinar aims to assure the following three outcomes:
- Participants will be in a position to list at least three reasons why it is necessary for parents to be involved and integrated fully into their infants’ lives and care in the hospital setting.
- Participants will be confident in listing four major channels of communication readily observable in all hospitalized infants’ behavior.
- Participants will gain security in interpreting an individual infant’s behavior and infer from the infant’s behavior the infant’s current goal(s), and thus recommend care strategies and/or adapt their own care to the infant’s apparent current goals.
Presenters
Heidelise Als, Ph.D., Professor of Psychology in the Department of Psychiatry, Harvard Medical School, Senior Associate in Psychiatry, and Director of Neurobehavioral Infant and Child Studies, Boston Children’s Hospital Boston, Boston Massachusetts, and Research Associate in Newborn Medicine at the Brigham and Women’s Hospital.
Dr. Als is a clinician and researcher, who is concerned with the neurodevelopment of fullterm, high risk and preterm newborns, as well as the effect of environment and care and the parents’ role on brain development. Her goal is to improve the future for all newborns and especially those born early and/or with special challenges requiring intensive medical care.
Dr. Als is the originator of the Newborn Individualized Developmental Care and Assessment Program (NIDCAP) and the director of the first NICU based program dedicated to training and implementing this approach, established in 1982, the National NIDCAP Training Center, based at Boston Children’s Hospital and the Brigham and Women’s Hospital. She is the founder of the NIDCAP Federation International (NFI), a charitable organization with the mission to assure NIDCAP care for all newborns and families world-wide. Her research has documented significant improvement in the health and neurodevelopment of preterm infants, who receive NIDCAP care compared to those, cared for in traditional ways. Her work has changed the training and education of staff as well as the design of and care delivered in NICUs in the US and globally.
Program
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