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General information
Event Type: International Conference
Mode: In person and online (synchronous and asynchronous)
Place: University of Pavia, Aula del 400
When: June 23rd, 2023
Simultaneous translation
Professionals: 110€
For Developing Countries Professionals: 70€
Students or Ph.D. students: 40€
For Developing Countries Students or Ph.D. students: 30€

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TERNATIONAL CONFERENCE | PAVIA | 23rd JUNE, 2023

ATTACHMENT-BASED PARENTING INTERVENTIONS

The International Conference on Attachment-Based Parenting Interventions at the University of Pavia is a unique opportunity to hear leading experts discuss innovative and evidence-based approaches in the field. Suitable for psychologists, psychiatrists, neuropsychiatrists, educators, mental health professionals, researchers, and students, this one-day conference can be attended in-person (limited seats) or on-line. Simultaneous translation will be available in English and Italy. On-line registrations will be able to an easy to access video recording of the full conference in both Italian and English.

Focus of the Conference

How does an attachment approach inform parenting interventions to best “reach” children and adolescents and promote their mental health and wellbeing? How effective are these approaches and how can they be scaled-up to provide sustainable supports for families? What are the key clinical challenges that practitioners experience?

To address these questions, this focused one-day conference brings together leading national and international scholars in the field of attachment-based parenting interventions. Our morning sessions focus on interventions designed to support parents of pre-school aged children, while our afternoon sessions will focus on interventions designed to support parents of adolescents.

The conference will also explore the theme of diversity, inviting conversations on cultural and contextual considerations for development and implementation of attachment-based interventions for underserved populations.

Each talk will be followed by a brief facilitated discussion with the presenter, allowing opportunities for the audience to engage and raise questions. Join us for this invaluable opportunity for knowledge-sharing, collaboration, and innovation in the field of attachment-based parenting interventions!

PROGRAM

9:00 a.m. Opening conference

9:30 a.m. Marinus van IJzendoorn, Professor Emeritus Leiden University, NL, University College London (UCL), UK and Erasmus Univerisity, Rotterdam, NL
From institutional child rearing to family care of children without available parents: What evidence creates societal impact?

10:15 a.m. Discussion with Rosalinda Cassibba, University of Bari, IT

10:30 a.m. Marian Bakermans-Kranenburg, Instituto Superior de Psicologia Aplicada (ISPA), Lisboa, PT
Video-feedback Intervention to promote Positive Parenting and Sensitive Discipline (VIPP-SD): Development, procedures, and effectivity of a supportive parenting program for diverse populations

11:15 a.m. Discussion with Livio Provenzi, University of Pavia and IRCCS Mondino, IT

11:30 a.m. Coffee break

12:00 p.m. Alessio Porreca and Alessandra Simonelli, University of Padua, IT
Working with mothers with Substance Use Disorders and their children by implementing the VIPP-SD intervention

12:45 p.m. Discussion with Lavinia Barone, University of Pavia, IT

1:00 p.m. Lunch break

2:30 p.m. Pasco Fearon, University of Cambridge, UK
Parenting and attachment in adolescence from a behavioural-genetic perspective

3:15 p.m. Discussion with Livio Provenzi, University of Pavia and IRCCS Mondino, IT

3:30 p.m. Break

3:45 p.m. Lavinia Barone, University of Pavia, IT and Marlene Moretti, Simon Fraser University (SFU), Vancouver, CA
CONNECT parent group program: what works for whom in diverse families in adolescence

4:30 p.m. Discussion with Guy Bosmans, Katholieke Universiteit (KU) Leuven, BE

4:45 p.m. Dave Pasalich, Australian National University (ANU), AU
Implementing the CONNECT intervention for caregivers of children in out- of-home care in Australia

5:30 p.m. Final discussion with Sheri Madigan, University of Calgary, CA

6:00 p.m. End of the conference

CHAIRPERSONS

Lavinia Barone

University of Pavia, IT

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Ph.D., psychologist and psychotherapist. Professor in Developmental and Educational Psychology at the University of Pavia. She is director of the Laboratory of Attachment and Parenting (LAG) at the University of Pavia. Her main clinical and research interests concern the area of social-emotional development, with a focus on attachment, the assessment of risk factors and parenting interventions. She is an expert in the field of attachment assessment, and she is a certified trainer for the VIPP-SD intervention and the CONNECT parent group intervention.

Marlene Moretti

Simon Fraser University (SFU), Vancouver, CA

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Ph.D., psychologist and researcher. Professor at Simon Fraser University in Vancouver and Honorary Professor at Örebro University in Sweden. For more than 25 years she has worked with provincial and federal government stakeholders and researchers and families across Canada and Sweden to promote adolescent mental health. She lectures nationally and internationally on the importance of attachment security as a protective factor in promoting social and emotional well-being in adolescence. She is the creator of the CONNECT parent group intervention that has achieved the highest level of effectiveness as reported by the California Evidence-Based Clearinghouse for child welfare.

SPEAKERS

Marinus van IJzendoorn

Leiden University, NL, University College London, UK, Erasmus University, Rotterdam, NL

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Ph.D, psychologist and researcher. Emeritus Professor in Human Development, Department of Psychology, Education, and Child Studies, at the Erasmus University Rotterdam and Emeritus Professor in Child and Family Studies, Faculty of Social and Behavioural Sciences, at the Leiden University. Visiting professor at the Faculty of Brain Sciences, University College London. His main research interests include adoption, attachment, child maltreatment, differential susceptibility to environmental influences, and the effects of institutionalization on social-emotional development. He has authored major studies and meta-analyses on video-feedback intervention to support positive parenting – VIPP.

