Warwick Infant and Family Wellbeing Unit
Infant Mental Health Online (IMHOL)
Until Infant Mental Health Online (IMHOL) there was no standardised training in infant mental health in the United Kingdom for front line professionals who work with babies/children and their families. Infant Mental Health Online (IMHOL) was designed to address this need.
Parent Infant Interaction Observation Scale (PIIOS)
The PIIOS is a validated, easy to use tool, designed with the front line practitioner in mind to assess parent-infant interaction between 2 - 7 months. The PIIOS has been developed to meet the need for a short, easily accessible screening tool to assess parental attunement for professionals such as health visitors, midwives, nursery nurses, social workers and psychologists.
Dawn Cannon
Director of Warwick Infant and Family Wellbeing Unit (WIFWu)
Director of Infant Mental Health Online (IMHOL)
Research
WIFWU is undertaking a programme of research focused on evaluating new ways of working to support parenting during pregnancy and the first two years of life.
Training
WIFWU offers a selection of training to a wide range of primary care and early years practitioners
Innovation
This strand of work will develop new interventions to support parenting during pregnancy and the first two years of life
- Bring together key individuals in the field of infant development
- Develop and extend training programmes for early years and primary care practitioners
- Integrate work arising from research across a range of disciplines and fields including infant mental health obesity; fatherhood and mental health
- Generate new publications.
UK Association of Infant Mental Health