New Center for Psychoanalysis Community Collaboration

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Center for Reflective Parenting
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There's More to Parenting

To flourish, children need relationships that provide a sense of safety and empathy. A secure relationship with a parent can provide lifelong benefits for the child. Essential elements of a secure relationship include attachment, attunement and reflective functioning. These psychoanalytic ideas help parents support their child's cognitive development and psychological wellbeing.

Center for Reflective Parenting (CRP) is comprised of mental health professionals, community leaders, and community agencies working together to promote the healthy growth and development of children and families. We believe community support is essential for well- functioning families, the basic unit of all societies. CRP is committed to an interdisciplinary approach to child, parent and family mental health services.

Center for Reflective Parenting is actively involved with the following programs:

Reflective Parenting Program offers an innovative approach to parenting. Individuals learn to be strong, effective parents while remaining sensitive and responsive to their child's needs. The curriculum-led Reflective Parenting Workshop helps parents understand the often subtle, nonverbal cues that accompany a child's behavior as meaningful communications - a skill that facilitates healthy development and secure attachments. CRP also trains mental health professionals who then take this exciting and successful program to the families they serve.
Mindful Parenting Groups are weekly experiential, interactive groups designed to enhance parents' capacity to "read" their babies' and/or toddlers' cues and communications. Each group creates the conditions for parents to experience, cultivate, and practice the art of mindful curiosity about their own and their infant's experience while also addressing practical concerns about behavioral and emotional issues typical of infants and toddlers. This mindful approach is shown to increase parents' reflective capacity, which in turn supports secure parent-infant attachment and healthy child development. CRP also trains mental health professionals who then implement this innovative program with the families they serve.

Reflective Parenting workshops are currently offered at Family Service of Santa Monica, New Center for Psychoanalysis and other community sites.

John Grienenberger, Ph.D. & Diane Reynolds, MFT, Co-Executive Directors