Marian Bakermans-Kranenburg

Instituto Superior de Psicologia Aplicada (ISPA), Lisbona, PT

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Ph.D., psychologist and researcher. Professor at the ISPA – University Institute of Psychological, Social and Life Sciences, Lisbon. Her main research interests include attachment and emotional regulation in parents and children, focusing on neurobiological processes involved in parenting and development. She addresses a recent and promising interest in the study of the parental role of the father. She has authored major studies and meta-analyses on video-feedback intervention to support positive parenting – VIPP.

Alessio Porreca

University of Padua, IT

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Ph.D., psychologist, and psychotherapist. Research fellow in Dynamic Psychology at the University of Padua. His research work integrates attachment theory, transactional theories and the more recent theory of emotional availability. He conducts research in the area of parenting and the emotional development of children in normative and at-risk contexts. He works on parenting and adult-child relationship support through attachment-based models of intervention and assessment.

Alessandra Simonelli

University of Padua, IT

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Ph.D., psychologist, and psychotherapist. Professor in Dynamic Psychology at the University of Padua. For years she has been studying the quality of interactions and early relationships between adults and children in typical, atypical and/or psychopathological conditions and their possible effects on development and well-being in the short and long term. In recent years, she has opened her interest to research into biological aspects of parenting.

Dave Pasalich

Australian National University (ANU), AU

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Ph.D., psychologist and researcher. Senior Lecturer at the Australian National University (ANU) in Canberra. His main clinical and research interests are in attachment, developmental psychopathology, and family relationships. He works on the development, evaluation, and implementation of parenting interventions that aim to reduce behavioral problems in children and adolescents and improve parent-child relationship quality in different populations.

Pasco Fearon

University of Cambridge, UK

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Ph.D., clinical psychologist and researcher. Professor in Family Research at the University of Cambridge and director of the Centre of Family Research. Current president of the Society for Emotion and Attachment Studies (SEAS). His main research interests are in the parent-child relationship, including attachment and caregiving, and the interactions between social and genetic processes in early development and adolescence. In addition to important research work, he is currently involved with government departments and the NHS in implementing interventions to support policies on child and adolescent development and mental health.

Lavinia Barone

University of Pavia, IT

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Ph.D., psychologist and psychotherapist. Professor in Developmental and Educational Psychology at the University of Pavia. She is director of the Laboratory of Attachment and Parenting (LAG) at the University of Pavia. Her main clinical and research interests concern the area of social-emotional development, with a focus on attachment, the assessment of risk factors and parenting interventions. She is an expert in the field of attachment assessment, and she is a certified trainer for the VIPP-SD intervention and the CONNECT parent group intervention.

Marlene Moretti

Simon Fraser University (SFU), Vancouver, CA

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Ph.D., psychologist and researcher. Professor at Simon Fraser University in Vancouver and Honorary Professor at Örebro University in Sweden. For more than 25 years she has worked with provincial and federal government stakeholders and researchers and families across Canada and Sweden to promote adolescent mental health. She lectures nationally and internationally on the importance of attachment security as a protective factor in promoting social and emotional well-being in adolescence. She is the creator of the CONNECT parent group intervention that has achieved the highest level of effectiveness as reported by the California Evidence-Based Clearinghouse for child welfare.

DISCUSSANTS

Rosalinda Cassibba

University of Bari, IT

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Ph.D. and psychologist. Professor in Developmental and Educational Psychology at the University of Bari. Her main research interests concern attachment, social-emotional development, the effects of educational contexts on development, multiple attachment bonds and parenting interventions.

Livio Provenzi

University of Pavia and IRCCS Mondino, IT

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Ph.D., psychologist, psychotherapist, and researcher. Coordinator of the Developmental Psychobiology Laboratory (DBP) at the IRCCS Mondino Foundation and the University of Pavia. In his clinical and research activities he integrates Infant Research methodologies, neuroendocrinology, and behavioral epigenetics to understand how the early care environment promotes cognitive, social and emotional development in healthy and at-risk children.

Guy Bosmans

Katholieke Universiteit (KU) Leuven, BE

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Ph.D., psychologist and researcher. Professor and member of the Parenting and Special Education Research Group at Katholieke Universiteit in Leuven, Belgium. His main research interests include attachment in middle childhood, parenting interventions, and mechanisms influencing the development of children’s feelings of trust in their parents. He is involved in research on parenting interventions and Attachment-Based Family Therapy (ABFT), an evidence-based intervention for the treatment of depressed and suicidal adolescents.

Sheri Madigan

University of Calgary, CA

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Ph.D., clinical psychologist and researcher. Professor and director of the Determinants of Child Development laboratory at the Department of Psychology of the University of Calgary. Her research focuses on understanding the individual, family, and social factors that, individually and in interaction, influence children’s developmental trajectories. She pays special attention to the intergenerational transmission of risk factors and the investigation of protective factors for child and adolescent mental health. She contributes to attachment evaluation instrument development an to translational psychology, minding the gap between research and applied interventions. Her research program is supported by federal and international grants.

HOW TO PARTICIPATE: IN PERSON AND ONLINE

The international conference will be held at the University of Pavia – Aula del 400 in Piazza Leonardo da Vinci, 5, 27100 – Pavia (accessible through the main entrance of the University in Corso Strada Nuova, 65).

The conference can also be enjoyed remotely on a dedicated zoom platform, in direct or deferred mode. The recording of the event will be available to subscribers until December 31st, 2023.

Simultaneous translation English-Italian | Italian-English available throughout the event via the participant’s smartphone and headphones.

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