Webinar with LENA: How Responsive Interactions Support Early Mental Health

What are the most effective, accessible, achievable ways to nurture infant and early childhood mental health/social and emotional well-being in young children? As anyone who has ever cared for a young child well knows, this is a question that deserves a lot more attention.

In this webinar, a panel of experts and advocates will discuss a range of important questions around infant and early childhood mental health/social and emotional well-being, including…

• What role does a child’s environment play in social and emotional well-being?
• Within that environment, what role do responsive relationships with adults play?
• Within those responsive relationships, what role do conversational turns, or serve-and-return interactions, play?
• What are some innovative policy and advocacy efforts we can take to support infant and early childhood mental health?

Panelists

• Jodi Whiteman: Director of Partnerships and Growth, LENA
• Esteban-Gomez-Muzzio: Executive Director, Fundación América por la Infancia
• Kathryn Humphreys: Director, Stress and Early Adversity Lab, Vanderbilt University
• Kathleen Mulrooney: Director, Infant and Early Childhood Mental Health (IECMH) Strategy-Program, ZERO TO THREE
• Kaitlin Mulcahy: Director, Center for Autism and Early Childhood Mental Health, Montclair State University

Register and learn more about the webinar hosted by Lena here.

This event has passed, but you can still watch a recording of the webinar on the Lena website.