Consider NSG 432: Infants and Toddlers – Risk, Resilience and Relationships
Offered: Winter 2017 ONLY to students across campus
ONLINE 5 credit course
SLN: 18287
Description – Using an infant mental health framework, this course emphasizes:
- biological, psychological, and cultural factors that may alter developmental trajectories in pregnancy and early childhood
- the importance of early relationships in supporting competencies and mitigating risk
- how your own experience of being a child impacts you as a professional and parent
- research-based principles and approaches to supporting families, teachers and caregivers of young children
Instructors:
Colleen O. Dillon, PhD is a Clinical Associate Professor in Family and Child Nursing at the University of Washington. She is a clinical psychologist with advanced expertise in infant and early childhood mental health. She teaches in the Early Childhood and Family Studies program in the College of Education.
Miriam Hirschstein, PhD is a Senior Research Scientist in Family and Child Nursing at the University of Washington. She currently directs an evaluation partnership with Educare Early Learning Center, a model of center-based early childhood education located in White Center, Seattle.
