

Dr Catherine Corker
71 posts

@catcorker
Clinical Psychologist & Clinical Lead for Wigan Building Attachments & Bonds. Passionate about early intervention and parent-infant approaches





Many parents are being told they can spend only two hours a day on neonatal wards while their babies fight for life – and some hospitals are limiting daily visits to just one parent. These findings come from our recent COVID-19 survey. Read more: buff.ly/2U9vtCs






Babies are unable to talk about their feelings and needs, but communicate these in different ways. Practitioners need to be able read babies’ pre-verbal cues and to work with parents, babies and their relationships. Parent-infant work is uniquely challenging #IMHAW19 @AIMH_UK











By 2030 we want Specialised parent-infant relationship teams available across the UK, supporting all families who need them. We hope our report will inform the conversations & actions required to achieve this goal by local and national decision-makers #rarejewels #IMHAW19



Our ground breaking report launched today, sets out 12 recommendations to UK nations on ways to improve the provision of specialised parent-infant relationship teams and wider support so all #earlyrelationships get the help they need bit.ly/2WgWHpb #rarejewels #IMHAW19