18th World Congress for the World Association for Infant Mental Health
Early Relationships Matter: Advancing Practice, Policy and Research in Infant Mental Health
15-19 July 2023
Dublin, Ireland
Abstract submission now open
Scientific and clinical abstracts are invited under the following presentation submission categories:
- Brief Oral Presentation
- Poster Presentation
- Poster workshop
- Workshop
- Symposium
- Video presentation
- Find out more about each of the categories here.
Authors wishing to submit either a clinical or scientific abstract are requested to submit a maximum of 300 words (excluding the title, authors and affiliations) through the online submission portals on the Congress website www.waimh2023.org/abstracts-2/, under one of the following themes:
- Advocacy and infant mental health policy
- Antenatal and perinatal practices
- Attachment: research, security of attachment and disorders of attachment
- Caregiving contexts
- Cross cultural studies – Global strategies for infants, families and communities
- Early development, child health and mental health
- Evaluation and outcomes: scientific studies and early interventions
- Infant mental health services, training, teaching, supervision and consultation
- Observation and assessment: diagnosis, treatment and clinical issues
- Parent-infant interaction and early relationship development
- Parenting and family process
- Prematurity and high-risk infants
- Problems, symptoms and disorders of the infant
- Problems with parenting and high risk families (e.g. adolescent parenting, parental substance abuse, family violence and child abuse)
- Promotion and prevention in community context
- Ethical responses to cultural diversity, equity and racism
Submission deadline extended to Monday 14 November 2022.
