Campbell Paul, Assoc Prof, MBBS, FRANZCP, Cert Child Adol Child Psych

Campbell Paul is a Consultant Infant and Child Psychiatrist at the Royal Children’s Hospital Melbourne, paediatric consultation liaison psychiatry service.

He has a special interest in the understanding of the inner world of the baby and infant-parent psychotherapy. He is an Honorary Principal Fellow in the Department of Psychiatry at the University of Melbourne and has developed postgraduate training programs in infant mental health.

He is a member of the Board of Directors of the World Association for Infant Mental Health and has been a visiting psychiatrist to the Victorian Aboriginal Health Service.

Astrid Berg, MB ChB, FCPsych (SA), M Phil (Child & Adolescent Psychiatry)

Astrid Berg is a Psychiatrist, Child & Adolescent Psychiatrist and Jungian Analyst. Astrid is an Associate Professor at the University of Cape Town and a senior consultant in the Division of Child & Adolescent Psychiatry at the Red Cross Children’s Hospital in Cape Town where she heads the UCT Parent-Infant Mental Health Service. She also holds an honorary position as Associate Professor Extraordinary in the Department of Psychiatry at the University of Stellenbosch.

Astrid has been involved in working in a community in Cape Town since 1995 where she is in charge of a weekly mother-baby mental health clinic. She has written about this work and presented it extensively internationally. Her interest is in the psychodynamics of the first relationships in life, as well as articulating the challenges and opportunities of living in a cultural diverse country.

She has recently published a book “Connecting with South Africa – cultural communication and understanding”.

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Jane Barlow, DPhil, FFPH Hon

Jane Barlow (DPhil, FFPH Hon) is Professor of Evidence Based Intervention in the Early Years at the Department of Social Policy and Intervention, University of Oxford. Jane’s main research interest is the role of early parenting in the aetiology of mental health problems, and the evaluation of interventions aimed at improving parenting practices during pregnancy and the postnatal period. She also undertakes research to evaluate the effectiveness of interventions aimed at preventing child abuse.

She is currently President of AIMH UK, and a member of PreVAiL (Preventing Violence Across the Lifespan).

Hisako Watanabe. M.D., Ph.D.

Hisako Watanabe is a child psychiatrist in Japan, with medical training in pediatrics, psychiatry, neurology and psychoanalytic psychotherapy. She was trained at the Tavistock Clinic in the early 90’s, and has integrated Western trans-disciplinary, neurobiological and psychodynamic approaches with Japanese concept of Amae. (Amae is a concept referring to the affective, non-verbal mental wellness activated within the infant-caregiver relationship.) She developed innovative comprehensive approaches to resolve divergent psychosocial problems of children and families in rapidly industrializing yet deeply traditional society of Japan. Her Amae therapy empowers the primary caregiver by inducing intuitive parenting, facilitated by the child’s attachment needs, and leading to a new encounter with reciprocity and affect attunement.

On her return from London to Yokohama in 1994, she established a community-based NPO organization for people with schizophrenia, named ‘Mind Club,’ which has established three workplaces, two group homes and one café that sells baked goods made by the individuals with psychiatric illnesses. During her 20 years in the pediatric department at the Keio University Hospital, she has applied infant mental health principles in her training of 330 pediatricians to address emergent issues in the rapidly industrializing Japanese society, such as transgenerational transmission of psychopathology in eating disorders, and mothers with postnatal depression, prematurely born, low-birth weight infants,infants born with multiple anomalies and diseases.

In 1997, she founded the FOUR WINDS (Forum Of Universal Research for the Workings of Infant and Neonatal Developmental Support), a nation-wide forum for Japanese professionals working with infants and their families. She has led FOUR WINDS’ activities to gather together Infant Mental Health professionals to create the culture of ongoing shared learning. The 20 years of work accumulated through the FOUR WINDS activities served as the foundation for the newly established Japanese Association for Infant Mental Health. In 2008, Watanabe chaired the organization of the 11th World Congress of WAIMH, the first ever to be held in Asia.

