Featured Presenters

John F. Grienenberger

Keynote Address: The Birth of the Human Mind: The Critical Role of Reflective Relationships in the Social, Emotional, and Behavioural Development of Young Children
Friday, February 3, 2012
9:00 am - 10:00 am

John F. Grienenberger, Ph.D., received his doctorate in Clinical Psychology from City University of New York (CUNY). Heis Co-Executive Director of the Center for Reflective Parenting in Los Angeles where he is also the Director and Founder of the Reflective Parenting Program. He has authored numerous papers, presentations, and training programs in the areas of attachment research, parental reflective functioning, parenting, and child psychotherapy research. Along with Arietta Slade, he helped develop the first measure of parental reflective functioning (PRF). Dr. Grienenberger also has a private practice in West Los Angeles.

Evelyn Wotherspoon

Plenary Session: Ordinary Magic: Building Resilience in Children
Friday, February 3, 2012
10:30 am - 11:30 am

Ms. Wotherspoon is a social worker and Zero To Three fellow who has devoted her career to high-risk children and families. For the last decade she has been providing infant mental health consultations to child welfare workers, lawyers, and judges in Calgary. Evelyn has authored papers on the needs of vulnerable infants and toddlers for a variety of publications and has given presentations on infants at risk to audiences throughout the US and Canada. She has 25 years of experience working with high-risk children and families in mental health, child development and child protection settings. She is currently in private practice.

Wendy Edey

Plenary Session: Audacious Hope In the Early Years: Did the Experts Say?
Saturday, February 4, 2012
8:30 am - 9:30 am

Wendy Edey has spent much of her career developing ways to make hope theory practical and relevant. She is a member of a dedicated team whose long-standing efforts have refined a body of knowledge known as Hope and strengths Tools for Counselling and Group Work. She is a supporting author of Nurturing Hopeful Souls, a book of strategies for working with children and youth. She is the co-founder of the International Database of Hope Research Literature, the author of THE HOPE LADY Blog, and a sessional lecturer in educational psychology. Beyond that, she is a counselling psychologist whose work integrates hope, humour and storytelling. Her efforts have earned an honorary doctorate from St. Stephen’s College, a practice award from the Canadian Counselling Association, and recognition as one of Global Televisions Women of Vision.

Wendy is a blind person who was born on an Alberta farm at a time when there were few services for students with disabilities. She believes that language and symbols play an important role in shaping our personal and professional experiences. She and her husband David are the parents of two special education teachers and a hard-working guy whose abilities have been shaped by FASD.

W. Thomas Boyce

Closing Keynote: What the Genes Remember: The New Epigenetics of the Early Years
Saturday, February 4, 2012
3:00 pm – 4:00pm

Tom Boyce is the Sunny Hill Health Centre/BC Leadership Chair in Child Development at the University of British Columbia. He is also Co-Director of the Experience-Based Brain and Biological Development Program of the Canadian Institute for Advanced Research and a member of the Institute of Medicine and Harvard University’s National Scientific Council on the Developing Child. As a social epidemiologist and a developmental-behavioral pediatrician, his research addresses how genetic, neural and psychosocial processes work together to lead to differences in childhood disease across different socioeconomic groups. His work has shown how psychological stress and neurobiological reactivity to aversive social contexts interact to produce disorders of both physical and mental health in populations of children. Dr. Boyce completed his baccalaureate degree in philosophy and psychology at Stanford University and an MD at Baylor College of Medicine. He then did pediatric residency training at the University of California, San Francisco and was named a Robert Wood Johnson Foundation Clinical Scholar at the University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill. Prior to his appointment at the University of British Columbia, he spent twenty years on the pediatrics and public health faculties of the University of California, San Francisco and Berkeley.

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