Lessons from Infant Mental Health Service Implementation in South Africa. Join us for a thought-provoking lecture on the implementation of infant mental health projects at Ububele, an NGO in South Africa dedicated to promoting optimal child outcomes and relational health. This talk will share South African lessons learned from the process of interrogating and adapting child development theories and interventions for the local context. Lessons from implementation research into the wellbeing of South African parenting interventionists will also be shared.
Dr Nicki Dawson is a clinician-research and Counselling Psychologist from Johannesburg, South Africa. She is the Research Development and Training Lead at the Ububele Educational and Psychotherapy Trust, a not-for-profit mental health service and training centre in Johannesburg, South Africa, where her work focuses on attachment, infant mental health, parenting and early childhood development.
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The Research Program on Children and Adversity (RPCA) focuses on observational research to understand trajectories of risk and resilience in children facing multiple forms of adversity while also using these research outcomes to develop and test evidence-based interventions to promote child health, development and family functioning.
Aims: The RPCA Seminar Series is a bimonthly research group/webinar with aims to i) Increase the regional knowledge base and capacity for implementation research ii) build a stronger mutual learning network and iii) provide training opportunities for partners tied to training grant objectives for trainees to receive formal training on data and implementation science.