Immediately after the Great East Japan Earthquake on March 11, 2011, she reached out to City of Koriyama in Fukushima, devastated by radiation contamination by the nuclear plant accident and set up a multidisciplinary community team, named the Koriyama Post-disaster Child Care Project (KPCCP). With a relationship-based, trauma-informed, family-focused approach, the project has enhanced the morale of parents and community workers through activities of traditional play and picture book reading that had traditionally been embedded in the local community culture. This led to the successful opening of Pep-Kids Koriyama, the largest indoor playground in the Northeastern Japan, providing a place for families with young children to come and gather, where they are protected from the threat of radiation outdoors. The indoor playground has been visited by more than 2 million children and parents.

In 2014, Watanabe was given the WAIMH Award, and in 2016, she was elected as an Executive Board Member of the WAIMH. Watanabe continues to work to bring perspectives of families and professionals in Asia and other parts of the world to diversify the voices represented in IMH work. She believes in the wisdom of the workers on the ground from many parts of the world unrepresented by the Members of the Board, and hopes to continue to reach out to learn from their voices. One of her most recent work includes her outreach visit to Bangladesh, where she witnessed a creative and well- grounded humanitarian work in infant mental health. She observed families, despite having been geographically dislocated from their homeland and having experienced adversity, being supported to use play, music and narratives to preserve their traditional culture. Watanabe believes that the WAIMH community and the field of Infant Mental Health can be improved by increasing the diversity of voices and representation, and by addressing institutionalized racism and oppression She hopes to continue learning from families and professionals of under-represented regions of the world.

Catherine Maguire B.A.(Hons)Psych, M.Psych.Sc.(Clin.Psych.) IMH-E®

Catherine Maguire, is a Chartered Clinical Psychologist and an Endorsed Infant Mental Health Mentor. She is an Adjunct Lecturer at the School of Applied Psychology at University College Cork, where she is also a PhD candidate.

Catherine is currently on secondment from the national Health Service Executive to an Area Based Childhood Programme in Cork city where she leads an Infant Health and Wellbeing Programme for the pre-birth to three populations. Her specific interests include the establishment and evaluation of infant mental health programmes and building and consolidating interdisciplinary workforce capacity. She provides master classes locally and nationally and is the co-creator of Infant Mental Health Network Groups, a process driven group learning environment developed to facilitate the consolidation and integration of core skills and competencies into frontline practice.

Chaya Kulkarni, BAA, M.Ed., EdD

Dr. Chaya Kulkarni is the Director of Infant Mental Health Promotion (IMHP) at The Hospital for Sick Children, a national organization which improves outcomes across the lifespan through translating and promoting the science of early mental health into practice with families during pregnancy, infancy, and early childhood. Dr. Kulkarni has over 25 years of experience in a number of leadership roles including frontline service delivery, policy analysis, research, and curriculum and resource development. Prior to joining IMHP, she was VP, Parent and Professional Education at Invest in Kids, and has also served as Senior Policy Analyst and Researcher for the Office of the Official Opposition, Queen’s Park. Dr. Kulkarni is an adviser to Dolly Parton’s Imagination Library and a member of the Board at Family Day Care Services.

Kai von Klitzing, PhD, MD

Kai von Klitzing, MD, borne 1954, married to Walli, three daughters. Professor of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry, Director of the Department of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry, Psychotherapy, and Psychosomatics at the University of Leipzig, Germany, Psychoanalyst, Member of the Swiss Psychoanalytical Society and German Psychoanalytical Association/IPA, Training Analyst, Editor of the Journal Kinderanalyse/Child Analysis, Board Member of WAIMH since 2004, host of the 2010 WAIMH congress in Leipzig.

Professional career: education in Child Psychiatry, Pediatrics, and Adult Psychiatry in Germany, 1988 – 1997 Child Psychiatrist at the Children’s Hospital in Basel, Switzerland (with Dieter Bürgin); 1997 – 1998 Visiting Researcher at the Program for Early Developmental Studies (with Robert Emde), 1999 – 2006 Professor for Child and Adolescent Psychiatry University of Basel, Switzerland; since 2006 Chair of Child Psychiatry at the University of Leipzig, Germany.

Scientific interests: Developmental psychopathology, early triadic relationships (mother – father – infant), children’s narratives, psychotherapy (individual and family), neurobiology. Kai von Klitzing has published many clinical and empirical papers in German, French and English (e.g. two papers on the role of fathers and triadic development in the IMHJ) and books on immigrant children, psychotherapy in (early) childhood, and attachment disorders.